BAFTA in Scotland Committee

Claire Mundell
Chair, BAFTA in Scotland

Claire Mundell is an award-winning producer with over 16 years experience at both at single camera director, creative producer and executive producer level, Claire’s debut feature film, Crying with Laughter recently premiered at The Edinburgh International Film Festival ’09 and was nominated for The Michael Powell Award. As Co-Creative Director of Synchronicity, Claire creates, develops and writes film and TV drama properties for the UK and International market with business and creative partner Justin Molotnikov. Claire spent 10 years in network production at the BBC, where she moved quickly up the ranks to become senior management covering all aspects of production on the way including research, celebrity booking on Saturday morning live show Live and Kicking and Fully Booked, to single camera directing, producing and then Executive Producing.

In her time at the BBC Claire gained a thorough understanding of network production, working across a range of genre including live studio entertainment, factual entertainment and drama. Before joining the BBC, Claire was a production Manager and Researcher working in the independent sector. She sits on the Board of Independent cinema, Glasgow Film Theatre and is also a regular External Assessor for the Lottery Panel of Scottish Screen.

Robbie Allen

Robbie is the Portfolio Manager for Film and Broadcast Partnerships at Creative Scotland and currently manages a £5m lottery fund for the development and production of film and television. He was previously an independent producer of theatre, film and television, and is the recipient of a BAFTA in Scotland Award.

Andrea Gibb

Andrea Gibb is a Scottish film and television writer. She wrote the feature films ‘Dear Frankie’ and ‘Afterlife’ which won her the Scottish Screen Filmmaker of the Year award and the Women In Film and Television script award in 2005. She was also nominated for a Scottish BAFTA and the Carl Foreman award at the BAFTA Awards for ‘Afterlife’.

Since then she has worked on a range of projects including adaptations of Rose Tremain’s ‘The Road Home’ (BBC) Vikram Seth’s best selling novel ‘An Equal Music’ (Cuba Films) and an adaptation of ‘The Boggart’ for the Henson Company. She has just finished writing a drama about Alzheimer’s for BBC2, is developing a three part series about the Suffragttes (BBC1) and her big screen adaptation of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ is due for production next year.

Andrea is an active member of several committees including the Writers’ Guild film committee. She was an actress for many years before starting to write and was a regular character on All Creatures Great and Small for three seasons.

Andrea lives and works in Glasgow.

Diane Henderson

Diane Henderson is the Deputy Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Ian Mackenzie

Ian MacKenzie is Media Project Manager for Channel 4’s Creative Diversity team. His role encompasses creative content commissioning and project management across a diverse, multi-genre portfolio of TV & Digital companies in Scotland and Wales and the West of England; as well as portfolio responsibility for Channel 4’s external stakeholder engagement in those nations & regions. Ian acts as both an enabling commissioner for new talent; and a first point of contact for established independent production companies in helping Channel 4 to deliver on its commitment to diversity of supply; nations commissioning and innovation. Previously Ian was Acquisitions Manager at Channel 4 DVD, leading on rights acquisition on hit properties including The Inbetweeners, Misfits and Skins.

His work prior to joining Channel 4 was with the BBC’s commercial joint venture 2entertain, where his role as Acquisitions Executive encompassed acquisition and brand management of marquee BBC brands including Doctor Who; Robin Hood; Dad’s Army & Morecambe & Wise

Amanda Millen

Amanda Millen heads up ScreenHI, an independent production company based in Inverness, responsible for nurturing and developing the independent production sector across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as well as strengthening links with broadcasters, public bodies and agencies in order to raise the profile of practitioners based in the Highlands and Islands. Amanda is also one half of goNORTH, Scotland leading Creative Industries festival that takes place annually in Inverness in June.

Sandy Ross

Sandy Ross has worked in the television industry for over thirty years. He is currently working as an independent producer with his own company Murrayfield Media. Previously he worked for Granada TV and Scottish TV as a producer and programme executive. Sandy is a previous Chair of BAFTA Scotland and is the current chair of the Salford Conference on Television from the Nations and Regions.

Sarah Walmsley

Sarah founded Raise the Roof Productions in 2010 with Jane Muirhead, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer.

As Creative Director she has overseen the development and production of 50 hours of television in the past two years including Kirstie & Phil’s Perfect Christmas, Vacation, Vacation, Vacation, Kirstie’s Handmade Britain and Phil Spencer: Secret Agent for both prime time and daytime and Phil’s Empty Homes Giveaway which formed part of C4’s Property Scandal season. She’s currently overseeing a further 55 hours of programmes which are due to TX in 2012 including Kirstie’s Vintage Home and a new More4 series. She’s also produced Kirstie and Phil’s House Hunter App which was released in 2011 and two books to accompany Kirstie’s series.
Previously Sarah was Head of Features for IWC Media, where she produced programmes such as Location, Location, Location;
Relocation, Relocation; Best and Worst Places to Live: 2005, 2006 & 2007; Dolce Vito – Dream Restaurant; Kirstie’s Homemade Home; and Relocation: Phil Down Under and Wreck or Ready. Her other credits include Time Team, Property Ladder and Food and Drink.

Brian Baglow

Brian Baglow has been bothering the games industry for some time now. His current role of Media Monkey/Policy Advisor at Denki is helping to set the company up for a new direction focusing entirely on original new intellectual property and self-publishing in the rapidly evolving games and interactive sector. Prior to joining Denki Brian founded and ran the independent communications agency. While running Indoctrimat Brian also created and continues to run the games industry blog ScottishGames.biz. Brian also worked for three years on a voluntary basis as the Screenings Director of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, the UK's first and only cross-media event celebrating the art and culture of videogames. Brian is also a visiting lecturer at Napier University's Screen Academy, where he works with film production and screen writing students, introducing them to the interactive sector and providing them with a basic grasp of the interactive world and the opportunities for the transference of skills from the film and television sectors.