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GRADUATION 2021 L-Hayes, Connor / Caocao, Henry / Carbone, Paolo / Chadha, Aviya / Cornwall, Julien / Davies, Gareth Wyn / De Ol GRADUATION 2021 Adamou, Petros / Anderson, William Michael / Arratibel, Kristina Zorita / Boykov Kotzev, Vassil / Buncelmans, Joanns / Cahill-Hayes, Connor / CaoCao, Henry / Carbone, Paolo / Chadha, Aviya / Cornwall, Julien / Davies, Gareth Wyn / de Oliveira, Vasco / Deshpande, Ronil / D’Adesky, Chelsey / D’Alverny, Servane / Elkhateeb, Norah / Feng, Shuo / Ferguson, Brianna / Gaul , Piper Katherine / Goodwyn, Hannah / Gorman, Sarah / Greenwood, Harry / GuoGuo, Jinfang / Haimovici, Shira / Hao, Zhizi / Harrison, Alexander / Helbling, Simon / Hirt, Ben / Hong, Xinyi Howe, Luke Samuel / Hughes, Anthony / Jaimes, Natalia Romero / Kaut, Jozef / Khamis, Davi / Kindrachuk, Malindi / Kumar, Rochna / Lamprecht, Natalie / Lazović, Nicholas / Lewis, Alannah / Liang, Naixin / Lin, Shijun / Lopez, Diana / Lozano Wulf , Maria Isabel / Magalhães, Miguel / MaMa, Guyuan / Manjuvil, Shyam / Manuel, Rafael / Marrazzo, Angela / Maziere, Paul / McFarland, Sam T. / Meng, Gen / Montague, Andrew Paul / Méder, Támas Apor / Ng, ET / Nobre, Gabriela Nemésio / Ogden, Ewan / O’Connor, Sarah-Kate / Pan, Lauren Yue / Pantò, Nadjana Nerina Patricia, Xenia / Pensa, Prospero / Qamar, Muzna / Renaudeau, Loula / Ribeiro, Gonçalo / Roberts, Cam / Robinson, Nailah / Rudiman, Adriano / Sabiri, Anisa / Sequeira, Antonio / Shears, Molly / Song, Junyi / Sordi, Ludovica / Souchet, Elicia / Stairs, Kathleen / Streffer, Elisabeth Tang, Mengdan / Tennant, Flora / Thorsdottir, Thorey / Trefusis, James Fane / Trezzolani, Davide / Trotter, Scott / Tseng, Ying-ju / Vees, Tobias / Vorotniuk, Anastasiia / Wan, Xi Kun / Wang, Xiaoyu / Wang, Zhiyi / Whitehorn, Daniel J. / Wilson-Flynn, Alexander / Woolcott, Erik / Xing, Kun Xu, Shengnan / Yang, Jiyue / Yoshida, Taiyo / Zhang, Hui / Zhang, Qihui / Zhang, Xiaoyu / Zhang, Xinyi / Zhou, Jiahong / Zhou, Leshu / Zhu, Yiri / Zuniga, Luis Felipe Contents Welcome 004 A message from our Chair 006 Honorary Associates 008 MA Filmmaking 016 MA Screenwriting 110 MA International Film Business 182 LFS Open 234 Alumni 238 Equal Opportunities 240 Sponsors 242 Thank You 244 CREDITS Design: Rabbit Hole Photography: Katie Garner, Cat Garcia and Theron Seow 3 CONTENTS LFS GRADUATION 2021 Ordinarily, London Film School would screen its participants in Serial Eyes, and another is a Best Feature graduates’ films at one of London’s most iconic film Screenplay Winner from the Mallorca Film Festival. institutions and blend the experience late into the evening Perhaps the greatest achievement of all can be seen with workshops and general merriment. The need for us collectively. I admit even I have been wonderfully to move our Graduate Showcase online this year was, surprised at London Film School’s strength of spirit – at quite honestly, difficult to face: all of us wish to be with one how quickly it accepted, adapted, and thrived within another in person right now, to congratulate, wish well, circumstances as severe, restricting, and in some cases catch up, and, in some cases, see peers and tutors for devastating as these. Despite everything, 60 films have Welcome possibly the final time. For this reason, it was essential to been produced thanks to the caution and tenacity of my commit fully to accept our circumstances and, as humans wonderful team of staff and our students who are nothing strive to do best, adapt. We created the website to but full of energy and consideration of their peers. showcase our graduates’ work to the global film industry, and we are delighted by the result and reels of positive At London Film School, we are leaders in introducing feedback we have since received. both international talent and best practice to the UK and global film industries. We are dedicated to fostering Despite a global pandemic, our achievements since creative freedom while instilling craft excellence, and are the start of the year have not thinned. Films created at grateful for all the help we continue to receive from our London Film School have screened at 129 international various partners and friends across the industry to make film festivals, including Berlinale, Camerimage, this so. Each of you have a second home with us here, Encounters, and BFI London Film Festival, and 23 online or in person when it is once again safe to do so. We awards have been won, including the Silver Bear Jury live in a confused world. With the pandemic coming at a Prize for Short Film at the Berlinale, the 2020 UFVF time of climate change, political uncertainty, institutional / Kodak Excellence in Filmmaking Grant, the Grand discrimination, and so many other challenges, the path Prix at Encounters, the Best Student Film at the In The ahead is clouded. More than ever, we need clarity. We Palace Short Film Festival, and the BSC Short Film need hope. As filmmakers, I am remarkably proud of the Cinematography Student Prize. dedication and contribution we make to the world around us, and the stories we create to guide us through the fog. Graduation film Bastard made it to