バイオグラフィー
As a producer, writer, director and educator RORY KILALEA has worked in numerous capacities within the creative industries for the past thirty five years (since 1975), including feature film, theatre, television, television, radio, animation and education. With a career that spans the globe, he has experience in feature films (A World Apart / Cry Freedom, etc) production manager, television and radio director and academic lecturer .
Rory is also an accomplished writer of award winning plays and short stories that have been produced or published in the UK, South Africa, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Malaysia and the US. An experienced teacher and lecturer, he has taught film directing and creative writing in numerous locations, including Goldsmith Hall,Athens, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Middle East.
As a passionate campaigner, Rory had directed and written many AIDS related projects for a variety of charitable foundations, including UNESCO, The Ford Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University (USA). He also consulted on many capacity building projects in Africa with Media For Development (Harare/USA).
He is currently working as a freelance producer, director, writer and teacher. This includes writing and producing a 28 minute animated programme against violence for the Middle East youth market, as well as completing a novel and school anthology 'In the Continuum'. He has recently facilitated the writers' workshops for young Zimbabwean writers on behalf of the Zimbabwean Film Institute, and he currently lectures and mentors BA Filmmaking students at the Met Film School at Ealing Studios in London.
