Dr Chris Nunn

• PhD (University of Greenwich, 2019)
• PGCert HE (University of Greenwich, 2018)
• MA Digital Film Production (London South Bank University, 2013)
• BA (hons) Digital Film Production (London South Bank University, 2009)

Chris hails from the seaside metropolis of Brighton where he first learned to make films and both perform and direct in a large number of Fringe Theatre production. At the age of 16, he succeeded in getting funding from three different local sources support and start a youth filmmaking company. He moved to London and studied a BA (Hons) in Digital Film Production at London South Bank University, where he graduated with a first-class degree. His dissertation was on Science Fiction Television Post-9/11.

Chris stayed on at LSBU where he did an MA in Digital Film Production and wrote a dissertation on Mockumentary as a subversion of Capitalist Ideology.

During this time Chris was also Festival Director of Screentest: The UK’s National Student Film Festival (2010-2014), Chris has been championing aspiring filmmaking talent for nearly a decade. Passionate about filmmaking education, he has recently completed his PhD at the University of Greenwich entitled Towards a New Film Pedagogy: Recrafting Undergraduate Filmmaking Education for an Expanded Field (2019) and plans to continue and broaden research in this area.

Chris was a Senior Lecturer in Early Career Film and Television Development at the University of Greenwich from 2017-2022, also serving as Programme Leader for the undergraduate BA (Hons) Film and Television Production from 2019-2022.

In 2021 Chris became co-convenor of ‘Film/making Pedagogy’ a new ‘Special Interest Group’ as part of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). He is also currently Associate Editor of the Film Education Journal.

My supervision are interests are in anything that intersects with film/media education and policy.

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Chris is passionate about filmmaking education and working with academics, industry and policy makers to ensure progression routes exist for young people. This is especially important for those from diverse and hitherto underrepresented communities. Chris is currently working on a research funding bid to analyse the ways in which class, creativity and talent help or hinder would-be film and television entrants. In 2022, Chris has run a ‘production bootcamp’ pilot project for the University of Greenwich and local students at Eltham Hill School; this was part-funded by the British Film Institute (BFI). Chris is also running a series of summer workshops at both the Radical Film Network conference in Genoa, and the Utopian Studies Society conference in Brighton on the theme of radical hope in creative education.

Aside from education, Chris’s research interests include science fiction television, mockumentary and the effects these evolving forms have on contemporary audiences. He is a regular guest on the Star Trek podcast ‘Primitive Culture’, and a frequent contributor to Critical Studies in Television weekly blog. Chris is a Trustee of Screentest: The National Student Film Festival and a judge for FEST: New Directors, New Films hosted annually in Espinho, Portugal in June.