Mike Newell, Rebecca Johnson and Iain Smith at BAFTA. Photograph © Bip Mistry
Mike Newell, Rebecca Johnson and Iain Smith at BAFTA. Photograph © Bip Mistry

GUIDING LIGHTS - Mentors


2011-2012


FILM INDUSTRY MENTORING SCHEME


We are proud to have had some of film’s most successful professionals act as Guiding Lights mentors.
They include: Danny Boyle, Sam Mendes, Barbara Broccoli, Kenneth Branagh, Alison Owen, Iain Smith, Kevin Macdonald, Gurinder Chadha, William Nicholson, Alex Garland, John Hillcoat, Alison Thompson, Stephen Frears, Seamus McGarvey, Andrew Eaton, Michael Kuhn, Paul Webster, Julian Fellowes, Abi Morgan, Asif Kapadia, Peter Watson, Shawn Slovo, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Norma Heyman, Paul Greengrass, Remi Adefarasin, John Hodge, Gillies MacKinnon, Barnaby Thompson and many more.

Lighthouse is delighted to announce new Guiding Lights mentors 2011/2012:

Tim Bevan – producer (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Atonement)
Kenneth Branagh – writer/director/actor (Thor, Hamlet)
Lone Scherfig – director (An Education, One Day)
Simon Beaufoy – writer (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire)
Kris Thykier – producer (The Debt, Kick Ass)
Mark Herbert – producer (This is England, Four Lions)
James Marsh – director (Man On Wire, The King)
Clio Barnard – writer/director (The Arbor, Flood)
Asif Kapadia – director (Senna, The Warrior)
Paul Andrew Williams – writer/director (Cherry Tree Lane, London to Brighton)
Olivia Hetreed – Writer (Girl with a Pearl Earring, Wuthering Heights)

Find out more this year’s Mentees

Read more about this year’s scheme here

Further information about previous Guiding Lights mentors and mentees can be found here


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