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Knudsen Erik
Honorary member of the Node for Film Praxis
Emeritus Professor University of Central Lancashire
Erik Knudsen is Emeritus Professor of Media Practice at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, where he was formerly the Faculty Director of Research for the Faculty of Culture and Creative Industries. Prior to joining UCLan, he was a Professor of Visual and Digital Culture at Bournemouth University. Prior to this, he was Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. He was the Head of The School of Media Music and Performance at the University of Salford between 2010 and 2012. He regularly conducts guest workshops at international film schools, such as the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba, where he was Head of Editing between 2001 and 2009. He was born in Ghana to a Danish father and Ghanaian mother in 1956. He studied film production at York University in Toronto, Canada, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Specialist Honours in Film Production in 1983. He returned to Britain in 1984, where he has lived and worked since. He gained his PhD from the University of Salford, 2002. As a multiple prize winning filmmaker, his most recent films include True Calling (88 minutes, fiction, 2021), Cleft Lip (84 minutes, fiction, 2018), The Raven On The Jetty (88 minutes, fiction, 2015).
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