Louis Marie Malle was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony; the award was instead presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards. Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times.
Anne Wood, CBE is an English children's television producer, responsible for co-creating shows such as Rosie and Jim with Andrew Davenport. She is also the co-creator of Tots TV and Teletubbies. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award.
Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
Layke Anderson is a British film director and former actor.
Peter Kosminsky is a British writer, director and producer. He has directed Hollywood movies such as White Oleander and television films like Warriors, The Government Inspector, The Promise, Wolf Hall and The State.
Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand-born novelist, playwright, television writer, and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the biographical films The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
Charlie Hanson is a British producer and director. His award-winning work includes television shows such as Desmond's, Chef!, The Big Impression, The Sketch Show and Whites, and the 2003 feature film A Way of Life.
The Iris Prize, established in 2007 by The Festivals Company, is an international LGBT film prize which is open to any film which is by, for, about or of interest to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex audiences and which must have been completed within two years of the prize deadline.
Dog Altogether is the first short film to be entirely written and directed by Paddy Considine. The term 'Dog Altogether' comes from an Irish expression that Paddy's father used to use when situations got really bad. It was filmed on 22 January 2007 in Glasgow.
Dog is a BAFTA-winning stop motion animated short film written, directed and animated by Suzie Templeton. The film was made at the Royal College of Art in 2001.
Adam Stafford is a musician and filmmaker based in Falkirk, Scotland. He was the lead singer and songwriter with critically acclaimed Scottish band Y'all is Fantasy Island as well as an award-winning short film maker and solo artist. Stafford was born in Sunderland, England in 1982. In the late 1980s his family moved to Falkirk, where he still resides.
Michael Ferns is a Scottish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his debut feature film Kirk about the life of Reverend Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle. The film won the 'Best Independent Feature' at the Festival of Fantastic Films and also earned Ferns the 'Best Director' award at the 2010 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards.
Up There is a 2011 British feature film comedy-drama, written and directed by Zam Salim and starring Burn Gorman, Kate O'Flynn, Aymen Hamdouchi, Chris Waitt, Jo Hartley and Warren Brown. It is financed by the UK Film Council, BBC and Creative Scotland. It is based on Salim's short film "Laid Off". The film had its world premiere at the International Film Festival of Mannheim-Heidelberg on 18 November 2011. It won the award for Best Feature Film at the 2012 British Academy Scotland Awards, and was broadcast on BBC Two in August 2015.
The Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) is an international film festival which takes place annually in York, UK, at the beginning of November. The festival is a celebration of independent short film from around the world, and an outlet for supporting and championing short filmmaking. The programme includes film screenings, industry masterclasses, hosted networking sessions and panel discussions. ASFF showcases over 300 international films from emerging and established filmmakers in various venues across the city of York. Hosted by Aesthetica, the festival is supported by York St John University, the City of York Council and the British Film Institute.
Graham Hughes is a Scottish film director. He is possibly best known for his directorial work on the film A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide.
Alan C McLaughlin is a Scottish Director of Photography. He is perhaps best known for his work on the film Lost Serenity which earned him the Best Director of Photography accolade at the 2013 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards.
Graham Fitzpatrick is a Scottish Film director and Screenwriter.
Nina Gantz is a Dutch animation film director. Gantz is a daughter of the Dutch actress Loes Luca. In 2010 she graduated at the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost in Breda with the short animation film Zaliger which won a Golden Panda at the Sichuan TV Festival in Sichuan. In 2015 she graduated at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield with Edmond, a stop motion film with puppets. The film won amongst others the prize for best short animation film at the Sundance Film Festival and a BAFTA Award.
Campbell Beaton is a British producer.
Will Anderson is a Scottish-born film animator, living and working in Edinburgh, best known for his award-winning short animation The Making of Longbird.
