TEAM Elizabeth Wood - Director, DocHouse Elizabeth is a producer/director who has had her own production company since 1980. She has produced and directed numerous documentaries for UK television and spent six years in the US working as a freelance director. She has executive produced several young filmmakers for the BBC and ITV and C4. Elizabeth studied at the New York University Graduate Film School and has enjoyed an extensive teaching career. She lectured in film at the Visual Arts Centre, Harvard University where she was also executive director of the 'Harvard Bi-centennial Exposition'. In the UK she has taught in the Royal College of Art's Film and TV Department, and the National Film and Television School. She is an external examiner for several UK undergraduate and post-graduate film departments, and acts on the selection committee for the NFTS in Documentary and the Advanced Programme. She has also been a jury member on The Grierson Awards, BAFTA and pre-selects international docs for the One World Broadcasting Awards. She is also a member of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Advisory Board. Vanessa Gray - Festival Producer Vanessa managed the filmmaker liaison department of the Edinburgh International Film Festival for 2 years and has worked at a number of film festivals including Sundance and Rotterdam. She previously worked for BAFTA Scotland, Celtic Media Festival and Moonstone International Filmmaker & Screenwriter Labs. She was assistant coordinator of an independent community cinema in Oaxaca, Mexico during 2005/2006 where she learnt Spanish. Before joining DocHouse, she was working as Tartan Films' event coordinator during the London Film Festival 2006. Chloë Lambourne - Screenings Coordinator Chloë has been running DocHouse screenings and masterclasses since September 2005. Previous to this she has worked as a project manager for the TheVideoArtFoundation, for projects promoting artistic activity related to video art, coordinated '25hrs' a major exhibition of International Video Art in Barcelona, Spain, and has managed the production of Fine Art Books for Unicorn Press, including complete illustrated catalogues for the National Portrait Gallery and The Wallace Collection. In 2006 she completed a master degree in history of Film Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London. Anne-Louise Wirgman - Event Organiser Anne Louise has over twenty years' experience working in theatre, music, film and arts education, running venues such as The Albany Empire, and The Waterfront, Norwich. She has worked on a variety of festivals including The Almeida at Malvern, Islington International Arts and the Jewish Arts Festival as well as producing a variety of UK theatre tours for the Almeida and Young Vic Theatres. Deepa Patel - Event Organiser Rozy Sarkis - Festival Assistant Rozy Sarkis completed an Art Foundation Course in Nicosia, Cyprus before going to Hollywood to do a hands-on filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy. She then moved to the UK to attend The London College of Communication where she obtained her Bachelors degree in Film/Television. At University she specialised in documentaries and has worked on a number of both fiction and non-fiction films. Jane Callaghan - Festival Coordinator Jane is an experienced event organiser and has extensive experience in moving image media and documentary. She currently organises the British Documentary Awards for the The Grierson Trust which are televised by BBC Four. Other awards competitions and ceremonies she has organised are The Learning on Screen Awards, The Advanced Card Awards and the British Interactive Multimedia Awards (bima). Jane has organised conferences for the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Museums' Association, the Film Archive Forum and Reed Elsevier. Simon Ford Simon Ford is an executive producer of documentaries. His work for the BBC embraces a broad range of factual genres from pure observational like the The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities or The Hunt For Britain's Paedophiles through contemporary history - The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon and documentary investigations like The Secret Policeman. Many of these strands have come together in recent years with a merging of documentary and drama with productions like Get Carman; The Plot Against Harold Wilson ; The Hungerford Massacre or The Angel of Death. Consultants Roger James, Naomi Gryn, Professor Ian Christie. Picture Credits (left to right): THE NOT DEAD, Brian Hill MAXWELL, Colin Barr, courtesy of BBC GHOSTS, Nick Broomfield, courtesy of Tartan Films