DFG Tutors
- Posted: 4th Mar 2010
The DFG Tutors
Simon Aeppli
Simon is an editor and filmmaker with a background in Artist's Film and Video. He is a lecturer at the University of the Creative Arts, University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, and has also been a media educator in London at the Institute of Education ARCO PLUS, WAC performing Arts and Media College, The Place, and New Vic College. He has also worked as a speaker with the British Council and the East London Moving Image Initiative, London.
His filmography includes: The Truth Truck, Five, DFG Films 2006; The Grand Prix Priest, ITV London, DFG Films 2005; Star Radio, Artist in residence Cardiff, Wales 2005; Eden 2003/04, Artist Film and Video Development & Completion Award 2004, Film London; Terra Firma 2002 in collaboration with choreographer Nic Sandiland, Arts Council of England Capture2 Commission.
Lucy Baxter
Lucy is Founder and Managing Director of Mandrake Films and has worked as producer, executive/series producer, producer/director and production manager on short films, feature films, drama series and documentaries for broadcasters such as BBC, ITV, Sky and Ch4 two of which, L8r and Holloway Hairdo have won BAFTA, RTS and Silver awards. Lucy has produced two short fiction films, and been Series Producer and Producer/Director on current affairs docs for Channel 5, Current TV, More4 News and a cross platform Live Heart Surgery broadcast for the Wellcome Trust, BBC and Guardian online. Recently she created a Specialist Factual series for the US market and series and exec produced Fistula Hospital and Saving the Women for Al Jazeera English.
Aswell as the DFG, Lucy also teaches documentary production at the London Film Academy and Queen Mary, University of London.
Bob Bentley
Bob Bentley works in documentaries, arts, history, science and drama. Recently he produced/directed two programmes in the BBC2 series British Film Forever. Before that he wrote/directed/produced two Battlefield Detectives for The US History Channel, two programmes in the BBC series Private Life of a Masterpiece and two drama/docs for the BBC and Bravo. At the Millennium he directed nine drama/doc inserts for Art Crime 2020 - A History of the Future for CNN.
Other notable productions include A Bard on the Box with Adrian Noble of the RSC an Omnibus on opera legend Jessye Norman and a profile of singer Dame Janet Baker. For the Sake of the Children was about photography of children for the C4’s series Films of Fire. Science documentaries include Blind Visions, about sight loss.
Christina Burnett
Christina Burnett is one of Europe's leading film and TV trainers, specialising in proposal development/ pitching and career strategy/business skills. Working closely with commissioning editors, she has trained industry professionals in 15 countries - from Sweden to South Africa - for organisations including Channel 4, Scottish Television, PACT/ITF, most of the UK Screen Agencies, the European Documentary Network, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI), the Television Business School, the Council of Europe and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), as well as leading UK production companies.
Anton Califano is a creative and multi-skilled filmmaker who has won several awards. He has been making films since the mid-90’s, originally training as an editor. His experience in filmmaking includes working on feature films, television documentary and drama. Anton has recently completed directing a feature length documentary about a Labour Party political activist.
His short films have been shown at many film festivals worldwide. His editing work includes working on award-winning features and shorts - and has worked on many of the films produced by DFG & Mosaic Films including Channel 4's Made In India & Britain Recut, BBC Storyville / Rowntree Foundation, Why Poverty? shorts, and Science on Film and ISIS series of shorts.
For the last five years Anton has supported new and emerging talent as the Executive Producer on the Eastern Edge Film Fund co-funded by Film London. The fund spans three East London boroughs and aims to provide a stepping stone for new and emerging filmmakers.
Anton has over ten year's experience of delivering professional training in practical film and video production. For the last five years he has been delivering training for us at the DFG. Anton is an Apple Certified Pro in FCP 7 and has previously delivered intensive on-the-job editing training (through DFG) to BBC news & current affairs editors. Other teaching includes Masters level courses at the University of the Arts, London (LCC) and at Brunel university, as well as having delivered workshops in Abu Dhabi, Poland, Portugal, Iran and Argentina.
Clare Cameron
Clare Cameron is a freelance documentary and development AP who has worked on variety of films for Channel 4 and the BBC. Currently based at Ronachan Films and working on a Cutting Edge, she has previously worked at the award winning October Films and North One Television. Some previous projects include The Air Hospital (2010) Cutting Edge. Ministry of Defence's C-17 Globemaster plane and elite medical staff and pilots bring injured service personnel back from Afghanistan, 18 Pregnant Schoolgirls (2009 ) BBC a documentary looking at events in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when an unusually large number of teenage girls turned up for pregnancy tests at the clinic of a school, Shannon Matthews: The Family’s Story (2008) Cutting Edge and the first series of The Family, Channel 4.
