John Lind(II)
- Writer
- Director
- Editor
John was born in Calcutta, India to a Russian mother and English father. His much
travelled childhood was spent during major social upheavals in India,
China, Japan, and Kenya. In England he received a formal education. He
received further education at the All-Union State Institute of
Cinematography in Moscow, U.S.S.R. (1969) during the Cold War years of
the Brezhnev regime. Here he was influenced by the works of film
directors Grigory Kozintsev, Sergei Paradzhanov, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
In 1971 he became the very first student to be registered with
Britain's then brand new National Film School where he made the award
winning short drama 'The Reprieve' (shot in 35mm Cinemascope); and the
longer drama 'Matushka', also on 35mm. His personally selected script
mentor was Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago etc.). His
apprenticeship years were spent in the cutting rooms. John has lived
and worked in London, L.A., N.Y. and Sydney. Many of his completed
screenplays, either original works or commissioned as development
deals, have been high-end romantic dramas set within grand canvases.
'Return to Russia', adapted from William Gerhardie's Penguin Classic
'Futility' was set in the Russian Civil War; 'Burning Gold' ,the
proposed sequel to 'Chariots of Fire' was set in the Chinese Civil War;
'The Angel Maker' (Hungarian Civil War); 'Till the Sun Grows Cold'
,adapted from Maggie McCune's biog. of the same title about her
daughter Emma McCune (Sudan Civil War); Odysea (futuristic battle of
survival by an undersea farming community); and 'Starbjorn the Viking -
911 A.D.' ("Brave Heart meets Lord of the Rings"). John Lind is also a
Script Editor and teacher of Narrative Drama.
