Film Producer and Educator

• Management experience across media production, including talent, business, finance and marketing. Invaluable when developing Higher Education courses.
• Proven innovation in course design and management. By combining creative industry procedures with new digital opportunities, I have created highly personalised learning experiences for students.
• Integrating production with new talent coaching/training and teaching in Higher Education.
• Pioneered personally negotiated, self-directed and resourced student learning that gets results.
• Experienced in developing business by helping industry and academia work together.

Carl Schoenfeld has 20 years of film & TV experience in a variety of roles including editing, cinematography, directing, producing award-winning feature films, as well as Head of Production at Raindance. Now Programme Leader for the Raindance Postgraduate Film Degree, he has developed and delivered industry-relevant production courses with many organisations including Oxford Brookes University, SAE Institute and The British Council across Europe as well as Asia, building on work-based learning.

Carl’s students often interview industry leaders, who in the past have included Spike Lee, Oscar winning writer Julian Fellows or director Damian Jones, for their coursework and regularly get work in small emerging as well as major companies including Recorded Picture Company, Ridley Scott Associates, Company Pictures, Ealing Studios, BBC, Sky Sports, Panavision, Hubbard Casting, Mollinaire, Sarajevo Film Festival and Optimum. Student work has been shown at Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals, amongst many others.

Recently, I set up a Masters Programme at the Raindance Film Festival in London. It now caters for more than 150 film students, half of them participating online from places including L.A., Adelaide, Kuala Lumpur, Toronto, Teheran and Tel Aviv, with a drop out rate of less than 10%.  They have access to their own collaborators and equipment but need strong mentor relationships to work successfully towards competing on a global scale. I’ve also been taking student work through regular award boards, and the programme’s first 12 students graduated last year with Staffordshire as the validating University. You can find more detail and testimony through my LinkedIn profile  https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlschoenfeld

1. Founder

   Online Screenwriting Academy · Mar 2019 - Present

   Designing and running bespoke courses and Online table reads for emerging and mid - career Screenwriters. My students have had their work produced and screened on the BBC, Netflix, and film festivals like Edinburgh, Berlin and Cannes. We also deliver courses for the British Film Institute, University of Oxford and others. Other routes are into competitive national films schools, Torino and Sundance Labs, or working for Warner Bros, Marvel, Industrial Light and Magic or Ridley Scott. http://www.onlinescreenwritingacademy.com

2. Producer

   Schoenfeld Films Ltd · Mar 2000 - Present

3. Head of Postgraduate Education

   Raindance Film Festival · Apr 2011 - Nov 2014

4. Teaching Fellow, Associate Lecturer

   Oxford Brookes University · Sep 2005 - Dec 2012

5. Module Leader Digital Filmmaking

   SAE Institute · Aug 2005 - Mar 2012

6. Head of Production

   Raindance Rawtalent · 2002 - 2005

7. Lecturer

   West Herts College · Apr 2002 - Feb 2003

8. Development Producer

   Tall Stories Ltd · Apr 2002 - Feb 2003

9. Producer

   W.O.W. Productions Ltd · Mar 1992 - Nov 2002

10. Lecturer

    Hanover University of Applied Arts and Sciences · Nov 1997 - Oct 2001

11. Associate Producer

    Mosaic Films Ltd · Jul 1999 - Nov 1999

12. Script Analyst

    MEDIA Programme/European Media Development Agency · Jul 1996 - Jul 1999

13. Development Producer

    Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion · Mar 1997 - Nov 1997

14. Business Affairs Consultant

    Enlightened Capital · Jun 1996 - Feb 1997

15. Development Officer

    The Harrow Media Resource Centre · Aug 1991 - Mar 1992

16. Trainee Editor

    Audiovision Rhein Neckar · Sep 1986 - Dec 1987

17. Cameraman

    Stuttgart Ballett · Oct 1986 - Feb 1987

18. Photographer's Assistant

    Gause Fotodesign · Jan 1986 - Aug 1986

19. Paramedic

    Emergency Services Northern Frisia · Aug 1984 - Nov 1985

20. Photographer

    Haarmann & Reimer · Aug 1981 - Jul 1982

1. Best Practices for Training in the Screen Industries: Online

   ScreenSkills · Jan 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. Supporting neurodiverse trainees

   ScreenSkills · Jan 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

3. Virtual Production open day: ARRI

   ScreenSkills · Nov 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

4. Effective practice in on-line learning

   ScreenSkills · Nov 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

5. Qualification type unknown Continued Professional Development

   Oxford Brookes University · 2009 - 2010

6. Qualification type unknown 2 year Teaching Fellowship

   Oxford Brookes University · 2008 - 2010

7. Postgraduate Certificate Teaching for Higher Education

   Oxford Brookes University · 2007 - 2008

8. Postgraduate Certificate Audiovisual Production

   EAVE Audiovisual Programme · 1999 - 1999

9. Masters Film & Television

   University of Westminster · 1994 - 1996

10. B.A. (Hons) Photography, Film & Video

    Polytechnic of Central London · 1988 - 1991