Farah Abushwesha

FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a BAFTA-nominated producer and bestselling author. With roots firmly established in low-budget features and shorts, she has gone on to produce Netflix Original Irreplacable You with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huismann and Christopher Walken and Danny Huston's The ...

Anne Aubert-Santelli

ANNE AUBERT-SANTELLI and DAN WILLIAMS are a married writing duo based in Santa Monica, California. Anne is a French American who grew up in Paris, New York and Orange County. Dan comes from the far-off land of Texas. They met ...

Craig Batty

CRAIG BATTY is Executive Dean (Creative) at the University of South Australia. He is a screenwriter, script consultant and script editor, with experiences in short film, feature film, television and online drama. He is the author, co-author and editor of ...

Lucy Baxter

Lucy is an experienced managing director in the creative sector and has worked as executive and series producer, producer/director and production manager on shorts, features, drama series and documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and Al Jazeera. She ...

Celia Brayfield

Celia Brayfield spent seven happy years as a television critic on The Times in London. She has also reviewed regularly for BBC radio and TV programmes including Newsnight and Front Row as well as publications including the Evening Standard and ...

David Carter

Dr. David Carter taught at several UK universities and Yonsei University, Seoul. He published on psychoanalysis, literature, drama, film history and applied linguistics, and was also a freelance writer and journalist. He had more than 30 years experience with amateur drama, ...

James Clarke

James Clarke is the author of Movie Movements: Films That Changed The World of Cinema and a number of other film books. He has contributed to Empire, Imagine, Resurgence and Classic FM and has lectured on the subject of film ...

Alex Cox

Maverick British filmmaker Alex Cox is responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films from Sleep is for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman to Death and the Compass, Three Businessmen, Revenger's Tragedy, ...

Stephen Paul Davies

Steven Paul Davies is a writer and broadcaster based in Manchester. He was the youngest ever news presenter on national commercial radio, presenting on Virgin Radio UK, but left to set up the successful national PR company One Media. He ...

Luke Dormehl

Luke Dormehl is a journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. His films have appeared on Channel 4 and played in prestigious film festivals around the world, from Cannes to Rushes, garnering praise from luminaries such as Ken Loach, Louis Theroux and Simon ...

Stephen Follows

Stephen Follows is a writer, producer and storytelling consultant. His work has been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Times, Telegraph and Guardian, and he has taught at institutions such as the National Film and Television School, ...

Barry Forshaw

Barry Forshaw is one of the UK's leading experts on crime fiction and film. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, Nordic Noir, Italian Cinema, American Noir and British Crime Film. Other work: Sex and Film, British Gothic Cinema, Euro ...

Gianni Garko

Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich) is a Croatian-Italian actor. He found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns, where he was often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson. He is perhaps best known for his lead ...

Andy Glynne

Andy Glynne is a BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker, and is the Founding Director of DFG - the Documentary Filmmakers Group - the UK's national organisation to promote innovation and talent in documentary filmmaking. Andy is also Managing Director of the ...

Nikolai Gogol

Yvonne Grace

Yvonne Grace is a seasoned, award-winning television drama producer with 20 years experience in script editing, script development and drama production for CITV, ITV and BBC, and has worked on shows such as Eastenders, Crossroads, Holby City, The Ward and My ...

James Gracey

James Gracey has written for Film Ireland, Alternative Ulster, Paracinema and Culture Northern Ireland. He has also contributed to Drowned in Sound, Twisted Ear and Eat My Brains.

Karol Griffiths

Karol Griffiths has been a successful script supervisor, script editor and development associate for over 20 years. She has worked with companies such as Warner Brothers, Universal, Disney, Paramount and Fox Studios, as well as Amblin Entertainment, The Coen Brothers, Working ...

Charles Harris

Charles Harris is an award-winning writer-director for cinema and TV. With fellow professionals he co-founded the first ever screenwriters' workshop (now Euroscript) and teaches writers and film-makers from all over the world. He created Pitching Tuesday for the London Screenwriters' ...

Lucy V. Hay

Lucy V. Hay is an author, script editor and blogger who helps writers via her Bang2write consultancy. She is the associate producer of Brit thrillers Deviation (2012) and Assassin (2015), both starring Danny Dyer, and has consulted on a huge number ...

Derek Hill

Derek Hill has written for numerous web sites and publications such as The Third Alternative, Video Watchdog and The All-Movie Guide, and was a contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Derek currently lives in Portland, Oregon, ...

D K Holm

D. K. Holm has written for Willamette Week, PDXS, among other publications, and now has columns at Kevin Smith's MoviePoopShoot.com. He edited an anthology of Robert Crumb interviews for the University of Mississippi Press and has a forthcoming book ...

Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes is the author of The Pocket Essential American Indian Wars, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Films, Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns ...

