28 June 10
Everything we do in Scotland relies on the expertise, knowledge and hard-work of key industry experts across the country.
Claire Mundell (Chair)
May Miller (Deputy Chair)
Sandy Ross
Robbie Allen
Alan de Pellette
Morag Fullarton
Diane Henderson
Craig Hunter
Peter Lawson
Andrew Lockyer
Douglas MacKinnon
Amanda Millen
Sheila Grier
Celia Stevenson
John O'Neill (Treasurer)
Brian Baglow
Gill Petrie
Claire Mundell |
May Miller |
Sandy RossSandy 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. |
Robbie AllenRobbie Allen is a Production and Development Executive for Creative Scotland and currently manages a £3 million Digital Media IP fund. He was previously an independent producer of theatre, film and television, and is the recipient of a BAFTA in Scotland Award. |
Alan de PelletteAlan de Pellette is a writer, director and producer. He made his first short film in 2001, and he won Best International Director for his short Declarations at the 2009 New York Independent Film Festival. He recently completed his first feature and is sent to start his second. |
Morag FullartonMorag Fullarton began her career in the theatre before training on the BBC Drama Directors Course. She has been directing television drama for nearly two decades including many BAFTA winning dramas such as Cardiac Arrest, This Life, Rebus and the Emmy nominated At Home With the Braithwaites which she produced and directed. She has also written for the Comic Strip, Taggart and is currently writing a childrens book. She is passionate about increasing the industry's profile in Scotland and creating more work opportunities. |
Diane HendersonDiane Henderson is the Deputy Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. |
Craig HunterCraig Hunter is an Executive Producer for KEO north. Starting his career in the BBC’s Natural History Unit Craig was a staff member of the BBC’s Documentary department in London before moving back home to Glasgow to work for IWC Media. As a staff Producer Director for IWC media, Craig was responsible for some major commissions, including Channel 4’s Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe, BBC1’s Britain’s Lost World and C5’s Animal Babies. |
Peter LawsonPeter Lawson is a lawyer practising in Glasgow with interests in the media and entertainment industry. Currently he is Chairman of the Tron Theatre Glasgow and is legal advisor to a number of public funded arts organisations. He is a Director in Raindog Limited, a film and tv production company, based in Glasgow. |
Andrew LockyerAndrew Lockyer is a series producer in the Factual department of BBC Scotland. He has overseen the ArtWorks Scotland strand since it began and has also produced or executive produced series such as Edinburgh Nights, The DVD Collection, The Cinema Show, Dickens in America and Barrymore on Broadway as well as classical music and opera. His cinematic tastes include Woody Allen (when he was funny), Hollywood musicals, gripping thrillers and Yellow Submarine. |
Douglas MacKinnonDouglas MacKinnon has directed over 50 hours of network TV drama and one feature film, as well as producing and exec producing for BBC Scotland. In the past year, he wrote a report for the Scottish government on the state of the television sector in Scotland. |
Amanda MillenAmanda Millen is a development producer with HIE (Highlands and Islands Enterprise) which aims to develop and nurture a thriving and economically viable independent production sector. |
Sheila GrierSheila Grier has been acting since graduating from the RSAMD in 1980. She played Sandra Maghie in Channel 4's Brookside in the mid 1980's which was a real learning curve and opened many doors. She has worked in many TV productions over the years including amongst others: Heartbeat, Sea of Souls, Taggart, Still Game, Doctors and Lip Service. Film work includes Shadow on the Earth by writer/director David Kane, and short film work includes My Daughter's Face. It was through winning a best actress award for this film that Sheila was invited to join BAFTA 12 years ago. |
Celia StevensonCelia Stevenson comes from a broadcasting background having worked in both radio and television. She was Chief Executive of Scottish Screen Locations before it became part of Scottish Screen and was their Head of Inward investment and Communications prior to retiring in 2010. |
John O'Neill |
Brian BaglowBrian 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. |
Gill PetrieGill Petrie is the Marketing Manager for STV, Scotland's digital media company and pre-eminent media brand that reaches over four million people per month. Having gained a degree in Communication and Mass Media from Glasgow Caledonian University, Gill leads the marketing team at STV and is responsible for on air, online and external facing brand promotion. This includes popular programming such as Taggart, The Football Years and Underbelly, as well as digital and commercial initiatives such as the STV Player and STV Jobs. Gill and her team have secured numerous marketing accolades including multiple Scottish Advertising Awards for the 2010 Fifa World Cup campaign and most recently a Marketing Star Award for the Taggart campaign. |
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