Jane Corbett has written both literary fiction and film scripts, several of which have been made into prize-winning feature and TV films.
She studied History and English at Newham College, Cambridge, and is the author of a literary novel Looking for Home, a YA novel Out of Step, a volume of modern fairy tales entitled Beasts and Lovers, and several award winning screenplays. Her latest book The Last Musketeer, is a story that is both a psychological thriller and a love story.
Following a postgrad film course and a prize at the Chicago Film Festival for her graduating film, she continued to combine writing with teaching. For several years she ran a Super 8 filmmaking course in central London, open to all comers, which fostered several interesting and successful young filmmakers. For the last 15 years she has taught documentary and storytelling at the National Film and Television School.
Writing film scripts is, she says, a collaborative activity with its own restrictions and advantages. The largely solitary writing of novels and stories is an interesting counterpart. Whilst it allows greater freedom for the writer, it lays on her the full responsibility for the success or failure of what she creates.