Working Title Films, Heyday Films, Eon Productions and Lisa Bryer are - together with leading educational professionals - architects of the LSA curriculum. They have been instrumental in developing LSA as they share a strong desire to resolve the inconsistencies and skills shortages across film and television.
Tim Bevan CBE and Eric Fellner CBE
Tim and Eric began their careers in the screen industries as runners straight from school. Since 1992, Tim and Eric have worked together as Co-Chairmen of Working Title Films, one of the world’s leading film production companies that has produced Love Actually, the Johnny English films, Darkest Hour and Baby Driver. Their partnership has resulted in Working Title Films producing over 100 films that have grossed $7.5 billion, and have won 14 Academy Awards® and 40 BAFTA awards.
Working Title works extensively with Into Film, a national organisation that aims to empower the educational and personal development of young adults through the medium of film.
Lisa Bryer OBE
Lisa, who began her career as a runner straight from school, set up Cowboy Films in 1990. Cowboy Films produced ground-breaking music videos for bands such as The Cure, David Bowie and the Psychedelic Furs. Cowboy Films also produced commercials for clients including BMW and Kleenex, and short films including the Oscar® winning Wasp.
After producing the box office success, The Last King of Scotland which won an Academy Award® and many BAFTA awards, Lisa moved from production to pursue her passion in education and mental health for young adults. Lisa has been and continues to be a Governor and a Trustee of a number of schools and charities.
David Heyman
David began his career as a runner, locking-off sets and making copious amounts of tea on films like A Passage To India and Ragtime. He went on to work as a Creative Executive at Warner Bros. and a Vice President at United Artists, before becoming a producer in his own right.
David's films have grossed over $10 billion worldwide. He is perhaps best-known for producing all eight Harry Potter films, the Academy Award® winning Gravity, and both adaptations of Michael Bond’s Paddington books. Other films he has been involved with include Juice, I Am Legend, We’re The Millers, The Fault in Our Stars, Maze Runner and Fantastic Beasts. Most recently, David co-produced Quentin Tarantino’s directorial Once Upon a Time in…. Hollywood and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.
Michael G. Wilson OBE and Barbara Broccoli OBE
Wilson and his sister Broccoli co-own EON Productions Limited, the UK based production company that has produced the James Bond films since 1962. They have produced some of the most successful Bond films ever including Skyfall and Spectre. Wilson and Broccoli have produced and executive produced independent film projects including Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool and The Rhythm Section. Additionally, they co-produced and co-financed theatrical productions that have played in London and on Broadway including Once, Othello and The Kid Stays In The Picture.
In 2014, Broccoli and Wilson were honoured by the Producers Guild of America with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures.
Our full staff list can be found here.
Charlie is an experienced Principal who is passionate about giving talented young people from all backgrounds the education, opportunities and belief they need to thrive in the creative industries.
Charlie has supported LSA from the outset and joined from our partner school East London Arts and Music (ELAM) which he co-founded in 2014 and led as the Founding Principal.
ELAM was founded in partnership with Universal Music Group and other creative industry organisations, to support young people in the creative industries. It achieved an Outstanding Ofsted report in 2017.
Before ELAM, Charlie was a Director of Teach for Malaysia, based in Kuala Lumpur where he led its strategic development and was also a 2008 Ambassador of the Teach First programme.
Amongst many documentary programmes as a young video editor, Sam worked with the BBC on BBC Blast which aimed to get young people into filmmaking; this is where he caught the teaching bug. Since BBC Blast, Sam has gone on to teach film and television production at several large FE + HE colleges across 14 years, including the Global Academy in Hayes which he helped to create.
Following the set up of Global, Sam worked with the University of the Arts London (UAL) Awarding Body and contributed to the writing of their new set of Creative Media qualifications which would allow teachers the flexibility to be responsive to employer and higher education needs whilst being able to cater for the interests of the individual student — one of these is the UAL qualification all students take at LSA.
As Vice Principal, Sam consistently works with education experts, celebrated writers, directors, producers and more to ensure that our curriculum is always interesting, fun, challenging and relevant to the screen industries.