The Team - Film Futures | Birmingham City University

Michael Bickerton

Lecturer

Michael Bickerton is a lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Film Production and Technology course. Since 1997, Michael has been involved with Moving Image production as well as lecturing on a range of Moving Image courses (including the highly successful UK Film Council's Introduction to Screenwriting courses in the West Midlands...

Dr Oliver Carter

Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Theory

Dr. Oliver Carter is a senior lecturer in media and cultural theory at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University. His research focuses on alternative economies of cultural production; informal forms of industry that are often removed from a formal cultural industries discourse. He has...

Matt Cusworth

Technical demonstrator

After a short stint as an offline editor, Matt decided that production was where his passions lay. Working initially as an assistant director and stand-by prop man for the BBC until he eventually found his calling in the camera department. From his 8 years working in industry, matts television and film credits include:...

Ravi Deprees

Professor of Moving Image

Ravi Deprees, Professor of Moving Image, is an award winning photographer, film maker and artist who has established an international reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still and moving image. His work involves themes of identity, use of historical archives, psychology and the subconscious, expressed through...

Professor Rajinder Dudrah

Professor of Cultural Studies & Creative Industries

Rajinder joined Birmingham City University in 2016 and was previously Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, where he held senior roles as Director of Centre for Screen Studies and Head of Dept of Drama (2007-2010). He has been appointed to serve on Sub-panel 25: Area Studies of the Research...

Frank Mannion

Senior Lecturer Film Distribution and Marketing / Movie Producer, Swipe Films

Frank Mannion runs the award-winning production, sales and distribution company, Swipe Films. The company has built up a valuable library of over 25 films, winning over 100 awards at major festivals around the world, including the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals. Frank Mannion's movies include: 'Get Lucky' starring...

Robert Mclaughlin

Lecturer

Robert is a lecturer whose emphasis is on student engagement with industry and external partnership development. He is a Prince2 Practitioner whose area of teaching is industry contextualisation, business, marketing and the work environment. He writes for media focused, genre and technology websites and a semi-regular...

Alan McQueen

Specialist Lecturer Film Business

Alan McQueen has spent the last 30 years working with the most important and influential UK film companies. He started his career in the film and home entertainment industry in 1983 with MSD Holdings. He then joined Palace Pictures, headed by Nik Powell and Steve Woolley. Palace Pictures were the most inventive, influential and...

Dr Xavier Mendik

Professor in Film/Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival

Xavier Mendik is Professor of Cult Cinema Studies within Birmingham School of Media , from where he runs the Cine-Excess International Film Festival ( www.cine-excess.co.uk ). His research interests focus on the study of European and American cult and horror cinema, and he has published and broadcast widely in these areas...

Pip Piper

Lecturer in Film and Live Project Tutor

Pip has been producing films for over 15 years from corporate to music videos to documentary and feature film. His debut feature film 'The Insatiable Moon', which he produced with Tim Sanders (Lord of the Rings / Whale Rider) and shot in NZ in late 2009, won Best Foreign Film at Moondance in the US and Best Actor and Best...