Kirsten Adkins
Kirsten is an artist and filmmaker whose practice combines artists moving image, experimental filmmaking and creative writing. She has a professional background in documentary television having previously worked at the BBC as a director and producer. This informs her practice and research. Her practice combines experimental and documentary practices to explore concepts of place and […]
Finlay Pretsell
Finlay Pretsell is a BAFTA winning filmmaker driven by the authenticity and rawness of non-fiction cinema. He arrived at filmmaking by way of a plethora of uninteresting jobs along with an unrealistic ambition of travelling the world racing his bicycle. Never having formally studied film or anything else and after exhausting all other options, he […]
Anne Milne
Anne Milne is a filmmaker, educator, and writer, based in Glasgow. As well as directing and producing documentaries, she is a co-founder of DocKlub and the DOCMA Collective. Her films have screened widely at film festivals and she is an alum of Berlinale Talents, and a European Film Award nominee. She has also worked with […]
Rebys James Hynes
Rebys James Hynes is a writer, curator and film programmer who works in the Junior Conservatoire department as a Programme Assistant. They are passionate about elevating intersectional art, and creating space for more stories about transness and neurodivergence. In 2025 they hosted ‘Being the Monster: The History and Future if the Trans-Killer on Film’, an […]
Titana Muthui
Titana Muthui is an actor and writer who writes with urgency, clarity, and conviction. A Black woman and recovering alcoholic, she creates work that is inseparable from her lived experience. Storytelling has always been her way of surviving the world, but sobriety sharpened her understanding of just how much representation matters—not only for visibility, but […]
Andrea Ferran
Andrea Ferran is a writer-director working in film and theatre. Her filmmaking has been supported by NI Screen, Screen Ireland, BFI, BBC and Channel 4, among others. She was awarded the National Theatre Leverhulme Directors’ Bursary and has been an associate artist at ENO, resident director at National Theatre Studio, and guest artist at Deutsches […]
Shira Avni
Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni is an Associate Professor of Film Animation at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she is the proud recipient of a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. Her previous animated documentary films (John and Michael, Tying Your Own Shoes, Petra’s Poem), in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, garnered over […]
Kate Russell
Kate Russell is an Australian filmmaker and video artist currently based in rural South Gippsland working across video projection, theatre and film installations. Her practice is to film and record landscapes, wilderness and seascapes in Australia and abroad. This has now extended to filming projections for community art projects and working with (It’s no) drama […]
Silvia Rossi and Elena Mazzi
Silvia Rossi is an Italian filmmaker based in Oslo. She earned a bachelor’s degree in cinema and theater at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and studied directing at the National Film School (CSC-Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Milan. She is a co-founder of “BOM Films,” a directors’ duo specializing in advertising, and “Peggy Høy,” a […]
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Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy
Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct […]
Ben Ramsay
Ben Ramsay is a writer and director of film and theatre from Kirkcaldy, Fife. He adores genre-driven storytelling, and his work often revolves around darkly comic circumstances, commentary on contemporary life in Scotland, and works that explore pockets of history that are often overlooked. Recent works include: ‘A Concrete Topiary’, produced by the Almeida Theatre’s […]