Prof. Michael BRAY

Course Leader of Postgraduate Film courses at Drama Centre, Central Saint Martins, part of the University of Arts London
MA Screen: Acting, MA Screen: Directing & MA Screen: Writing

• Created many news strands for the courses including Green screen, Motion Capture, Post production, Producing film, film finance, film sound. Some of these strands are currently being written into new courses (work-based MA’s) Notably, Producing, and Film Sound.
   
• Created ‘Film Matrix’ and the ‘Strangelove Film Festival’, ‘Film in a Day’ developed collaborations with DreamWorks, The Francis Crick Institute, Everyman Cinema, Kubrick Foundation, Channel 4, BBC.
   
• For MA Screen: Acting, Prof. Bray created a major collaboration with the Boris Shchukin Instistute, the premier Vakhtangov Institute in Moscow and the Stockholm Academy of Film.

Guest lecturer at the National Film and Television School

External Examiner at East Fifteen Drama School

2008-2013

Director of Arts Educational Schools London

• Created a suite of new courses including the first BA in Acting for Film and Television in Britain, MA Screenwriting, MA Film making, MA Acting.

2004-2008

Head of Film and Television Arts Educational Schools London.

• Created an entirely new way of producing film and television output in the drama school sector. Teaching and enabling BA and MA acting students to fully understand the demands of film and television acting, and opening up the possibilities of talking control of their own careers by making their own films to showcase their talents. Reshaped the organisation so that it was capable of producing 40 short films a year to broadcast quality.
   
• Notable alumni from this period:
  Lashana Lynch, ‘Naomi’,“No Time to Die” (Latest Bond Movie) ‘Maria Rambeau’, “Captain Marvel”, ‘Arjana Pike’, “Bullet Proof”.
  Tuppence Middleton,  ‘Mary Edison’, “The Current War”, ‘Helen’, “The Imitation Game”, ‘Helene Bezuk’, “War and Peace”.
  Finn Jones, ‘Danny Rand’, “Iron Fist”, ‘Loras Tyrell’, “Game of Thrones”, ‘Danny Rand’, “Defenders”.
  Laura Haddock, ‘Merideth Quill’, “Guardian of the Galaxy”,  ‘Vivian Wembley’, “Transformers”, ‘Alison’, “The Inbetweeners”.
   
• Created a range of new courses across the school including six form, foundation course and new screen acting short courses, creating a new hub of film making within the schools that make up Arts Educational Schools London.

Writer/ Director/Producer at Jacket Films, Ealing Films, Winchester Films and 20th Century Fox Films

• Prof. Bray was employed by a series of production companies to work on a range of films. “Maggie” ”Something’s Gotta Give”, “Mind the Gap” for Jacket films. “Commitments 2”, “The Killing Joke”, with Winchester Films. “Black Powder”, “The Possession of Julie May”, with Guamont Films in France and Ealing Films. 

1995-2011

Director/Head of Development Winchester Films.

• Writer and Director of “The Sea Change” chosen for the Sundance Film Festival.
• Writer, “The last Samurai in Deptford”
• Writer/Director “The Cockroach” produced as a co-production with Channel 4 films.

All of these films were screened at BAFTA:

• Produced, “The last Round”, Directed by Danny Baldwin, selected for Raindance and Tribeca film festivals.
• Produced, “Dry Socks”, Directed by Ben Plumb, selected for Cannes Film Festival.
• Writer / Director, “I Do”.
• Writer / Director, “Rewind”
• Writer / Director, “The Swimmer”
• Director, “Dark Water”
• Director, “Emily”
• Director, “Private Smith”
• Director, “Work Experience”
• Director, “Dance Lessons”
• Director, “Lust”
• ​Director, “Back Home”