Brian Ward(I)

Born in Glasgow, Brian studied drawing & painting at Glasgow School of Art, then writing and directing at the UK’s National Film & Television School, and between 1984 and 1994 directed more than 60 music videos for artists as diverse as Sade, AC/DC, Chrissie Hynde, Art Garfunkel and The Alarm.Brian has many years experience as a screenwriter in film and TV. His credits include: The Interpreter starring Nicole Kidman & Sean Penn, directed by Sydney Pollack; Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones & Saoirse Ronan; Tabloid with Matthew Rhys, John Hurt, David Soul & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio; and the award-winning Shoebox Zoo a CGI/live-action BBC TV series starring Peter Mullan, Jason Connery and the voice talents of Alan Cumming, Simon Callow, Siobhan Redmond and Rik Mayall.Head of Screenwriting at the NFTS for the last 10 years, and senior visiting tutor since 2005, he has also taught at the London International and Met Film Schools, the Polish National Film School in Lodz, the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam, the Univsitat Ramon Llul in Barcelona, and the DFFB in Berlin. In addition, he has been a mentor on the Passion to Market, Writers for Europe and ScripTeast pan-European script development programs.