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Peter

Last name

Packer

Short profile

Strategy Adviser, UK Film Council and Media Literacy Task Force

Longer profile

Currently a Strategy Adviser to the UK Film Council, Peter advises, inter alia, on digital, diversity but especially media literacy and education policy issues. Peter sits on the European Commission’s Media Literacy Experts’ Group and is Strategy Adviser to the Media Literacy Task Force. He is a project Director of identities, a digital-diversity content generation programme and online showcase, being developed for the UK Film Council & other regional partners (part of an EC Equal funded Programme, The Last Mile).

Interests

Peter founded and directed the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now at the National Film Theatre in London) for some years. He worked with the Ministerio de Cultura to showcase and introduce Spanish Cinema to the UK - as part of the Tyneside International Film Festival where he was CEO and Programme Director. He has published Spanish Cinema since Franco (Deutsch 1990), on current policy developments in The European Digital Cinema Forum Guide to Digital Cinema Production (Focal press 2004), as well as on the work of Iris Murdoch and Jean Rhys. He has worked in Chicago and Rome on community and diversity initiatives, lectured at the English National Opera and broadcast for the BBC and Channel 4., Peter’s qualifications include a doctorate, a postgraduate diploma in Group Psychotherapy and, more recently, an MBA with distinction (Strathclyde Graduate Business School 1999).

Blog/Website

http://www.medialiteracy.org.uk