Anna Southgate

Anna started comedy-writing 15 years ago with BBC Radio and TV show, Dead Ringers. Her most recent script, CABLE STREET, is a satirical comedy-drama that she will direct as her first feature. She has also completed a dark-comedy, TEAM-BUILDING – THE LOST 49‘ERS and co-written BERNIE’S GIFT (in development), and directed I SEEK ASYLUM starring Emma Thompson.

Anya Camilleri

Anya is a film and TV director, and writer who has worked on THE BILL, NY LON and LIVERPOOL I + II, amongst others. Her recent credits include short film JEALOUSY (Palm Springs FF, Austen FF, London SFF, Remi Winner Housten IFF) and A GIRL OF NO IMPORTANCE, which has been selected for the upcoming Women in Film showcase.

Brendan O’Neill

Brendan is a writer/producer/director. Since making his first film in 2008, he has been selected for 2 regional, 2 national and 2 international talent schemes. His war film Around Again won the UK parliamentary Film The House award in 2015. He has a range of projects in development.

Camilla Wren

Producer and founder of Frolic Films, Camilla is developing a slate of that include a TV drama adaptation of New York-set novel AFTER DELORES, a feature adaptation of British Asian coming of age novel COCONUT UNLIMITED, and an original series, WHALER. Previously Camilla worked in TV production.

Christiana Ebohon-Green

Christiana is an award-winning drama director, currently selected for the BAFTA Elevate 2017 scheme. She has directed Father Brown, Doctors, EastEnders, Hollyoaks and Emmerdale. She recently directed a Film London Calling Plus short called, Support and Creative England supported short, Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote, starring Sir Lenny Henry.

Darcia Martin

Darcia has been directing for almost 20 years. She started out in Factual Educational and Entertainment programmes at the BBC, and have since gone on to direct Casualty, Doctors , Judge John Deed, Hollyoaks Specials, The Bill and Call The Midwife. She has also co-produced an award winning independent feature documentary.

Fleur Nieddu

Fleur has worked with award winning documentary film teams at Grain Media, Violet Films and Postcode Films. She is currently Project Manager at Hakawati working on feature docs ALMOST HEAVEN by Carol Salter & ISLAND by Steven Eastwood. She’s directing a short doc about women’s representation in society since WW2.

Georgina Paget

Georgina works with Caspian Pictures and independently. She in post-production on US AMONG THE STONES (2017), & the black comedy DEAD IN A WEEK (OR YOUR MONEY BACK) from first time writer-director Tom Edmunds. In 2013 she produced the acclaimed theatre project SYRIA: THE TROJAN WOMEN which became an award-winning documentary QUEENS OF SYRIA (2015).

Helen Jones

Helen is a Producer & Co-Founder of Silver Salt Films, which creates female-focused content. The company’s first feature, OCCIDENT’S MARCH is the follow-up to THE ANCHORAGE, which was awarded Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard and named ‘Best First Film of the Year’ by The New York Times.

In-Sook Chappell

In-Sook is a playwright and film-maker. Her first play THIS ISN’T ROMANCE won the Verity Bargate Award. Her first short, FULL was funded by the BBC and played at Encounters and the London Short Film Festival. In-Sook is completing her second short film KOTCHEBI.

Irune Gurtubai

Irune’s debut feature, Pikadero, was screened at over 40 international festivals followingits premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. It won various awards,including a FIPRESCI and the Michael Powell Award at EIFF. Pikadero has been theatrically released in a number of European countries.

Jenny Lu

Jenny Lu has written and directed ‘The Man who Walked on the Moon’ (2014) (Winner of Best Fantasy Award at Amsterdam International Film Festival 2015, selected for London Short Film Festival 2015). Her feature film script ‘The Receptionist’ won the ‘Excellence Screenplay Award at MOC, Taiwan in 2014.

Julia Stovell

Julia was chosen for Guiding Lights 2016, Europe’s most prestigious mentoring scheme and is being mentored by Academy Award winning director James Marsh. Her documentaries RUNAWAY (BBC1) & THE BOY WITH THE PROTEUS SYNDROME (Channel 4) were broadcast and sold worldwide. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the HBO BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH TALENT AWARD.

Katerina Philippou-Curtis

Kat has worked in film, theatre and TV both in Europe and the US. She set up INVENTOME in 1997 to produce her first feature, THE BOYS. She is currently developing her third
feature ‘The secret mind of Oakly Carter, aged 9.74’. She is a published author, member of WGA and
Directors UK.

Lydia Conway

Lydia started her career as a journalist. With Paul Arnott she co-founded Edenwood Productions with credits inc the feature film A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with the RSC for C4/Miramax, SCULPTING LIFE (Rowan Gillespie) for PBS/RTE, BBC’s BARBADO’ED: SCOTLAND’S SUGAR SLAVES and LOVE & BETRAYAL IN INDIA: THE WHITE MUGHAL for BBC FOUR.

Lynsey Martenstyn

Lynsey has worked on many factual programmes for a variety of channels including NatGeo, BBC, C4. In 2016, Lynsey was chosen as a ‘One to Watch’ at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Lynsey is a qualified journalist and an aluma of the Liverpool Playhouse Young Writers’ Programme and the Royal Court Writers’ Programme.

Margaret McGoldrick

Margaret is a Belfast based producer/director. She most recently directed children’s short, Finding Shakespeare, through the BFI/Northern Ireland Screen Access Shorts scheme.
In 2016 she produced short film Childer via the BFI/Northern Ireland Screen Shorts-To-Features scheme.

Morvan Masterton

Morven’s passion is two-pronged, but rooted in documentary-making – her motivation and interest is in social reportage and music. Morven is currently working as an Assistant Producer on a new documentary in production, Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché.

Naomi Wright

Naomi is a Writer-Director and Producer at Silver Salt Films. She has worked in television for the last sixteen years making a wide range of documentaries for Channel 4, ITV, the BBC and Sky Arts, including the final episode of ‘The South Bank Show’ on ITV. Naomi is also an award-winning short filmmaker.

Natalie Edwards

Natalie Edwards is a Birmingham born producer and actor and owner of Transition Stage Company. She has worked in Independent Film, Theatre and Tv in UK and USA for eight years.

Paul Curtis

Paul’s background over the past 25+ years has been in design,
post-production, cinematography and VFX (Lost In Space,
Dragoncharm, Prince Valiant). More recently he’s been
producing films and directing a short.

Sasha Collington

Sasha is a writer/producer. She is currently in post production on her first feature film, Love Type D and is currently developing her second feature, Another Anna. Sasha was one of 4 writers to win the inaugural Betty Box and Peter Rogers Comedy Writing Award in partnership with Big Talk Productions.

Thembisa Cochrane

Thembisa is a creative producer who works in association with Caspian Pictures and Spier Films where she has a variety of international films in development. She is currently in post-production on US AMONG THE STONES (2017). Previously, she worked as an executive for Spier Films UK.

Zillah Bowes
Zina is a filmmaker and writer. Her debut as director, SMALL PROTESTS, was nominated for a Grierson Award and won the Current Short Cuts Award and Best Short Documentary at the London Independent Film Festival. Since then she has directed films for BBC and Channel 4.