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Jeanie Finlay is one of Britain’s most distinctive and prolific documentarists. Making films with steel and heart, telling intimate stories for international audiences.

She has made acclaimed and award winning feature documentaries for HBO, IFC & BBC Storyville, supported by Field of Vision, Bertha, BFI Doc Society, Wellcome Trust and many more.

Select titles include: Sheff Doc Fest audience winner Your Fat Friend; Bifa nominated Seahorse; Emmy nominated Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch; Bifa winning Orion; Bifa & Grierson nominated The Great Hip Hop Hoax; and one of the first crowd funded films in the UK; SOUND IT OUT. Her work is known for engaging with audiences in innovative and memorable ways.

Jeanie is a Chicken & Egg Awardee with retrospectives of her work at Criterion, MOMI NYC, The British Film Institute, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and True Story. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by Nottingham Trent University for her services to documentary.

She is making her tenth feature film.

Suzanne Alizart is an experienced film business affairs professional committed to supporting independent film makers.She has worked with UK funders, producers and directors on a raft of fiction and documentary films with more recent projects including Your Fat Friend, Donna, Nothing Compares, A Bunch of Amateurs and A Story of Bones.

She is a creative thinker, team player and enjoys a strong cocktail every now and then.

Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven visual journalism unit that commissions filmmakers and artists with developing and ongoing stories around the globe.

Charlotte Cook is a curator, writer and producer.

Prior to Field of Vision, she was the Director of Programming at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival. In London, Charlotte was the Head of Film Programming at The Frontline Club. She has also worked with BBC Storyville, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where she curated the strand Conflict | Reportage.

In addition to her work at Field of Vision, Charlotte is currently a programmer at CPH:DOX.

Shanida Scotland is Director and Head of Film at Doc Society, leading the global film strategy across the organisation. Formed in 2005, Doc Society funds, champions and advocates for Independent documentary filmmakers globally.

Description goes hereSandra Whipham is one of the five co-directors of Doc Society. She heads up the Democracy Story Unit, which will bring storytellers into an ecosystem with academics, activists, journalists and social scientists to think together about what narratives about democracy are most needed and most effective.

Previously, Sandra managed the BFI Doc Society Fund, distributing National Lottery funding to UK filmmakers. She has also been a producer and commissioning editor at Channel 4.

Stewart Copeland is a transdisciplinary artist with a passion for emergent media, new narrative genres, and artistic research. His art often incorporates technology as a means to explore, dissect, and interrogate technological systems themselves. Collaboration across disciplines plays a major role in his practice, particularly in the field of science where he often works with biologists, engineers, ecologists, and wildlife management personnel.

He has worked as a director, producer, designer, musician, photographer, carpenter, and webmaster. Now primarily focused on teaching and making art. He has taught at the University of Illinois and the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico where he teaches Experimental Art + Technology.

Editor Alice Powell has worked on a varied slate of documentary, fiction and artist film since graduating from the prestigious National Film and Television School in 2007.

Her award winning work has been screened internationally at festivals including Berlinale, SXSW, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Tribeca and Hot Docs. She has worked with artists including Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing and her documentary, 'The Closer We Get' by Karen Guthrie won the Best International Feature at Hot Docs and Best UK film at Open City Documentary Film Festival 2015.

She edited the BFI supported 'Even when I fall' which was nominated for a BIFA Discovery award in 2017, and the BBC documentary 'Seahorse' which was nominated for 'Best Documentary' at the BIFA awards in 2019.

Tara Creme’s music encompasses film, concert and theatre and she has enjoyed collaborations on a wide range of award-winning work from the UK and beyond.

Recent feature scores include March for Dignity, My Friend the Polish Girl and Finlay’s Seahorse, and her concert work has been performed by major musicians including Brtten Sinfonia, Hebrides Ensemble, Onyx Brass and Charles Owen.

She is currently working on a new documentary score and an album for prepared piano with pianist Siwan Rhys.