She started her career with a degree in Broadcast Journalism before entering the TV industry. Clare has taught at DFG and the Channel 4 Researcher Training Scheme. Clare's current project will be broadcast on Channel 4 later this year.
Lisa Cazzato Vieyra
Lisa is a director, editor and cinematographer of documentary films and works as a producer/camerawoman at Native Voice Films. Her most recent credit is as cinematographer for a feature documentary Bengali Detective which premiered in Sundance, Berlin and Hot Docs, Toronto film festivals 2011, Native Voice Films.
She has produced & directed a series of acclaimed short films for Channel 4, and Amnesty International, as well as prime time documentaries for Al Jazeera International set in South Asia. Born in Lecce, Southern Italy, she came to London to study and work in photography. Lisa’s background is extensive in the fashion and commercial photography industry. In 2003 she completed an MA in Fine Arts at S.Martins College of Arts and her photographic work, supported by grants from the Arts Council and awards, has been shown in London galleries as well as internationally. Lisa is currently filming with The Tate Modern Art gallery in London as well as developing her own projects.
Andy Glynne
An author, BAFTA winning filmmaker, and producer, Andy is the Managing Director of Mosaic Films, and the Founding Director of the Documentary Filmmakers Group.
Andy directs and produces documentaries both here in the UK, and around the world and is the author of the book, Documentaries and How to Make Them. As a consultant and trainer for UK broadcasters and broadcasting organisations Andy has worked with ITV, Rory Peck Trust, BBC, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Scottish Documentary Institute, University of London, University of Portsmouth, and University of the Arts.
As a Producer and Director Andy's recent credits include Animated Minds (2009), Troubled Minds, Teachers TV/ Wellcome Trust (2008), Coma - Three Minute Wonders, Channel 4 (2008), Britain Recut, Three Minute Wonder, Channel 4 (2007), Independence In 3 Mins, Series of 8 x 3” documentaries by Indian filmmakers on the themes of Independence for Channel 4 (2006) and So You Thought Your Documentary could Change the World?, BBC4/Grierson Trust.
Kate Hample is an award winning producer and director of prime time broadcast documentaries and factual programmes for BBC, Channel 4, Five, and ITV as well as a successful track record for Australian broadcasters ABC and SBS Independent. Kate also makes films for UK based and international charities abroad.
Specialising in crafting intimate, character-based portrayals of social issues as diverse as heavy metal bands, spending disorders or Holocaust survivors suffering post traumatic stress, Kate has worked in many off the beaten track locations around the globe, sef shooting, working with crew and directing presenters.
Kate's work has been screened in international festivals around the world, including Silver Docs Discovery Documentary Festival, Detroit International Documentary Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival and awarded Hors Concours in the Banff Television Festival 2007 and Creative East Awards Best Broadcast Production 2007.
Dylan Howitt
Dylan Howitt began making films on Super 8 in his teens, before studying Fine Art where he worked in photography, animation and video. He then switched to documentary making and has spent the last 14 years making scores of films all over the world mainly for TV (BBC, Channel 4, Five, Discovery, NHK and Community Channels) and NGOs. Some of his work as a Producer/Director and often also Cameraman/Editor includes Bolivia for Sale, BBC2 where actor Damien Lewis travels to Bolivia to witness first hand the impact of forced privatisation, 7 episodes of Rooted Five, in which children travel and discover where their families come from (Shortlisted for BAFTA / Royal TV society / One World Award) and Tree of Guns, BBC4 about a sculpture made of guns that symbolises the history and hopes of post war Mozambique. Other work includes The Boatman, Suits and Savages, Angola In The Frame, and Britain In Bloom. Dylan has made films all over the UK and in 30 countries worldwide.
As a tutor Dylan has taught intensive camera and directing courses at DFG, and spent a year teaching video making and photography to children in Guatemala.
Nicola Lees has been a development producer in the television industry in London and New York for more than a decade. She has developed documentaries, docudramas, multiplatform and reality programmes for BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, Discovery, Travel Channel, National Geographic and TLC. She's the author of Greenlit: Developing Factual Reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch and the founder of www.tvmole.com. Nicola currently runs a mentoring scheme for Women in Film and Television and is writing a second book, Give Me the Money and I'll Shoot.
She has written more than 370 factual television programme proposals, and has been directly involved in originating, researching, writing or pitching more than 80 commissioned programmes, including Oceans (Oceans), Moms on the Road (Travel Channel), How Not to Be Shark Bait (Discovery), Desperate Midwives (BBC3) and the BAFTA nominated Earth: Power of the Planet (BBC2/Nat Geo).
