LING LEE - Director / Producer / Camera

Born in Berlin, I worked as Graphic Designer and Photographer
before going to Edinburgh where I graduated at Edinburgh College of Art in 2007
with a First Class BA. My short film Lo queme queda de Vos, filmed in Argentina, won the
2008 Scottish Students on Screen Experimental Award.
In 2006 I received a PRS Foundation award to perform an audio-visual performance.

I edited the feature-length documentary The Edge of Dreaming (directed by Amy Hardie,
commissioned by CH4, ARTE/ZDF, POV) which premiered at the
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. It has since been shown
in more than twenty festivals and received a worldwide cinema release.
I won a Trailblazer award at the Edinburgh International Filmfestival 2010 for my role as editor.

Editing documentaries led me to the National Film & TV School to study documentary directing.
These last two years at the school have given me time and space to explore
my own voice in documentary filmmaking and am keen to develop my observational style further.
My main interest is in telling human stories with a particular focus on crossover-cultures.
Currently based in London I am working as editor and developing several more projects to be shot in China.

I am a member of the Kitchen Sink Collective that I founded along with seven
other documentary directors from the NFTS.

www.underkonstrukt.com

LIU FAN – Associate Producer / Translation Supervisor

Born in Wuhan, China. Liu Fan is an artist, author and curator based in Wuhan. She graduated at Southeast University in 2009 with a 1st class PHD in Chinese folk art. Now, she works at Wuhan Textile University.
In 2008, she was selected as a residency artist by Wales Art International to visit UK. Her work has been screened at several international short film festivals in recently years.

In her work she investigates the relationship between public urban space and globalization, and self and subjective identity. Liu Fan also organizes a few of exhibitions in China. As an author, She has published more than 20 essays about Chinese contemporary art.

Working with Ling on this documentary was extremely exciting.
I cannot wait to collaborate with her in future projects.

Liufan website

ADAM THOMAS - Editor

I worked for a number of years in a postproduction company eventually becoming and edit assistant.
In my free time I was editing shorts and learning a lot.

Studying at The National Film and Television School has given me the chance
to continue that process and it has been greatly rewarding. Previous to that I’d graduated
with a 1st class BA Hons in film production at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
My graduation film won the Award for Creative Filmmaking at Brief Encounters 2005.

Spending two years here at the NFTS, experimenting with editing image and
sound has been a great opportunity and I’ve made a number of films that I’m proud of.
Meeting so many dedicated and talented students has been a joy.
I hope to continue working with them and to meet equally inspiring people to collaborate with in the future.

http://adam-editor.com/

LENNERT BUSCH - Composer

Lennert studied Composition and Music Production at the Utrecht School of Arts
in The Netherlands and graduated at the National Film and Television School in
MA Composing for Film and Television in 2011.
He works as a freelance composer and worked in the past for the Dutch film composer
Paul M. van Brugge as an assistant for films as The Lake House and The Letter for the King.
In addition to the graduation work, Lennert’s most recent credits are Patient 17 (feature film)
and The Origin of Creatures (animation short) which is the official Dutch entry for the Academy Awards 2011.
Lennert will be working as a freelance composer in London.  

http://www.scoringforfilm.com/

JAY PRICE - Sound Designer / Dubbing Mixer

Encouraged to play different instruments from an early age,
Jay was an accomplished musician by his early teens. Having studied
Music Technology at the Staffordshire University, he was awarded funding to start
a sound production company in 2007 offering sound recording and design services
for both independent and corporate films. He then worked in different roles such as
games development tester at Rare Ltd before redirecting his ambitions towards sound for film
which led him to the NFTS.

Over the past 2 years, he has worked on more than 30 independent films including fiction (shorts and features), documentary and animation, both in and outside of school.
He has gained in-depth knowledge, hands on experience and honed his skills as a Dialogue editor,
ADR recordist/editor, Sound Effects editor, Foley artist/recordist/editor, Supervising sound editor,
Sound designer and Dubbing mixer.

His recent work has been screened at several film festivals including The Toronto International Film Festival, Sleepwalkers Short Film Festival and also selected for Sundance Film Festival 2011.  

KYLE PICKFORD - Sound Recordist

Before making his way to the NFTS, Kyle was studying digital camera
in the London College of Communication.
Eventually he made the transition to sound and graduated in 2009.
During this time Kyle managed to get a place on a low budget feature as
a boom operator and gained alot of experience. After, Kyle knew that if he was
to take things further he would have to apply to the NFTS. Since his time here,
Kyle has matured into a hard working, calm and skilled individual.
Drawing from his success from a range of fiction, documentary and
tv projects from the school and outside, Kyle is ready for the freelance world
and can’t wait to get going on the next project. 

DILLAN NICHOLLS - Online Editor / Colour Grader

Dillan Nicholls studied for an MA in Digital Post Production
at the National Film and Television School.
Dillan has over 10 years professional TV and film production experience
and has worked for a wide range of leading production companies and broadcasters
including the BBC, Sky, Red Bee, Al Jazeera English, Channel 4, Endemol and CNBC.

He has won five international Promax BDA awards for his work as a professional
TV Promos Producer and Creative Director. He was the Head of Creative of
three different international TV channels before joining school.
Dillan has also directed and edited several short films, the most recent of which
was sold to Lionsgate for the US horror TV channel Fearnet.

While at the NFTS Dillan also won first prize at the Broadcast Magazine Altered
Images Student Post Production award 2010 for VFX supervising, compositing and
grading work on a Toshiba commercial. Dillan previously studied Film and
Literature at Warwick University, gaining a First Class BA.  

ELISABETH SCHUSSER - Production Manager

Elisabeth graduated from London’s South Bank University with a BA(Hons)in Arts Management.
Before applying at NFTS, Elisabeth did an internship with a Viennese museum and
worked for the London based Raindance Film Festival.
Further she gained some experience on various short film projects.
At the film school she worked on various productions, including fiction, TV and documentary.
The one year intense course gave her the opportunity to develop and improve further skills.
Being from Austria originally, Elisabeth is interested to work internationally.
Recent projects include a short film shot in Istanbul and a commercial for the video hosting company ‘vzaar’.