Rebecca Day is a qualified psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, and a former documentary producer. She founded Film In Mind, a therapy service for filmmakers, in 2018 to address mental health in the film industry. She combines her therapeutic skills with over a decade of documentary production experience to offer consultancies, workshops and therapeutic support to filmmakers working in difficult situations and with vulnerable people. She is also a co-founder of DocuMentality, an international research project currently in action that will lead to the creation of an online support space for documentary makers. She has been invited as a guest speaker and mentor on panels and at workshops at events such as IDFA, IDA Getting Real Documentary Conference, WIFTV, Berlinale and Sheffield DocFest.

Pip Norton is Re-Recording Mixer with years of experience mixing the sound for film and TV.

She first worked with Jeanie Finlay in 2008 and has since mixed many of her documentaries. She is equally at home mixing fiction, including Maternal for TV and the film, The Railway Children Return.

Alongside re-recording she has mixed the ADR for directors such as Tim Burton, Spike Lee and Kenneth Branagh.

Anna is Sound Designer who specializes in sfxs, foley and dialogue editing.

She works across film, animation, tv drama and documentary. She has worked on several of Jeanie's films including Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Orion and Your Fat Friend.

Recent projects include the Golden Reel Best Sound nominated indie ‘Publish or Perish’ and Channel 4 series ‘True Love’. When not in the studio editing or recording she can be found out in the field, capturing anything and everything from birds to bridge vibrations, underwater screams, streams and electromagnetic static.

As a music supervisor for well over a decade Graham Langley has sourced and licensed music for a huge range of film and TV productions (including most of Jeanie’s films) for BBC, A24, Apple, Netflix and Amazon.

He is a trusted pair of ears, and expert in copyright research and licensing. He is also songwriter and founder of the minimalist slowcore band Savoy Grand.

Lindsay Trapnell is a director, cinematographer and Emmy award-winning producer.

She has helmed projects in thirteen different countries. When she’s not traveling with a camera, she enjoys spending time with her wife and their two dogs and cat at home in Portland, Oregon.

Michael Palmieri is a Portland based filmmaker, musician and multimedia artist who has worked extensively in documentaries, commercials, music videos, and live cinema performance. He is often collaborating with other filmmakers as a cinematographer, editor or composer. His films have shown at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, NYFF, True/False, Locarno, Leipzig and Kosovo.

His first feature OCTOBER COUNTRY won the Grand Jury Prize at Silverdocs, received two Cinema Eye Honors, and was nominated for a 2009 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. His most recent feature film THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA premiered at SXSW in 2018, released by Kino Lorber and POV in 2020, backed by Field of Vision. His latest project is a live cinema and musical performance piece with Donal Mosher called SPECTRAL TRANSMISSIONS which has been performed at IDFA: On Stage in Amsterdam, The First Look Festival at MOMI Queens, The Portland Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Modern Art, and Pop-Up Magazine.

He has recently collaborated visuals for the stage shows of the artists Daniel Lanois, Lonnie Holley and more, and his music video director credits includes work for Sharon Van Etten, Beck, The Strokes, and The Foo Fighters.

Photographer and filmmaker, occasional writer and musician.

Co-director at Wishbone Films with Mike Palmieri.

Work includes: Spectral Transmissions, The Gospel of Eureka, October Country and Off Label

Mark Bushnell is an experienced camera operator working across many sectors, specialising in documentary.

Mark has worked with Jeanie Finlay on films including Your Fat Friend, Seahorse, Game of Thrones the Last Watch and Orion The Man Who Would Be King.

Vicki Matich is a highly experienced colourist who has worked with directors including Danny Boyle, Paul W.S. Anderson and Sir David Attenborough.

Matich’s credits include Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me, Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain, The Last Survivors, 8 Days To The Moon and Back, Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag, War in the Blood, Stath Lets Flats and Jerk.

Sol Baish is an animator and motion graphics specialist.

He also knows a thing or two about vfx, 3D modelling, video and audio production. With 10 years experience running Bru Studio Limited - producing impactful content for the commercial sector - Sol is keen to explore fresh opportunities and projects in new creative fields.

Cambria Matlow is a film director, writer and editor based in Portland, OR.

An IFP Documentary Lab Fellow and winner of Oregon Film/Playa’s Screenwriting Award, her moody storyworlds have been broadcast on Al Jazeera and PBS and screened in festivals and cinemas worldwide.