Helen Jacey

Helen Jacey is a screenwriter, author, and story consultant who has developed numerous projects across film, TV, radio, advertising and fiction for the UK and international industry. Helen's first book The Woman in the Story (2010) has been described as the ...

Douglas Keesey

Douglas Keesey is a professor of film and literature at California Polytechnic State University. His published books include Neo-Noir: Contemporary Film Noir from Chinatown to The Dark Knight (Kamera Books) as well as Catherine Breillat, Don DeLillo, Erotic Cinema, Peter ...

Elliott H. King

Elliott H. King is an art historian specialising in Dalí and surrealism. He contributed to Dalí, The Centenary Exhibition (Thames and Hudson, 2004) and was involved in the 2007-08 exhibition, Dalí and Film.

Mikel J Koven

Mikel J. Koven is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film Studies at the University of Worcester. He has published extensively on the topic of folklore and film and is the author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the ...

Dan Laughey

Dr Dan Laughey is Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Music and Youth Culture and Key Themes in Media Theory. His two kids are technologically savvier than him.

Michelle Le Blanc

Michelle Le Blanc is a freelance author and film critic. She has co-authored books with Colin Odell about John Carpenter, Tim Burton, Horror Films, Jackie Chan, Vampire Films, Anime and Studio Ghibli and contributed to Wallflower Press's Alter Image and ...

Thandi Lubimbi

THANDI LUBIMBI is a barrister who has spent most of her working life in government. She has been practising criminal law since 2005, and in that time she has worked as a Senior Intelligence Officer for a law enforcement agency and ...

Seán Martin

Seán Martin is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He is the author of The Knights Templar, The Cathars, The Gnostics, The Black Death, Alchemy and Alchemists, A Short History of Disease and, for Kamera Books, Andrei Tarkovsky and ...

Brian Mills

Brian Mills is a film reviewer, movie therapist and author of Movie Star Memorabilia - A Collector's Guide. He has appeared on The Richard & Judy Show.

Tony Lee Moral

Tony Lee Moral is a documentary filmmaker and writer. He is the author of two previous books on Alfred Hitchcock: Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2002) and Alfred Hitchcock's Movie Making Masterclass (2013) a cinematic guide to the master of suspense. ...

Robin Mukherjee

Robin Mukherjee has written extensively for theatre, television, radio and film. His television work includes many well-known series, for which he has been a core writer, including Eastenders, The Bill, Casualty, The Roman Mysteries and Medics, along with critically acclaimed ...

Anthony Mullins

Anthony Mullins is a BAFTA and AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter. His first short film was selected for Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and one of his first television gigs was writing webisodes for the groundbreaking US television series LOST. ...

Alizée Musson

Alizée Musson is a script consultant, development mentor and writer working internationally in French and English across live-action and animation. Growing up between France and the Netherlands, she studied film production at the Arts University Bournemouth in the ...

Patrick Nash

PATRICK NASH is an award-winning writer of both short and feature length screenplays. A winner in Hollywood's Page Awards, he has also won multiple Arts Council Awards, a Lion Award, a Colorado Film Award, the Shoreline Scripts Feature Competition and ...

Colin Odell

Colin Odell is a freelance author and film critic. He has co-authored books with Michelle Le Blanc about John Carpenter, Tim Burton, Horror Films, Jackie Chan, Vampire Films, Anime and Studio Ghibli and contributed to Wallflower Press's Alter Image and ...

Alistair Owen

Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters and Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine's Books ...

Nathan Parker

Nathan Parker is a filmmaker and teaches courses in short filmmaking and cinematography at Central St. Martins in London.

Andy Richards

Andy Richards is a freelance film journalist and television producer. He has written for The Observer, Sight & Sound, Time Out, Uncut, The DVD Stack and Filmfour.com

Jonathan Sadler

Jonathan Sadler has been marketing filmed entertainment content since 1999, first at Universal Pictures as a senior product manager, before spending over 5 years at Momentum Pictures as home entertainment marketing director. He has since headed up marketing & PR at Revolver ...

Lucy Scher

Lucy Scher was director of The Script Factory, the UK's premier screenwriters' organisation. She devised the UK's first training course in script reading, developed the UK's only Diploma in Script Development and was an internationally recognised script developer. Sadly, Lucy ...

Karen Lee Street

Karen Lee Street has over twenty years international experience as a script development executive and workshop leader. She was instrumental in setting up the European Script Fund (now MEDIA Programme, development), the co-developer of numerous award-winning films from eighteen countries. ...

David Thomson

English-American writer David Thomson was educated at Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. After seven years at Penguin Books, he became a Director of Film Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire between 1977 and 1981. Perhaps best known for ...

Roland Thorne

Roland Thorne first discovered Samurai Films while completing a film studies major, and has been hooked ever since.

Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura wrote and directed the documentary I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work, and was curator of the Sundance Festival's 1989 Cassavetes retrospective. His screenwriting credits include Echo Park, directed by Robert Dornhelm. As a journalist, ...

Daniel Williams