Suzanne Lynch
Suzanne is a Producer/Director/Cameraperson with over ten years experience of making prime-time documentaries and factual programmes for television including the award-winning Truly Madly Deeply Channel 4 (2006), Last Chance Kids Channel 4 (2007) which was nominated for the Grierson Documentary awards and Seven New Faces in Seven Days Five (2010) for Five’s ‘Extraordinary People’ strand.
She is currently working as a Series Producer for ITV on a factual entertainment format, managing a team of 25 production staff and supervising the editing of all forty programmes in the series.
Throughout her TV career, Suzanne has also produced and directed films for charities including the Media Trust, Macmillan Cancer Relief and CAFOD. Charity and education projects continue to be an important part of her professional practice – she has just completed a First Light funded film with pupils from culturally diverse backgrounds on the theme of ‘home’.
Between production contracts Suzanne has worked as a sessional tutor/trainer for DFG, teaching directing, camera and sound skills - she really enjoys teaching, nurturing new talent and the opportunity to reflect upon and dissect filmmaking practice.
Kerry McLeod
Kerry has worked with Mosaic Films since 2007, most recently producing London Recut: an interactive web project in partnership with Film London, the BFI National Archive and London's Screen Archives. She also produced Britain Recut, in association with the BFI and Channel 4, while other credits include Life After Coma Channel 4, Art Shorts for Tate Media and Why Poverty? UK Shorts (Joseph Rowntree Foundation for BBC Storyville). Kerry also works with DFG's sister company Mosaic Films and in 2009 she helped develop Mosaic Films' digital distribution strategy as part of the company's participation in the NESTA/ UK Film Council 'Take 12' programme.
She has spoken on the topic of building a career in documentary to a variety of audiences including students at UCA Farnham, and delegates at Forward Motion Festival Somerset, Images of Black Women Festival, Broadcast LIVE and Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Liz Mermin is a New Yorker based in London. Her films explore a range of contemporary subjects such as the lives of three abortion providers in On Hostile Ground (2001), culture-clashes between American and Afghan hairdressers in The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2004), and the links between Bollywood, gangsters, and vigilante cops in Shot In Bombay (2008). Her most recent film Horses (2010), made for the Irish Film Board, BBC/ Storyville and RTE, opened at the ICA in London Jan 2010 and was short listed for a Grierson award. As a freelance director/producer, Mermin has made TV documentaries for PBS, Sundance Channel,ABC, Discovery, Court TV, Trio, and Oxygen.
She has a bachelor’s degree in literature from Harvard University, a master's in anthropology from NYU and has written about film for a variety of journals and magazines. She was also a Fulbright scholar in Dakar, Senegal and a Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Reviewers observe that her work provides an entertaining mix of humour and social critique, without preaching or judging.
Rosa Rogers
Producer-director Rosa Rogers has established an award-winning track record in innovative programmes that have been made and shown around the world. Her interest in opening up surprising perspectives and experiences to a wide audience through compelling human stories has taken her from Rio to Mumbai; Bamako to Beijing. Films made closer to home range from a documentary about the unsolved deaths of 13 black teenagers and a profile of Britain’s most performed living playwright, to poetry and dance films and television drama.
As well as producing and directing her own films, Rosa works as a mentor, advising and training new film makers in a range of skills. She runs camera workshops, research workshops and directing workshops. She was a participant in the EsoDoc 2006 programme for European social documentary makers. In addition to her broadcast work, Rosa has worked with a number of NGOs, including Oxfam, Plan International, YMCA, Save the Children and RNID. She is a trustee of the participatory video organization, Living Lens , who use video as a tool to work with conflict resolution and with excluded groups of people in the UK and abroad.
Steve Stevenson
Steve Stevenson is an award winning editor whose work ranges widely across observational films, long-form documentaries and drama docs. His recent credits include Channel 4's Human Zoo (2009) and the BBC2 series Extreme Pilgrim (2008) which won a Sandford St Martin Trust Award and a Royal Television Society Award for Best Network Factual Series. Other credits include George Orwell, A Life in Pictures (2004), BBC2, which earned Steve a BAFTA nomination for editing, and won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary on the Arts, and the International Emmy for Best Arts Programme. Steve has produced and directed films for the BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic, including two award-winning Equinoxes, and from time to time self-shoots environmental films for BBC World & UNESCO. Steve is a regular tutor on DFG's Grammar of Documentary Editing and at Brunel University where he teaches on the MA course in Documentary Practice.
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