Books by Peter Markham
Peter Markham is the author of two books What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay (2020) and The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen (2023). Previously, he was Head of Directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory, Los Angeles, where he taught for 17 years and mentored some 450 new directors. Markham directed second unit for Martin Scorsese on Gangs of New York and for Anthony Minghella on The English Patient. As a director in his own right in the UK, he directed TV drama for the BBC and Granada while his film The Cormorant, starring Ralph Fiennes, was nominated for a BAFTA Wales Award.
Interviews with Peter Markham
The Best Book-to-Movie Adaptations, recommended by Peter Markham
Both books and movies seek to tell compelling stories, but they do so in different ways. Peter Markham, both a director and a long-time teacher of directing at the American Film Institute, talks us through five of his favourite book-to-movie adaptations—and what they reveal about successfully bringing a book to the screen.
