Trustees

ChairmanDawn Airey

Dawn Airey is president of CLT-UFA UK TV and is one of the more colourful figures in British television. She has worked in the industry for more than 25 years, starting out as a management trainee at Central TV in 1985.

She joined CLT-UFA UK TV in September 2010 from Five where, as Chair and CEO, she oversaw the sale of the business to Northern and Shell.

Previously she was Managing Director, Global Content at ITV where she oversaw its UK and international production and content businesses. Prior to that, she was BSkyB’s Managing Director, Channels & Services, with responsibilities that included the multichannel operator’s wholly-owned and joint venture channels and their distribution to other platforms.

She has also held senior posts and Channel 4 and between 2000-02 was Five’s CEO, having been the broadcaster’s Director of Programmes at launch.

In addition to her executive responsibilities at CLT-UFA UK TV, Dawn is a member of the board of the British Library, a non-executive Director of Thomas Cook PLC and Love Films.

VICE CHAIRMANEmma Hindley

Emma Hindley is an executive producer specialising in history and documentaries at Silver River Productions. As a director and series producer, her credits included archive-based series The Lost World Of Mitchell and Kenyon and The Secret Life of The Motorway. Her recent credits as an exec range from Great Ormond Street; Harlots, Heroines & Housewives: A 17th Century Guide For Girls; Sex Story: 50 Shades of Grey to Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs.

VICE CHAIRMANCharlotte Moore

Charlotte Moore is Commissioning editor for documentaries at the BBC and is responsible for a broad range of films across all the channels from Welcome to Lagos, Between Life and Death, Terry Pratchett's Choosing to Die, Bruce Parry's Arctic, Lambing Live, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Poor Kids and The Bomb Squad. Previously she was Head of Documentaries at IWC.

Terry Back

Terry Back divides his work time between Grant Thornton International, where he is global head of Industries and Grant Thornton UK LLP, where he is a Partner in the Media and Entertainment group. He has worked with UK television businesses since the early '70s, when he met distributor Richard Price (for whom he still acts 40 years later). He works mainly with independent production and distribution businesses in television and film, from start ups through to public companies.

Mark Boyd

Mark Boyd is co-founder of new creative company, Gravity Road. Previously he was Creative Director and Head of Content at advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) and a Partner of BBH London.

Mark has worked across the different stakeholders in media and entertainment business: clients (mobile operator 3), media owners on content creators (Virgin Media and 3) and agencies (BBH, TBWA, Drum PHD). This breadth has allowed him to pioneer new content opportunities for brands beyond traditional advertising. These have included projects as diverse as games, books and social networks through to TV programmes and channels like The Audi Channel. These projects ran internationally. Mark has innovated with new ideas, new ways of working and particularly new business models.

He has worked recently on clients such as Unilever, Diageo, Audi, Barclays, Britivic, Vodafone and others. He was founder of the Branded Content Marketing Association.

Judith Chan

Judith Chan is currently a Director in the Media Banking division of Coutts & Co. She is responsible for originating new corporate business and developing new products for the Bank, and specialises in structuring film and television transactions.

Prior to Coutts, Judith was a Business Development Director at Ingenious Media plc (2002-2007), advisers and investors in the media and entertainment sectors. At Ingenious, Judith was responsible for managing three equity funds, principally investing in the television sector. The role involved sourcing, structuring and deploying and managing the investments, and reporting to investors.

From 1994 to 2002, Judith was a Relationship Manager at Coutts where she managed a portfolio of clients and headed up the Bank’s involvement in the film and television sectors.

Prior to this, Judith was an Analyst at NatWest Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of NatWest, in Los Angeles (1991-1994), working with the mini and major studios, and spearheaded the Bank’s involvement with the independents.

Judith is currently a Trustee of MediCinema.

Alex Cooke

Alex Cooke is CEO of Renegade Pictures, the company she founded with Alan Hayling, where she has produced a range of documentaries for both international and domestic broadcasters. Prior to this Alex directed United Gates Of America for the BBC, a one-hour documentary about race and immigration inside one of California’s largest gated communities. In 2005 she initiated and produced a ten part series for Discovery Times, Only In America, immersing herself in subcultures across the US and in 2004 made her debut feature documentary, How Arnold Won The West, a political satire following Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign trail to become Governor. Before directing Alex was the programmer of Sheffield International Documentary Festival from 1997 to 2001. From 1991 to 1993 she was a founder member and Managing Director of The Big Issue.

