Who's who
Rachel Tillotson
Lecturer
After completing a Dramatic Arts degree at Bretton Hall College (Leeds University) Rachel came to London and wrote and directed her first short film in 1994: The White Room. With this she got into the Royal College of Art to do a two-year MA in film direction from 1995-97. There she wrote and directed three more shorts and after graduating made a further three with region Funders. She has won seven awards in total for these shorts, including Clermont Ferrand and DepicT. Fuel was funded by Film Four and was distributed in front of the Film Four feature Crush in cinema's nationwide. Rachel directed various television programmes between 2001 and 2004.
Rachel won a BAFTA in 2002 for the BBC drama Offside and an RTS in 2004 for Girls In Love, Granada.Interviewed by Gilles Jacob and other prominent film figures in 2000 Rachel was accepted onto the first screenwriting residency in Paris, called the Cinefondation - funded by Cannes film festival. She attended this between October 2001 and February 2002.
Since 2004 she has been pursuing her own work again and screenwriting whilst she teaches film. She has written a feature Bad Stock and is currently working on a number of others she would like to direct. She was also on the 2008/9 guiding lights scheme and her mentor is David Yates (Harry Potter director). She has recently completed her ninth short film I'll Tell You, funded by the UK Film Council and South West Screen and was one of 11 filmmakers chosen to be on the Berlinale Talent Project market in 2011 with Bad Stock.
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