John Archer

Managing Director

John Archer works with great documentary directors to make their passion projects.

Jono McLeod’s My Old School premiered in Sundance 2022; Kim Hopkin’s A Bunch of Amateurs won the Audience Award in Sheffield Documentary Festival in 2022; Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film a New Generation was the first film to play in Cannes 2021; Mark’s 14 hour Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (Venice, TIFF and LFF) had its full premiere at TIFF in September 2019, and was  awarded the European Film Academy’s inaugural Innovation in Storytelling Award.

Other recent feature films are with Matt Pinder,  Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War (Winner Audience Award GFF); Stephen Bennett Eminent Monsters (Traverse City Film Festival); Rachel Maclean’s  Make Me Up (LFF, Rotterdam, Gothenburg); Paul Wright’s Arcadia (LFF) and he produced Mark Cousins’ epic The Story of Film (Peabody Award, Stanley Kubrick Award) and has worked with directors John Boorman, Lindsay Anderson, Nagisa Oshima, Dusan Makavejev,  Susan Seidelman and Istvan Szabo on films in The Director’s Place.

Before running Hopscotch Films John was the founding Chief Executive of Scottish Screen, the head of Music and Arts at BBC Scotland, and a BAFTA winning television producer for Did You See.