Emma Cooper

Emma Cooper is a Commissioning Editor in Factual at Channel 4. She commissions both single documentaries and series for the channel and also commissions the Cutting Edge strand. Prior to joining Channel 4 she was at the BBC for 14 years working across titles such as Mischief and Louis Theroux. She series produced and directed films such as Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles and Miami Mega-jail.

Simon Dickson

Simon Dickson is Creative Director of Dragonfly Film & Television Productions. Between 2006 and May 2011, he was Deputy Head of Documentaries at Channel 4, where he was responsible for the Channel's 9pm series strategy. His credits include 24 Hours In A&E; Amish: World’s Squarest Teenagers; Coppers; The Family; The Force; Meet the Natives; International Emmy winner The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off; The House of Obsessive Compulsives; and Cutting Edge docs Living With Brucie and A Boy Called Alex. He co-created and commissioned the highly successful Dragonfly series The Hotel, The Family, and One Born Every Minute (BAFTA Best Factual Series 2010), and has also dipped his toe into cross-platform TV, as the commissioner of 2010’s experimental multiplatform event, Seven Days.

George Duffield

George Duffield has been producing feature films under the banner of Arcane Pictures for 8 years. Feature credits include Summit's Dot the I starring Gael Garcia Bernal, which premiered at Sundance in 2003 and won the Deauville Audience Award and Milk. In addition he has executive produced Tonight at Noon, Black Box, and Live Free or Die. He has recently started producing documentaries including Olly and Suzi for BBC's Storyville and Rupert Murray's The End of The Line, which has received a worldwide theatrical release, and has been called "An Inconvenient Truth for the Oceans" by the Economist. On the back of the film’s success he has started a campaign to fund a global network of marine reserves. He is an international award winning wildlife photographer.

Jill Franklin

Jill Franklin is Founder of Franklin Rae, one of the leading PR agencies working in the media industry. Beginning her media PR career in BBC Radio, first at BBC Radio 3 and then at BBC Radio 4. Jill’s move to BBC Television saw her look after some of the BBC's most controversial documentaries, including the iconic strand Storyville. In 2001 she went freelance to work with both PSB and commercial organisations on public-facing and corporate campaigns, becoming PR adviser to some of the UK's leading independent production companies. Her success was the catalyst for setting up Franklin Rae Communications in 2003. In 2009 Franklin Rae was awarded the PR industry's 'gold standard' – the CMS – by industry body the PRCA, an accolade held by only 5% of PR agencies in the country. In 2011 Franklin Rae was acquired by James Grant Group.

Chris Harris

Chris Harris has worked as a cinema programmer for City Screen since 2007. City Screen is the owner and operator of Picturehouse Cinemas, Britain’s largest circuit of Independent cinemas. Formed in 1989, to challenge the modern multiplex, City Screen provides cinemas in city centre locations to serve local communities and offer a broader range of films. In 2009, Chris helped to launch the Picturehouse DOCS programming strand, which works with distributors and filmmakers to bring the best in documentary film to cinema screens. Films featured as part of Picturehouse DOCS include Burma VJ, Erasing David, The First Movie and Just Do It.

Christopher Hird

Christopher Hird is the founder of the documentary company Dartmouth Films, whose credits include John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See (2010), David Sington’s Sundance selected The Flaw (2011), Dan Edelstyn’s BFI London Film Festival selected How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire (2011), and Rupert Murray’s The End of the Line, winner of the 2011 Puma Award for social impact. He is a former chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, was the founding chair of the Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation and is a trustee of the Wincott Foundation and the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

James Hunt

James Hunt is Channel Director of Sky Arts and was previously head of programming for Sky Arts. Prior to this, he was an Executive Producer at Liberty Bell working on projects including Mariella Frostrup's The Book Show on Sky Arts. Other experience includes producing, editing and exec producing This Morning; helping to devise Loose Women and creating Better Homes, Better Gardens and Antiques Auction. He was Controller of Daytime and Lifestyle for Granada and Director of Programming for Granada Sky Broadcasting.

Morgan Matthews

Morgan Matthews has been making critically acclaimed documentaries for over ten years. Amongst his most notable early films were the feature length documentaries Taxidermy: Stuff the World and Beautiful Young Minds, both of which garnered award nominations from bodies including BAFTA, RTS and Grierson.

Morgan went on to set up Minnow Films, a company that has become known for its work with both exciting new talent and established award-winning directors. At Minnow Films, Morgan directed The Fallen, a three-hour film that paid tribute to every British serviceman and woman to have died whilst serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. As well as being nominated for a Grierson, The Fallen won an RTS and two BAFTA’s, including one for Best Factual Director. Most recently, Morgan was again BAFTA and Grierson nominated for the powerful Scenes from a Teenage Killing.