GARETH BOWEN

Bio

Gareth is an artist and filmmaker and alumni from Central St. Martins. His last short, RACE FOR THE CURE, starring Neil Bell (DEAD MAN’S SHOES, DUNE, PETERLOO) is a fast-paced, urban thriller shot on the streets of Leicester Square and Tottenham Court Road about a wannabe filmmaker who loses his film.

Currently, he is in production for his latest film THE LICENSED FOOL, made with support from BFI NETWORK South East – a dark comedy, cosmic horror that follows a group of travelling jesters in medieval Britain. THE LICENSED FOOL is being produced under Grody Tavern and After Party Studios.

Writer-director

BFI NETWORK short: NOT DARK YET

Based in: Suffolk Contact: hermione.sylvester@yahoo.co.uk

Hermione Sylvester

Bio

Hermione is a filmmaker from Suffolk. She currently works in the camera department whilst making short films and music videos in her spare time. Her most recent short, FUEL (2020), starred Olivia Vinall (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017), Angus Wright (Peep Show, The Courier) and Mary Roscoe (Unrelated, Exhibition). It was selected for the London Short Film Festival 2021, FilmBath 2020 and Fright Fest 2020.

Based in: London Contact: jamie@afterparty.studio

Isabella De Rosario

Bio

Isabella is a short film producer and TV drama development executive. Her previous short film credits include LURKER (dir. Charlotte George, 2019) which was part of the Directors UK Arri/Trinity Challenge and selected for Leeds Young Film Festival and Moscow International Children’s Film Festival, and PUJA NIGHTS (2013) which was part of Film London’s London Calling and selected for the London Short Film Festival and Regiofun.

She currently works for Me+You Productions across their drama, film and comedy slate as their development executive. Prior to working for Me+You, she script-edited AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (BBC/ The Alliance) at Slim Film+TV. She was previously a development executive in the Channel 4 Commissioning team, working across 4Screenwriting and the New Writing North Schemes, and also worked for the BBC Drama Commissioning team.

Jamie Macdonald

Bio

Jamie Macdonald is a BAFTA-nominated producer in film and TV across fiction, documentary and animation.

He started working in the production department and then for producers in the studio system before stepping up to produce. He’s produced numerous BFI-supported shorts and has two features being supported by their early development fund.

Recently, he produced a six-part online comedy-stunt series for Netflix and co-produced a feature documentary, and is currently working on a slate of feature films and short form projects.