Guest lecturers

Award winning guest lecturers

         We have a long tradition of having guest lectures from the industry and recently USW Film students received a visit from multi-award winning documentary filmmaker Kim

Longinotto. Kim has been making films for over 30 years and has been dubbed 'the invisible woman' by The Guardian due to her preference to remain unheard and unseen behind the camera. Kim has won awards for her films including „The Day I Will Never Forget‟, about female circumcision in Kenya, Rough Aunties and Shinjuku Boys.

      The students were also treated to a special exclusive glimpse at Kim‟s new film, Dreamcatcher, which will be released in January at the Sundance Film Festival. Kim said on her visit to the University: “I do very few events like this but came today because of my connection with John Burgan, who teaches on the course, as we‟ve been friends for a long time. The questions today have been great – all about filmmaking and really insightful. We could‟ve carried on for hours!”