Victoria is a writer, filmmaker and academic. She has directed films and series for cinema, TV and the web, and has received a variety of project commissions from The Arts Council of England, Film Four and Channel 4. Victoria also writes media criticism for the Guardian, the Observer and Dox magazine. Her writing includes a chapter in The Tabloid Culture Reader, (McGraw Hill - 2007) which explores the impact of technology on identity and social interaction. Victoria is a media consultant and has appeared on the BBC, Radio 4, Radio 5 and was recently interviewed for Sky News. Victoria has lectured regularly at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Banff New Media Institute, The London Film School and The Royal College of Art. She is currently the Programme Director of the MA in Documentary Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. |
Loyalty in an age of whistle-blowing and Wikileaks
"I was impressed by the intensity of the debate and the high level of intellectual engagement, not least by the audience. It was an invigorating, even exhilarating experience to be part of a festival based on the conviction that disagreement is good. The Battle of Ideas is a fantastic concept, may it spread epidemically to the rest of the world. I am already looking forward to next year's event."
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist