Learning & Events Committee

09 November 09

Krishnendu Majumdar (Chair)

Producer/Director

Krishnendu is an award-winning director. He won the John Brabourne Big Five Film Award and a Mental Health in Media Award in 2008. He was nominated for a BAFTA in 2005 for his directing and also as Best Director in the Broadcast Young Talent awards. He has been uniquely trained on both the prestigious BBC Production Trainee scheme and the ITN News Trainee scheme.

At the BBC he worked on a range of output including Watchdog, Newsnight Review, Art That Shook The World and at BBC Films and BBC Radio Drama. At ITN he worked as a producer across all of the output - ITV News, Channel 4 News and Five News.

He is currently developing his first feature film Deep Cut with Andrew Eaton at Revolution Films and also directing a major TV series – Karl Pilkington’s Seven Wonders of the World, Exec Produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Films produced and directed include: The Happiness Salesman; True Stories: What’s Killing Darcus Howe? (More4 / C4) Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth (C4); The World’s Smallest Man and Me (C4); Michael Howard: No More Mr Nasty (BBC2); Coked Up Britain (Sky) and the BAFTA-nominated Who You Callin' A Nigger? (C4).

Sarah Baynes

Managing Director, The Creative Garden & The Talent Garden

Sarah heads up The Creative Garden which nurtures creative development by executive producing projects and in a variety of consultancy roles. She also runs The Talent Garden which utilises her NLP Master Practitioner Skills to coach and mentor excellence in both on and off-screen talent. She started her career in television at Channel 4 in the News & Current Affairs department. She worked on the implementation of the channel's early morning service, covering the Channel 4 Daily and weekend programming (including news, arts, sport and children's programming). In 1992, she was part of the team that commissioned The Big Breakfast. She has worked on various other projects, including the launch of the channel's website. In April 1998, she took up the position of working as part of the entertainment department focusing on Children's programmes and T4.

Peter Barron

Awaiting Biography

Anna Butler

Awaiting Biography

Nikki Christie

Awaiting Biography

Michael Gubbins

Michael Gubbins is a journalist and consultant working in the film and digital media. His consultancy work has included projects and reports with organisations including BAFTA, UK Film Council, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Swedish Film Institute, CineRegio, Europa Cinemas, UK Industry Trust and Hogarth Pictures. He works closely with Olsberg SPI on consultancy work and is a director of the Screenwriters Festival, an associate consultant with Power To The Pixel and an advisory board member of Met Film School. He was editor of Screen International between 2004 and 2009 and has written for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines including The Times and Time Out. He is used frequently as an expert by broadcasters and has chaired and spoken at more than 60 industry events and festivals on issues ranging from screenwriting to new digital cross-media projects.

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm began his career working for a number of the UK’s leading independent film production companies before founding his own company Greenroom Digital in 2000.

Today Greenroom Digital is recognised as the UK's leading digital agency for the film and entertainment business, winning several awards in 2008 including the BVA Agency of the Year and the HEW Agency of the year. Jon has also won a number of personal multimedia awards for his work on Sony PlayStation.

In 2007 Jon launched a new venture, Entertainment Intelligence (EI), one of the UK's first social media research and development agencies.

In April of 2008 Greenroom's position as a market leader in digital advertising and multi-platform content was recognised by IPG when Momentum Worldwide acquired Greenroom and EI.
Today Jon’s responsibilities include; Managing Director of Greenroom Digital, Executive Creative director of Momentum Worldwide and running a multiplatform production company, Greenroom Entertainment, with his brother Nick. Earlier this year Jon was the executive producer on Greenroom Entertainment's production Fresh! for the BBC.

Patrick Keegan

Patrick joined Freud Communications as unit publicist on the agency's breakthrough television account The Big Breakfast in the early 1990s. From this high profile role, he went on to represent some of that decade's most high profile programmes including Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday and presenters such as Chris Evans and Ant and Dec, joining the company board in 1999. He continues to spearhead the agency's Entertainment-led accounts on behalf of broadcasters (BSkyB), independent production groups (Shine Group), social media (bebo), on-screen talent and industry bodies, representing BAFTA's Television and Film Award ceremonies, the latter for the past thirteen years. In addition he has led agency campaigns for public bodies including Visit London and worked on the successful bid for the London 2012 Olympics.

