The School of Film & Television Guest Lectures

The School of Film & Television's programme of masterclasses and workshops brings high-profile film, television, visual effects and animation practitioners and scholars to Falmouth to deliver talks to our undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Billed as career masterclasses and embedded in the curriculum, the series encourages students to think about roles across film, television, animation and beyond. Each speaker provides an insight into what it takes to be a successful member of the professional film and television community. Our guests speak to all aspects of development and production, and often run workshops.

Selected visitors include Academy Award-winners James Mather (Top Gun: Maverick, Mission Impossible) and Johnnie Burn (The Zone of Interest) and Mark Ulano (Killers of the Flower Moon, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). We’ve had cinematographers Laurie Rose (Archive, Rebecca) and Vanessa Whyte (Ted Lasso) through our doors, brilliant editors including Adam Gough (Editor, Da 5 Bloods, Roma) and Jasmine John (Black Women in Post Production, dubbing mixer Emma Butt (Nightsleeper, Year of the Dog), production designer Joel Collins (Doctor Who, His Dark Materials, Black Mirror), legendary title designer Dan Perri (Star Wars), not to mention an array of award-winning producers including Dionne Walker (The Hard Stop), Emily Morgan (Chevalier, I Am Not a Witch, Supernova), and Kat Mansoor (Cow, Rebellion). 

We celebrate indie filmmaking at Falmouth. An array of celebrated writers and directors have visited including; Jon Glazer (The Zone of Interest, Under the Skin), Alice Lowe (Timestalkers, Prevenge), Felicity Evans (His House), Sarah Gavron (Rocks), Ruth Paxton (A Banquet, Shetland), Prano Bailey Bond (Censor), Tyler Taormina (Ham on Rye), Ben Wheatley (Generation Z, Meg 2, A Field in England), Rob Savage (The Boogeyman, Host, Dash Cam), Anna Biller (The Love Witch), Lucy Brydon (Body of Water), Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller, and Christine Molloy (Kin, Baltimore, Rose Plays Julie).

We have a number of regular visitors to the school including prosthetics designer Neill Gorton (Dune: Prophecy, John Wick), Intimacy Coordinators Ita O’Brien and Rose Ryan (We Live in Time, Beelejuice Beetlejuice, I May Destroy You), stunt coordinator Jamie Edgehall (A Quiet Place: Day One, No Time to Die), Jane Zurakoskifrom the BBC talent pool team, producer Johnny Fewings, and Tom Morgan from ENVY Post Production, as well as regular visits from our amazing alumni who work across film and television, who return each year to speak to current students.​

Our professors and honorary fellows including BAFTA winning writer/director Mark Jenkin (Enys Men, Bait), producer Mary Burke (In Camera, Saint Maud), animators Peter Lord and David Sproxton (Aardman), and director Toby Haynes (Andor, Black Mirror, Sherlock).