BA (Hons) Film & Screen Arts

Neil Rose is a sound designer and academic who specialises in electroacoustic/acousmatic music, live performance, film, animation and design. He studied sonic arts at Middlesex University, and lectures in Film & Screen Arts here at the university. Neil undertakes frequent collaborations with film and performance/live artists as well as being a successful recording artist, publishing on One C, Café Concrete and Prima Rosa records, and has had work internationally distributed and reviewed by The Wire magazine. Specialising in sound, Neil also has a wealth of experience in post production, visual effects and film editing. His deep technical knowledge of the industry, from conception right the way through to the output of films, makes him a fantastic addition to the Film & Screen Arts courses. Click here to visit Neil's Soundcloud & Mixcloud.

Ali Woodhouse is a film educator and producer who lectures on BA (Hons) Film & Screen Arts at Arts University Plymouth. Her specialism is documentary, and her professional experience spans film production, independent cinema programming and mentoring emerging filmmakers. Ali joined the university’s pre-degree teaching team in January 2020 before moving into undergraduate Film & Screen Arts. Her earlier teaching roles include Exeter College and two years at West Island School in Hong Kong, where she taught International Baccalaureate Film alongside other film and media qualifications. As Digital Film Coordinator and Film Programmer at Exeter Phoenix, Ali supported emerging filmmakers through commissions in documentary, micro shorts and artists’ moving image. She programmed screenings for the venue’s independent cinema, Studio 74, and worked within the team managing Two Short Nights Film Festival, helping to organise discussions, pitching activities and critical feedback sessions. At Exeter-based documentary production company Preston Street Films, Ali worked as Studio Manager and Producer. Her responsibilities included research and development, pitching ideas to commissioning editors, coordinating crews and contributors, and managing budgets and schedules across production, distribution and exhibition. Her wider project experience includes managing Culture, Data, Projector for Fabian’s Film, coordinating commissioned artists and a technical team on a 2015 collaboration with Met Office scientists. She also collaborated with The Media Workshop on Escape, a light installation presented at Plymouth’s Illuminate festival in 2019. Ali holds a first-class BA (Hons) in Cultural Media Studies & Film Studies from the University of the West of England and a PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education from the University of Exeter. She completed her Masters with distinction at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, researching expanded cinema exhibition and spectatorship.

Russell “Rusty” Cleave is a light and sound practitioner, having been a collaborative writer and cinematographer on award winning short film Je ne suis pas Charlie, screened by the BFI as the winner of the Audience Special Award for Filmmaking at NAHEMI Eat Our Shorts, and was also screened at the 'Conflict and Culture' conference in Luton. He has also directed numerous music videos premiered in mainstream and independent music publications, Kerrang, Metal Hammer, The Independent, The Guardian and Vevo. Rusty is a published academic researcher with the paper A Spirit in Place (2018) in collaboration with Tilly Craig. Watch the film here. Rusty is a multi instrumentalist who has written and recorded music with bands such as Brotherhood of the Lake, Helpless and Death Parish, releasing music on various record labels both digitally and physically (Thirty Days of Night Records/ Atticus Black, Holy Roar, Virgin Records). As a part of touring bands he has gained a wealth of experience in live performance across the UK and Europe, performing at a number of mainstream music festivals from Download in the UK to various European and UK punk and noise fests. In addition to working as a recording artist, Rusty is currently involved in composing music commercially for film and television. Throughout his career in music and film he has developed a depth of knowledge as a recording engineer, recording and producing personal and client work from his home studio.In his role as Technical Tutor at Arts University Plymouth, Rusty teaches and supports students on our Photography, Commercial Photography, Fashion Media & Marketing and Film & Screen Arts degrees, and supports students from across the university through specialist teaching and technical guidance.