Robin Mukherjee
Robin’s work spans Film, Television, Radio and Theatre. He has been a core writer on numerous television series including Casualty and Eastenders. Television credits include The Bill, The Royal, Medics and Roman Mysteries among many others. Television features include ‘Grushko’ with Brian Cox and Andy Serkis, and ‘Plastic Man’ with John Thaw and Frances Barber. His first feature film won many international awards including the Audience Prize at the London Film Festival. His second feature, ‘Lore’, directed by Cate Shortland, was critically acclaimed worldwide, winning, among many other international awards, the Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was Australia’s official entry for the Oscars. His three-part drama for CBBC, ‘Combat Kids’, was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children’s Drama. He is the Course Director of MA Scriptwriting at Bath Spa University.
FILM
Lore – Edge City Films/Rohr Films, dir. Cate Shortland (2012)
- Winner Prix du Public Award, Locarno Film Festival 2012
- Selections at Sydney, Toronto, Hamburg and London Film Festivals 2012
- 8 AATCA Nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
- Critics Award Ghent International Film Festival
- Critics Award Hamburg Film Festival
- Best Cinematography, Best Music, Hamptons International Film Festival.
Dance of the Wind – Pandora Film
- Critics List, Venice Film Festival 1997
- Best Actress Nantes Film Festival 1997
- Winner Audience Award, London Film Festival 1997
THEATRE
The Cube
Dodgy Times
The Whole Hand
Bones for Burning
Sweet Dreams
The Impressario
Spider
TELEVISION
Hetty Feather
Judge Dee
Combat Kids – Lime Pictures/CBBC, dir. Paul Wilmshurst
Roman Mysteries – Series 2
The Royal – Yorkshire TV
Grushko (3 x 1 hour) – Mark Forstater Productions/BBC 1
Plastic Man (2 x 2 hours) – Sally Head Productions/ITV
Poldark (Series, 2 hours) – HTV/ITV
Casualty
Various Episodes – BBC 1
The Bill
Various Episodes – Thames Television
Eastenders
Various Episodes – BBC 1
Boon
Central Television
Harry
Various Episodes – Union Pictures/BBC 1
Medics
Various Episodes – Granada Television
Backup
Various Episodes – BBC1
The Broker’s Man
BBC 1/ Bentley Productions
Where The Heart Is
RADIO
A Fire in The Sun
BBC Radio 4
All God’s Children
BBC Radio 4 – The Friday Play
SHORTS
Missing The Party
BBC 1
Chemistry Lesson
The Repair Man
TEACHING
Arvon Foundation
Birkbeck University of London
University of Kent
Kazaksthan Media Project
Bath Spa University
Bournemouth University
Portsmouth University