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#109: Katie Sinclair, Development Exec & Independent Producer
I am very excited to introduce this week’s guest, as she is both a friend of the podcast and a someone I consider to be a friend full stop. And that person is Katie Sinclair. Katie is an independent
#108: Renee Zhan, Director & Animator
My guest this week is Renee Zhan, a Chinese-American director and animator from Houston, Texas now based in London. She graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with a BA in visual and environmental
#107: Chi Thai, Independent Filmmaker & Producer
This week my guest is Chi Thai, an independent filmmaker & producer who works across features, documentary, animation & immersive. She has produced over 13 short films, been a Cannes Lion finalist thr
#106: Lizzie Gillett, Director of Feature Docs at Passion Pictures
This week’s interview is with Lizzie Gillet, the Director of the Feature Documentary Department at Passion Pictures, whose credits include the Oscar-winning SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Bart Layton’s THE
#105: Aisha Bywaters, Casting Director
My guest is Aisha Bywaters, a BIFA-nominated casting director whose credits include independent films such as Body of Water, County Lines, The Last Tree, Dirty God and Mari, as well as the TV series E
#104: Ruth Greenberg, Writer & Director
My guest this week is Ruth Greenberg, an award-winning screenwriter and director whose directorial debut RUN, a short film starring Niamh Algar from CENSOR, is currently showing on Short of the Week.
#103: Elhum Shakerifar, Documentary Producer
My guest this week is Elhum Shakerifar, a BAFTA nominated producer and winner of the 2017 Women in Film & TV's BBC Factual Award and one of Screen International’s 2018 #Brit50 Producers on the Rise. E
#102: Henrietta & Jessica Ashworth, screenwriters & directors
This week's guests are Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth! Hen and Jess are screenwriters, directors and twin sisters. Having penned their first script at 15, they went onto write OLIVIA AND JIM which ca
#101: Sandra Hebron, Head of Screen Arts at NFTS
My guest this week is Sandra Hebron, the Head of Screen Arts at the National Film and Television School where she leads the course for the MA in Film Studies, Programming and Curation. Previously Sand
#100: Rose Garnett, Director of BBC Film
My guest this week is Rose Garnett, the Director of BBC Film. Since joining the BBC in 2017, Rose has commissioned and Executive Produced a wide range of titles including… Joanna Hogg’s THE SOUVENIR a