Recently, he has applied his broadcasting experience to advertising-funded programming models, Executive Producing the multi-territory live music broadcast of the 'Guinness 250' celebrations earlier this year. A regular broadcast commentator on both television and radio over the last ten years, he has presented long running slots on both BBC London and latterly LBC, where he can currently be heard each Saturday morning with Ken Livingstone.

Neil Peplow

Neil Peplow is Director of Film at Skillset where he is currently developing and implementing the films skills strategy for 2010 - 2013. Neil has worked in the film industry for sixteen years starting as a runner at Ealing Studios in 1993 and going on, through positions as a Producer at Gruber Films and Head of Production at the Film Consortium, to co-produce, produce, executive produce and act as head of production on some 16 films including Shooting Fish, Waking Ned, Mike Bassett: England Manager, My Summer of Love, The Proposition, Bright Young Things and most recently FAQ About Time Travel. He has also acted as a co-executive producer on the Showtime TV series LA LA Land. Since gaining an MBA from the London Business School in October 2007, Neil has worked extensively as a business consultant within the media industry. Neil has also lectured at the NFTS and the Media Business School.

Ade Rawcliffe

Ade has experience working as a Producer across both the BBC and the independent sector. Her Channel 4 credits include: Big Brother, Right to Reply, Extraordinary Ancestors and The Big Breakfast. At the BBC she worked as a Producer at the Athens Olympics for BBC Sport, as well as in Entertainment and Features on shows such as Star Spell and A Question of Sport.
Ade's role at Channel 4 is to work with commissioning departments to encourage diversity in production teams and onscreen, as well as spearheading diversity initiatives across the channel and the independent sector. She is always looking for ways to develop diverse talent ranging from entry level to Commissioning Editor or Executive Producer. Channel 4 recently unveiled a series of initiatives that renew its commitment to reflecting the diversity of modern Britain, both in front of and behind the camera; building on its track record of portraying contemporary society in all its variety.

Maggie Rodford

Maggie Rodford is Managing Director of the Air-Edel Group, incorporating one of the world's leading music publishing and production companies, representing composers worldwide. The company has offices in London and Los Angeles.

Maggie trained as a music engineer and prior to joining Air-Edel worked at both the BBC and EMI. Maggie works closely with Air-Edel's composers, producing and co-ordinating music recordings. She is the Producer for Patrick Doyle and recently has finished the score co-ordination for Dario Marianelli on Atonement. She was the music producer for Miss Potter and also for the French and Flemish cast recording of the musical Tintin - The Temple of the Sun and has worked as music producer, co-ordinator and supervisor on many prolific films scores including The Soloist, The Last Station, Agora, Gosford Park, Bridget Jones' Diary, Gladiator, The Lion King, Beyond the Sea, Copying Beethoven, Pride & Prejudice, Eragon and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire amongst other projects.

Jenny Waldman

Jenny Waldman is an independent arts consultant with wide experience of arts programming, management and education. She created the public events strategy for Somerset House and has continued to develop the programme there since it opened to the public in 2000. As well as developing the ice rink and concerts series, she created the successful Summer Screen film season, screening films on a large outdoor screen to audiences of 2000 people each night, alongside a programme of talks, shorts and events. She has also developed programmes for Tate Modern and Tate Britain and was for five years Director of Arts Centre Programmes at the Southbank Centre.

Jenny is a Trustee of DV8 Physical Theatre, Longplayer Trust and sits on the National Theatre Board's Education Committee.

Ian Wall

Educated at the University of York where he studied English and Related Literatures, went on to teach at the famous London Comprehensive school, Holland Park.
In 1985, he founded Film Education. The organisation has expanded from producing printed study materials to developing CD ROMs, running In Service training for teachers, and producing television programmes for the BBC Learning Zone and Channel 4 Schools on Film related topics. Wall has developed over 50 television programmes, both as producer, director and scriptwriter.

As director he is in charge of developing educational policy and ideas for publications, events, CD ROMs and television programmes.

Film Education has become increasingly involved with digital resources and the use of digital video in education. Wall was the producer of the 2004 BAFTA-winning Interactive CD ROM King Arthur. In 2007 Ian won his second BAFTA as producer of the interactive resource Recollections, based on Holocaust survivor testimony.

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