Iris Wakulenko
Profession
Senior Lecturer, MA Documentary Film
College
London College of Communication
Person Type
Staff
Biography
Iris Wakulenko is a Senior Lecturer and tutor on the MA Documentary Film programme and works on Projects, Screen School at London College of Communication. Iris is a filmmaker based in London, and co-founder of the independent production company Women With A Movie Camera.
Iris worked in graphic and fine art and was the founder of the typographic and reprographic company Art Type Pty Ltd in Australia for ten years. She also researched, produced and presented radio programmes for 5MMM over four years, and worked for holographic artist Dr Paula Dawson, including To Absent Friends, which won the Grand Prix in the first ARTEC competition held in Japan.
Subsequently, Iris relocated to Europe, where she worked in different roles in theatre, dance, music and radio at Hampstead Theatre, with the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaugh’s, Sincere Management, and VIVA in London.
She also worked for BBC Education, FETV and Digital Media, including on a European Commission project, Agora, in project management and research.
Iris currently produces, directs and edits short films and documentary films, and works with artists developing projects, as well as with community groups. She is also Producer of the digital documentary ethics website Ethics for Making.
She holds a Bachelor of Visual Art (Sydney College of the Arts), an MA in Documentary Research for Film and TV (University of the Arts London), and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, London.
Related area
View the MA Documentary Film course page.