Cherry Potter
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Cherry Potter is a film writer, cultural commentator and psychotherapist.
Cherry Potter has an MA in film and television from the Royal College of Art
.
As a television writer, Cherry Potter contributed to the hospital-based drama series Angels
. She has worked as a freelance script writer for film, television and the theatre. She was formerly Head of Screenwriting at the UK National Film and Television School
. She has run courses on film and creative writing in Europe
and North America
including the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies and the EU Media Programme for European Screenwriters.
Cherry Potter is the author of three film books:
She also is an occasional broadcaster and she writes on film, culture and relationships for The Guardian
and The Times
.
She is also a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and a member of the Institute of Group Analysis
.
Cherry Potter has an MA in film and television from the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
.
As a television writer, Cherry Potter contributed to the hospital-based drama series Angels
Angels (TV series)
Angels was originally a British television seasonal drama series dealing with the subject of student nurses and was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1978. The show's format then switched to a twice weekly soap opera format from 1979 to 1983. The show's title derived from the name of the...
. She has worked as a freelance script writer for film, television and the theatre. She was formerly Head of Screenwriting at the UK National Film and Television School
National Film and Television School
The National Film and Television School was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and it is located close to Pinewood Studios.-History:...
. She has run courses on film and creative writing in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
including the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies and the EU Media Programme for European Screenwriters.
Cherry Potter is the author of three film books:
- Image, Sound and Story, the art of telling in film (Secker and WarburgSecker and WarburgHarvill Secker is a British publishing company formed in 2004 from the merger of Secker and Warburg and the Harvill Press.Secker and Warburg was formed in 1936 from a takeover of Martin Secker, which was in receivership, by Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse...
, 1990); - Screen Language: From writing to film making (Methuen, 2001);
- I Love You But…Seven Decades of Romantic Comedy (Methuen, 2002).
She also is an occasional broadcaster and she writes on film, culture and relationships for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
.
She is also a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and a member of the Institute of Group Analysis
Institute of Group Analysis
The Institute of Group Analysis is a training organisation for group psychotherapists in the analytical tradition, based on the groundwork begun by S. H...
.