NFS Lecture Series
National Film School Lectures
Since its inception in 2004, our annual series of NFS Lectures has introduced 75 leading international practitioners from ten countries to our students. Thirty of them are Academy Award® nominees and between them they have received 77 Oscar® nominations. They have also won Golden Globes, Primetime Emmy Awards®, BAFTAs, Césars, European Film Academy Awards, Annies, and IFTAs. The series is supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board.
Past participants have included:
| Participant |
|---|
| Lisa Albert (Writer/Producer), Mad Men |
| Lenny Abrahamson (Director), Room |
| Barry Ackroyd BSC (Cinematographer), The Hurt Locker |
| Luciana Arrighi (Production Designer), The Remains of the Day |
| Mick Audsley (Editor), Twelve Monkeys |
| Jenny Beavan (Costume Designer), Mad Max: Fury Road |
| John Boorman (Producer/Director), Deliverance |
| Consolata Boyle (Costume Designer), Florence Foster Jenkins |
| Gabriel Byrne (Actor), The Usual Suspects |
| John Canemaker (Animator), [Academy Award® winner] |
| Danny Cohen BSC (Cinematographer), Les Misérables |
| Terence Davies (Writer/Director), Distant Voices, Still Lives |
| Stephen Frears (Director), The Queen |
| Bruno Delbonnel AFC (Cinematographer), Inside Llewyn Davis |
| Brendan Gleeson (Actor), Harry Potter |
| Eric Goldberg (Animator), Aladdin |
| Ed Guiney (Producer), Room |
| Oliver Hirschbiegel (Director), Downfall |
| Gemma Jackson (Production Designer), Game of Thrones |
| Neil Jordan (Writer/Director), The Crying Game |
| John Landis (Director), The Blues Brothers |
| Tony Lawson Ace (Editor), Barry Lyndon |
| Mike Leigh (Writer/Director), Secrets & Lies |
| Alex Mc Dowell (Production Designer), Man of Steel |
| Seamus Mc Garvey BSC (Cinematographer), Atonement |
| Alison Owen (Producer), Elizabeth |
| Alan Parker (Director), Mississippi Burning |
| Bill Plympton (Animator), Idiots and Angels |
| Joanna Quinn (Animator), [Academy Award® nominee] |
| Frederic Raphael (Screenwriter), Eyes Wide Shut |
| Stephen Rea (Actor), The End of the Affair |
| John Sayles (Writer/Director), Passion Fish |
| Jim Sheridan (Writer/Director), In the Name of the Father |
| Oliver Stone (Writer/Director), JFK |
| Krzysztof Zanussi (Writer/Director), Constans |
Peter Foott
The National Film School in IADT has added Irish director, writer and producer Peter Foott to its lecture series in association with Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board.
A graduate of IADT Peter Foott is a filmmaker with prizes from Venice Film Festival and The Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA) where he won best TV moment of the year. His debut feature film The Young Offenders, which had the widest Irish cinematic release of 2016 and made over €1.2 million at the Irish box office, won Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Prior to this he was creator, writer and producer of RTÉ’s hit comedy show, The Fear and a producer, writer and director on RTÉ’s longest running comedy show Republic Of Telly.
This lecture is taking place on Tuesday, 21 March at 6.00pm in room A019, IADT and is a free event for all to attend.