- Josephine Dunn studied Foundation Art at Loughborough University 1974-1975 and Fashion Design & Communications at St Martin's School of Art, London from 1975-1979. She joined Southern TV 3 days after the 1979 ITV strike as a floor assistant and 2nd unit director. Having often worked at Southern TV / TVS as "acting" floor manager, Josephine joined Limehouse Studios, London in 1983 as floor manager and 1st assistant director. In 1985 Josephine became a freelance 1st assistant director, production manager and location manager. In 1997 she became Head of Production at Large Scale Productions Ltd. producing the award wining short feature "The Promise" (Worldfest Bronze Award for Drama), produced and directed "Rumpled Beds" and was Development Producer on many more short films. Josephine was the Executive Producer on "Leicester 2000 Dreams, Reality, Reflections" a Millenium Festival project including 5 short documentaries and a educational compilation with additional material she produced and directed. Josephine completed an M.A. in Film & Television Studies at Derby University in 1996. Josephine is a qualified adult educator, and has delivered industry training through Skillset and Bectu and taught film and television production in further and higher education. She has a number of credits as script editor / script doctor and is a published journalist and poet.
'Jimmy McGovern's Cracker: From Tragedy to Success - A Noir of the Nineties" by Josephine M. Dunn (IMDb Josephine Dunn II) is now available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book ASIN B07BMC583S and as a paperback ISBN-10: 198062545X and ISBN-13: 978-1980625452. It covers the 1st 3 stories in the Cracker series & was the subject of the author's M.A. dissertation Derby University. Copies were previously held in the libraries of Derby University and ITV plc (formerly Granada TV) . Josephine was one of the production managers on the BBC film drama "Needle" also written by Jimmy McGovern and subsequently Jimmy, producer Gub Neal and the 3 directors of series I of Cracker (Andy Wilson, Michael Winterbottom, Simon Cellan Jones) gave extensive and exclusive interviews to Josephine. Robbie Coltrane lived in Southborough Road Hackney as a near neighbour of Josephine and used to visit for whisky & chats.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Josephine Dunn
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