I am specialised in film history and theory, which I've been studying for years and know extensively. You could be someone curious about film who wants to get a grasp of the old calssics; or you could be a cinephile who wants to deepen her or his knowledge of the field and think critically about cinema. Some topics will include New Korean Cinema, Contemporary French Cinema, Experimental Film, French New Wave, Film and Philosophy, Hollywood Cinema, Postmodern Cinema, Documentary Theory, Queer Cinema, Feminist Cinema, Black and Postcolonial Cinema, and Ecological cinema. I also teach contemporary art history, specifically from the 1960s onwards, with a focus on performance, installation and video art, as well as their broader cultural background and relationship to the other arts. Some of the artists that will be studied are Cindy Sherman, Steve McQueen, Chantal Akerman, Shirin Neshat, Marina Abramovic, and Ana Mendieta.

Learn how to turn an IDEA/LOGLINE into a powerful SCREENPLAY, TV PILOT or SERIES, acquiring the tools to test, develop and refine your project at every stage - SUBJECT, OUTLINE, TREATMENT - allowing the story to progressively find its own shape and strength. Learn how to UNLEASH YOUR NARRATIVE CREATIVITY, and STRUCTURE, ENHANCE, or UNBLOCK a SCRIPT that’s struggling to take off. Discover the DIRECTORIAL GRAMMAR, to think in terms of SHOT COMPOSITION, MOVEMENT, PACE, EDITING, and ACTOR DIRECTION. Learn how to create and structure a SHOT LIST. Together we will create a personalized program tailored to your goals and level. If you wish, you will also learn the strategies needed to navigate the highly competitive world of cinema, television, and the wider audiovisual industry across three markets: the United States, France and Italy.

I am a professional videographer, and during my lessons, you will learn how to effectively manage the different parameters of shooting, sound recording and editing: 1. the different modes of the device: manual, automatic, aperture priority, speed priority 2. the openness of the lens and its implications 3. the shutter speed and its consequences 4. sensitivity, how to choose it 5. focusing: automatic or manual 6. the composition: some benchmarks to build its image 7. the accessories: tripod, projector, deflector 8. the different formats and their characteristics 9. process rushes in editing software Depending on your pre-existing knowledge, you can choose the aspects that interest you from the list above.

Serious endeavouring to entertain through media studies, particularly filmmaking, and current affairs. After studying media and film, I worked at the BBC from 1989 to 1991 mainly as an assistant to chief documentary editor Jane Val Baker. The following years, I directed several short films on communal subjects such as poverty, classism, racism, homelessness, social division and poverty. Throughout this decade I worked on numerous pop video clips (as an art director and director), and also TV commercials, eventually directing a Lee cooper ad. Towards the end of the 199O’s I directed a documentary on the popular hip- hop group the Fugees, before moving to Paris, France where I directed ‘Actress’, a wry comedy produced by the renowned Parisian production company Mic-Mac In 2002 I wrote and directed my first feature film ‘Toothache’ aka ‘Rage De Dent’, a bitter satirical comedy following a group of bored middle class artists and their troubles in love during a weekend in Paris. Starring Julie Depardieu, Ludivine Sagnier ‘Toothache’ (rage de dent) was produced by Arte France Cinema and Mic Mac productions. My second feature length film ‘Nadine’ was shot in September 2006. The film follows a teenage self-harmer her fatal battle with mental health issues. Nadine premiered at the Odyssee Cinema in Strasbourg, France in July 2008 as part of the British cycle of films alongside Ken Loach’s ‘The wind that shakes the barley’ and Stephan Frear’s ‘The Queen’. It was also shown in competition at Ghent film festival and Cork film festival, Rome international Film festival and several other international festivals. Between 2011 and 2016, I was the co-author of several documentaries produced by France Televisions and the French-German TV channel ARTE. In 2019 I was the co-author on the feature docudrama ‘In our paradise’, produced by Idéale Audience and directed by Claudia Marschal. ‘In our paradise’ premiered at DOC/FEST Sheffield in June 2019, and was selected at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2019, at the YIDFF in October 2019 and at the Cork Film Festival in November 2019. 2020 saw the completion of my 3rd film as a feature film director with the existentialist thriller ‘Man in wood’ featuring a special guest appearance from the talented singer/actress Lauryn Hill. Whilst also during the same year I created ‘The Black Victory’, an independent production and promotion platform for film, music and cultural content. The teaser for ‘In the greenhouse’, a pysclogical thriller which I wrote and will direct This innovative digital platform has links to several other social network platforms and is currently developing an all female podcast that aims to tackle diverse subjects from voices that are powerful, engaging, yet rarely given the spotlight they merit.

What you'll learn AI filmmaking from idea to finished video. Storytelling for short films, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and commercials. Prompt writing for cinematic AI video generation. Creating realistic characters and scenes with AI. AI voiceovers with ElevenLabs. AI music creation with Suno AI. Editing AI videos in Adobe Premiere Pro and Canva. Creating 9:16 vertical films for social media. AI comedy, drama, documentaries, adverts, and trailers. AI tools we'll use Sora AI Midjourney Google AI Studio (Veo) Canva AI ElevenLabs Suno AI Adobe Premiere Pro ChatGPT for scriptwriting and prompts Who are these lessons for? Complete beginners. Content creators. YouTubers and TikTok creators. Small business owners creating adverts. Filmmakers wanting to learn AI workflows. Marketing professionals. Students interested in the future of filmmaking.