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Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy - Teaching |
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Teaching StaffProf Robin MacPherson Robin is a BAFTA nominated producer and has made many broadcast documentaries as well as short dramas over the past 15 years. The most recent was Rebel Frontier, a 65-minute documentary narrated by Martin Sheen, documenting the labour struggles of Irish and Finnish miners in WW1 era. He was Development Executive at Scottish Screen from 1999-2002 before joining Napier University where he played a key role in establishing Screen Academy Scotland. Paul Holmes
James Mavor James Mavor is the Programme Leader for our post-graduate screenwriting courses. James is a working scriptwriter with wide experience and number of credits, awards and award-nominations in television, film, theatre, radio, opera and prose. Credits include television series Doctor Finlay, The Bill and Monarch of the Glen. Original dramas for television include Split Second (2000), starring Clive Owen for BBC One, and Reichenbach Falls (2007), an adaptation of an Ian Rankin short story for BBC Four. A short story, Brittle, was published in Work - New Scottish Writing 2007 (Polygon). Current work includes Disco, a short film being made in collaboration with Screen Academy staff and students. A feature film Sinner, is an adaptation of The Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg which James is co-writing with Ian Rankin. The script is in development with the UK Film Council and Scottish Screen.
Oscar Van Heek Oscar recently produced the feature film Blinded starring Peter Mullan and Jodhi May. He regularly works as a freelance script editor and assessor for Welsh media agency SGRIN and the Irish Film Board. Prior to setting up his own company, Oscar was Director of Development for Scottish Screen, commissioning and script editing screenplays by both new and established writers producers and directors, including Gillies MacKinnon, Craig Ferguson, and Saul Metzstein. During this period Oscar also attended and tutored at several training programs as well as originating, financing and managing FIRST DRAFT - a scheme set up for first time feature writers to develop screenplays with the help of experienced script editors. Mark Grindle Mark has written, script edited, produced and executive produced over 200 hours of film and television in the US and UK. He trained at the UCLA Graduate Screenwriting programme before working in development for Columbia Pictures. He was executive producer on the Scottish Screen/Scottish Television BAFTA-nominated and RTS award-winning New Found Land drama series David Griggs David has a background in Visual Anthropology, Documentary Production and Web Design. He has produced and directed docmentaries in Lesotho, RSA and recently has consulted in Web based productions for Health Online Project and JISC as well as producing a short documentary for Learning and Teaching Scotland. Presently he is involved in the production of 'Word Made Flesh' a series of interviews directed by Devlin Crow for the MS Society. He was the researcher for Media Masters Online and continues his interests in online pedagogy in his role as Learning Technologist. For the last 2 years he has been lecturing on the subject of interactivity, focusing on Virtual Worlds, Alternate Reality Games, Pervasive Gaming and Web 2.0 tools. |
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