the semi-finals of the Student Academy Awards (this is the third year in a row To our dear graduates, and all of those who joined us we have had a grad film shortlisted), and we have two online for Graduate Showcase 2021, I wish you all the best. graduation films longlisted for the British Independent The future is yours to make. Film Awards, Summer Shade and Filipiñana. Our alumni have premiered at Rotterdam, Toronto, and Locarno, been part of an Emmy-award winning VFX team, nominated for a Goya Award, and won several awards at the Venice Biennale. From our MA Screenwriting course, an alumna has been longlisted for Best Debut Screenwriter, we have Hello, and welcome to our Graduate Showcase 2021 booklet. The films, scripts, and project proposals you’ll find here are collectively extraordinary, and I personally promise you will be Gisli Snaer delighted, moved, and thrilled throughout. Director and Chief Executive Officer 4 WELCOME 5 WELCOME LFS GRADUATION 2021 The value of the creative industries to the UK economy is growing at a tremendous rate and more than two million people in Britain are now working in these industries – that’s one in ten of the working population. London Film School, the longest-standing film school in the UK, is renowned around the world as a home for emerging talent A message and, as a result, we believe our students are particularly well placed to benefit from this worldwide growth in film from our Chair production. Many of them will find they are in the right place at the right time. But, as an educational institution, this boom offers opportunities, and we cannot stand still. To allow us to seize upon this growth in our industry, we’re planning to move to a new centre at London City Island where LFS can grow its network of support for film talent and the growth of the film industry worldwide. This is an exciting time for our industry, but it is also an exciting time for the School. This is a particularly good time for our students to be joining the film industry. Thanks, in part, to the coming of the internet downloading services provided by the likes of Netflix, Disney, Apple, Google and Amazon the industry is booming worldwide and is doing particularly well in Britain. The existing film studios in Britain are full, and brand-new studios are planned for Elstree and Dagenham to try to help meet the demand for studio space. I Greg Dyke believe this boom will continue. Chair of the Board 6 A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIR 7 A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIR LFS GRADUATION 2021 WRITER/DIRECTOR/ACTOR Kasi Lemmons BIO Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 1997 feature directorial debut, Eve’s Bayou, was recently inducted into the National Film Registry and is considered among the first to showcase the beauty of African American Southern culture. The film received the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, and the National Board of Review bestowed her with a special first-time director award. Her fifth feature film, Harriet, a deeply resonant and to her formidable body of work with her featured libretto powerful drama based on the life of American icon in the operatic adaptation of Charles Blow’s New York Harriet Tubman, received Academy Award nominations Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, in the categories of Best Actress (Cynthia Erivo) and written by Academy-Award nominated composer Terence Best Original Song. As an actor, Lemmons appeared in Blanchard for the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Fire such notable films as Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Shut Up in My Bones will open The Metropolitan Opera ACCOLADES Lambs, John Woo’s Hard Target, and Spike Lee’s School 2021-22 season, making history as the first opera by a Daze. Lemmons has worked extensively as a mentor and Black composer to appear on the Met stage. Lemmons ON HER OWN GROUND (2021 (TV Mini-Series) (filming)) / WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT (2021 (TV Series) (1 episode)) / educator, and currently serves as an Arts Professor in the is currently adapting and directing Maaza Mengiste’s SELF MADE: INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MADAM C.J. WALKER (2020 (TV Mini-Series)) / HARRIET (2019) / LUKE CAGE Graduate Film Department at New York University’s Tisch novel The Shadow King for the big screen with Atlas (2018 (TV Series) (1 episode)) / SHOTS FIRED (2017 (TV Series) (1 episode)) / BLACK NATIVITY (2013) / TALK TO ME School of the Arts. Lemmons recently added librettist Entertainment producing. (2007) / THE CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE (2001) / Eve’s Bayou (1997) / DR. HUGO (1996 (Short)) 8 HONORARY ASSOCIATES 9 HONORARY ASSOCIATES LFS GRADUATION 2021 ACTOR/WRITER Marianne Jean-Baptiste BIO Marianne Jean-Baptiste is an award-winning actor, director, writer, and composer, known for Without a Trace, Secrets & Lies and Spy Game. ACCOLADES IN FABRIC ((Sheila) Rook Films (Freefire); Dir. Peter Strickland ) / PETER RABBIT ((General Manager) Sony Animation; Dir.
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