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John Foster

Principal Lecturer, Screenwriter in residence

The Media School

 John Foster

Professional Details

 Previous Appointments:
  Freelance Screenwriter
 
 Membership of Professional Organisations/External Bodies:
  Member, Writers Guild of Great Britain
  Member, Crime Writers Association
 

Area(s) of Interest

 Research Centre:
  Centre for Broadcasting History Research
 
 Area(s) of Interest:
  Screenwriting
   Creative Writing
   Cinema, television and radio
   World Cinema enthusiast
   Multi-media dance and theatre
   Cultural Diversity
   Involved in programme planning for the University screen of the Purbeck Film Festival
 
 Academic Group(s):
  Media
 
 Units Led:
  MA Screenwriting
 
 Relevant Posts Within Industry/Academia:
  Script Editor, BBC Television
Acting Deputy Head BBC Television Script Unit
 

Profile

As Screenwriter-in-Residence I am involved in the teaching of screenwriting at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and radio drama with postgraduate radio students. I have taught screenwriting for such organisations as the Arvon Foundation and the Scriptnet/British Council overseas script development programmes, working with screenwriting students in Ghana and Sri Lanka. I have published fiction and reviews in the Guardian, Spectator and Tribune, written for radio and the theatre, worked as a script reader, script editor and researcher for the BBC, Central and Granada. My screenwriting credits include many episodes for TV series such as Z-Cars, Softly Softly, Crown Court, Emmerdale, Juliet Bravo, Rockliffe, Saracen, The Bill. I have also written childrens’ serials for the BBC and Granada, one-off dramas and dramatised documentaries, including a BAFTA award-winning BBC Omnibus on crime novelist Raymond Chandler.

My movie screenplay Letters from a Killer was produced in 1998 starring Patrick Swayze, and I am a contributor to the award-winning short story collection, Mean Time. I have written a screenplay commissioned and produced by the Media School and have been involved in the creation of multi-media dance dramas. I am currently working on a novel.

 

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Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1202 965249
Fax: +44 (0)1202 965875
Email: jfoster@bournemouth.ac.uk
Building: Weymouth House

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