PG Cert Screenwriting - Online

James Mavor
Programme Leader MA Screenwriting
Contact: j.mavor@napier.ac.uk

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.

Brian McGill
Course Tutor
info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk

Brian has written for several television series, including Taggart (Scottish Television), A and E (Thames) and Call Red (Granada) as well as a TV feature film in France (La Guerre Des Moutons). He has also been commissioned to write many feature film scripts in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and the USA (for Phyllis Carlyle – co- producer of Se7en). Amongst several awards, Brian received a Scottish International Education Trust grant (aegis Sir Sean Connery) to attend NYU film school in New York. As a teacher, he has taught English and Drama at International College, Stockholm and Scriptwriting at two major media schools in Sweden: Stockholmsfilmskola and Berghs School of Communication, where he also executive produced the students’ graduation feature film.

Mark Grindle
Module Leader (Interactive Media)
info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk

Online lectures will be delivered by 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.

NB: At least one of the Saturday workshops will include a session with a Guest Speaker from the film or television industry.