Haley Dercher is a screenwriter who injects fresh, modern subject matter with warmth and wit. She crafts sharp, relatable, memorable female protagonists who are flawed yet fearless. Haley received her Master of Arts degree from New York University in Media, Culture, and Communication, with a concentration in Visual and Cultural Studies. The Screencraft Fellowship said […]
Debashree Mukherjee and Lotte Hoek are film and media scholars whose research engages the histories, practices and forms of global media. At Cove Park, we will develop ongoing monograph projects. We are part of the BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies editorial collective. Debashree Mukherjee is Associate Professor of film and media in the Department of […]
Working with teens in London’s Southbank University Academy who are regularly exposed to illegal levels of air pollution, and members of Hermitage Academy’s Eco Committee in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, artist collective East London Cable are co-producing a new film that explores climate justice and the uneven impacts of ‘net-zero’ climate policies. Shot in the […]
Amanda Verlaqueis a writer for stage, screen and VR. The MAC, Belfast produced her critically acclaimed debut play Distortion, and her radio play Lolly, which featured in their On the Street Where We Live audio series (which she also executive produced). She’s just made her debut as a director for VR with her short film Egg, produced by RETìníZE. Amanda’s career in […]
Bonnie MacRae is an award-winning writer and director with a drive to create work that gives platforms loud, pertinent, socially-fuelled Scottish stories head on. Bonnie is particularly interested in celebrating strong female characters, shining a light on the stories not always shown on screen. Her work has picked up accolades including Best Short Film and […]
The Edinburgh-based artist Juliana Capes returns to Cove Park in March 2022 following the award made to her last year of the Argyll Beacon Artist in Schools commission. Juliana is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who has exhibited most recently at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy and Edinburgh Art Festival. Her diverse artworks often […]
The Argyll Beacon Film Commission was awarded in November 2021 to the Scotland-based artists Rachel McBrinn and Alison Scott. The Commission is for a new moving image work connected to Scotland’s rainforests, the theme of the Argyll Beacon and the focus of Cove Park’s partnership with Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust (Act).This […]
Sebastian Thomas is a visual artist based in Reading whose practice spans sculpture, printmaking, installation, painting & film, central to which are the processes of collage & assemblage. Thomas work is concerned with the fevered relationship between the fiction consumed by the mind and the corporeal landscape and is particularly interested in how it creates […]