Jamie is a film scholar and award-winning, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker. He works in both documentary and fiction forms and is particularly interested in cinematic representations of ‘folk culture’. Jamie is the founder and curator of the Folk Film Gathering, the world’s first folk film festival (www.folkfilmgathering.com) which takes place annually at Edinburgh Filmhouse, and founder and general editor of the Film Education Journal, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by UCL IoE Press in association with the British Film Institute. He is also the artistic director of the Transgressive North artistic community (www.transgressivenorth.com) through which he has collaborated with Jarvis Cocker, Irvine Welsh, Four Tet, Amber Collective and more.