Josh Appignanesi is a writer/director. Across his five feature films and many shorts, videos and commercials, he's worked with talent including John Malkovich, Tom Hiddleston, David Tennant, Claudia Jessie and Michelle Dockery, writers like Zadie Smith and John Berger, musicians like OMD and Orlando Weeks, and Turner-Prize winning artist Martin Creed.

His most recent feature was HUSBAND (In Competition, Edinburgh Film Festival 2022), before which his internationally released features included the surrealist psychothriller FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL premiering at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and THE NEW MAN, the acclaimed feature documentary, with Devorah Baum.

He also directed the award-winning comedy feature THE INFIDEL, starring Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Matt Lucas, Miranda Hart and Archie Panjabi, scripted by David Baddiel.

His debut feature was psychological drama SONG OF SONGS (BIFA nominated, In Competition Rotterdam/ Cannes/ACID), and he co-wrote Sarah Jessica Parker rom-com ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME. 

A BAFTA and BIFA jury member, he sits and advises on various industry bodies, and has taught at London Film School, the Met Film School, Guardian Masterclasses, Film London and Roehampton University where he convenes the BA in Film Production.

www.joshappignanesi.com

Professor Michael Witt’s main teaching and research interests lie in the fields of experimental filmmaking, documentary, essay films and video essays, film history and theory, and French cinema.

He has worked closely with many national and international cultural institutions, and curated major film seasons devoted to documentary, experimental cinema, and the films of Jean-Luc Godard for London-based venues such as BFI Southbank and Tate Modern.

Professor Witt holds a PhD in film and television studies and has taught film at Roehampton for over 25 years. In 2017, he looked back on his experience of supporting Roehampton students to create digital audio-visual essays as part of their studies in an illustrated article published in the online European film/media journal NECSUS.

He has published several books on aspects of cinema history, as well as film reviews, articles and interviews in magazines such as Sight and Sound.

He has a particular interest in Godard’s work, and is the author of Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (Indiana University Press, 2013), which was awarded the 2014 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book. His other books include The French Cinema Book, co-edited with Michael Temple (2nd edition, BFI Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2018).

https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/michael-witt

Dr Jermyn has presented her work to a range of international public, media, and academic audiences, from the BFI Southbank to the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.

She is an author and editor of 11 books engaging with popular film and media in varied ways, including analyses of real-crime TV, audience studies, the growth of reality television, and contemporary celebrity culture.

Many of her teaching and writing interests have focused on women filmmakers, including the books Nancy Meyers (2017) and Hollywood Transgressor: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow (2003), with current projects examining the films of Gina Prince-Bythewood and Nicole Holofcener.

In recent years, she has been internationally recognised for her work on ageing/society/media which extends across both fiction and documentary film to encompass advertising, social media and digital platforms.

Dr Jermyn came to academia from a background in media publishing, press and publicity and, in addition to being part of the BA Film Production team, she is Deputy Research Degrees Convenor for the School of Arts and Digital Industries at Roehampton. 

Read more about Deborah’s work at: https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/deborah-jermyn 

Dr Tinel-Temple was educated in France and has been teaching in UK universities for over a decade. She teaches courses about film and screen cultures focusing notably on independent, alternative and experimental practices.

She also encourages and supervises students in their individual and creative practice, using all type of formats, including audio-visual essays, music videos, video installations, and the innovative re-use of archival material.

An active researcher, she has published books on self-portrait in the moving-image, notably on early video works, and articles on the creative use of found footage and self-reflexive films.

Dr Tinel-Temple organises film-related events, with her first experience being for the Cannes Film Festival, where she supervised the promotion and distribution of short works by emerging filmmakers.

Since then, Dr Tinel-Temple has collaborated with LUX in London and Light Cone in Paris to curate programmes, and co-organised study days and screenings in 8mm and 16mm for Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image.

More recently, Dr Tinel-Temple organised UK premiere screenings of the work of Jacques Perconte and his Digital Landscapes.

Dr Chevalier's main expertise lies in the field of French Cinema, Transnational Cinema, Visual Arts and Aesthetics, Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Creativity, as well as Filmmaking.

She has extensive experience in teaching low-budget filmmaking, film history and criticism, transcreation, transnational creative project and screenwriting at underground/postgraduate level.

Dr Chevalier holds a BA in Film Practice and Aesthetics, an MA in Research on the Imaginary and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature.

She has published two monographs on memory from both imaginative and cultural perspectives as well as numerous articles about cinema (Bertrand Bonello, Celine Sciamma, Chantal Akerman, Jean Gremillon, Georges Franju, Tony Gatliff, Orson Welles).

The main focus of her multidisciplinary approach as researcher and filmmaker is about the use and representation of Masks, minority voices and resistance in a transglobal world, gender performances, and the representation of violence and its link to the experience of resilience.

Other interests include the Arts, Intermediality, Broken Faces, Youth in Cinema, Cinema from Corsica, Iranian cinema, the Carnival and digital inclusiveness.

https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-calendar/whats-on/workshop/french-film-club/

https://blogs.lexpress.fr/london-by-art/

https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/karine-chevalier

Alexandra graduated with an MA in Film Production (Fiction) from the Northern School of Film Television, and prior to that worked for the Arts Council of England funding artists’ film and video and managing joint production schemes with broadcasters.

In addition, she has designed and managed accredited practical filmmaking courses for organisations including Four Corners Film and the BBC. Her first degree is an MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.

Her skills cover all areas of independent production, with particular expertise in teaching documentary production and critical theory (particularly contemporary practice, experimental and hybrid forms), and sound design. She works closely with students to support group and solo work that has frequently received recognition in the form of awards, and public screenings at festivals and events.

Alexandra lectures on a wide range of BA Film Production modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is actively involved in the independent production scene regularly giving talks and appearing on panels at festivals, events and conferences.

She is currently in the post-production stage of an experimental semi-autobiographical documentary New York Stories, exploring the legacy of childhood, location and memory, set in 1960s Manhattan.

Hello, I'm Mark and I am a Technical Instructor on BA Film Production. I have always had a passion for filmmaking and have worked on various projects, including a fan-made episode of Doctor Who and a time travel short film called 'Extra Time.' As a seasoned professional in the field, I love sharing my experience with others. I specialise in teaching workshops on Cinema Cameras, Audio, Lighting, and Video Editing.

Ari has relevant experience working in the Film & TV Industry for almost 10 years in a variety of different productions including films, high end tv drama, music videos, commercials, and arthouse cinema, predominantly in the camera department. With a particular focus on cameras and cinematography, Ari has worked as a camera operator, camera assistant and technical assistant