Archie Tait(I)
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Archie Tait is a movie and TV drama script consultant, based in the UK. He created and lectures in the Advanced Screenwriting programme at Tisch School of the Arts / NYU London.
As Cinema Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, he established ICA Projects (now ICA Films), one of the UK's longest-established distributors of World Cinema, and introduced the work of directors Terence Davies, Jane Campion, Penelope Spheeris, Jim Jarmusch, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang, Luc Besson and many others. He was Head of Development at Zenith Productions (Sid and Nancy, Simple Men, Velvet Goldmine) where he also produced and executive-produced many prime time TV drama series and serials. For ITV, he produced 100 hours of the long-running family drama Heartbeat. He ran the Workshops programme at the London Film School, and taught on the LFS MA screenwriting course. He continues to work as a freelance story and script consultant.
As Cinema Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, he established ICA Projects (now ICA Films), one of the UK's longest-established distributors of World Cinema, and introduced the work of directors Terence Davies, Jane Campion, Penelope Spheeris, Jim Jarmusch, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang, Luc Besson and many others. He was Head of Development at Zenith Productions (Sid and Nancy, Simple Men, Velvet Goldmine) where he also produced and executive-produced many prime time TV drama series and serials. For ITV, he produced 100 hours of the long-running family drama Heartbeat. He ran the Workshops programme at the London Film School, and taught on the LFS MA screenwriting course. He continues to work as a freelance story and script consultant.