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.

Joanna Dewar Gibb

Joanna has worked extensively in UK film and television production, business development and international project management for companies including Portman Productions, Zenith Productions, Ladbroke Films, Impact Pictures, Samuelson Productions, Thin Man Films, The Moving Picture Company, the BBC, the British Film Commission and TRC Media. She also worked in LA on secondment to Walt Disney Studios, 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers.
In 2006, physical special effects company, Artem Ltd, asked her to establish its Scottish workshop, where she is Business Manager, overseeing all aspects of the company including co-ordinating delivery of SFX projects, marketing and business development. Joanna is also a co-founder of Screen Facilities Scotland, a new trade body that co-ordinates, promotes and lobbies on behalf of Scottish facility and service companies.

Andrew Lockyer

Andrew Lockyer has worked at BBC Scotland for over twenty years, most recently as Executive Producer of The Review Show and the arts documentary strand ArtWorks Scotland. Over the years he’s also worked on magazine shows, large-scale live OBs and a daily radio show and has collaborated with many of Scotland’s major arts and educational institutions. He’s a keen theatre-goer and music fan and sits on the board of The Scottish Ensemble.

John McKay

John McKay is a Scottish writer and director – his movies credits include Crush with Andie Macdowell and Imelda Staunton, Piccadilly Jim with Sam Rockwell and Frances O’ Connor; John's TV work includes lead direction on Lip Service, The Whistleblowers, Robin Hood and The Canterbury Tales (where he gave Billy Piper her first starring role), as well as single dramas A Waste of Shame with Rupert Graves and Tom Sturridge (RTS nomination, Best Single Drama), Reichenbach Falls, and his film on the love affair between David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton We'll Take Manhattan.

John is currently in pre-production on indie feature comedy Not Another Happy Ending with Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber.

“People ask me what sort of drama I like to direct – I always reply, I like to make drama with strong characters, great stories and a sense of style and wit.”

Paul Murray

Paul Murray is currently head of Objective Scotland. He was previously Creative Director at STV Productions where he came up with the BBC hit Antiques Road Trip. Prior to that he worked with Piers Morgan on various BBC 1 series, was MD of Endemol Scotland, Head of Factual at Wark Clements and a series Producer at Ideal World where he created Location, Location, Location. He is currently also a board member of Glasgow’s Tron Theatre.

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.