Trustees

ChairmanDawn Airey

President of CLT-UFA UK TV, 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

is a freelance executive producer working across a range of historical and contemporary documentaries. As a producer/director her credits include: Dreams on Ice, Channel 4; Living With Cancer, BBC One (RTS Award for Best Documentary Series) and Great Britons: Nelson, BBC Two. As a series producer at the BBC she was responsible for a number of archive based social history series including The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon and The Lost World Of Friese-Greene for BBC Two and The Secret Life Of The Motorway for BBC Four.

VICE CHAIRMANCharlotte 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

is Partner, head of Media and Entertainment Group for Grant Thornton and is responsible for the development of the firm's Media and Entertainment Group, with a particular operational focus on television and film. He is also a member of the oversight boards of both Grant Thornton UK and Grant Thornton International. After starting in the profession in the '70s, he took time out in 1980/81 to start up a motorcycle messenger business in Los Angeles. Soon after joining Grant Thornton in 1994 he started the Media and Entertainment Group, having specialised in advising independent television production companies. He is the author of the three Grant Thornton surveys on accounting for rights and revenues in UK film and television. He has also developed an LLP structure, raised finance for and personally invested in a UK independent feature film, giving him an invaluable insight into the film-making process from the other side of the fence.

John Battsek

conceived and produced Passion Pictures’ first feature, One Day in September, which went on to win an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary and an Emmy in 2000. John has since accrued a slate of over twenty acclaimed documentary films including Once in a Lifetime, Black Sun, In the Shadow of the Moon, My Kid Could Paint That and Sergio. Sundance 2010 saw the premiere of two new films: Restrepo, which opened the festival and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize, along with The Tillman Story which was acquired by The Weinstein Company.

Emily Bell

Emily Bell is Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Tow Centre for Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Previously she was director of digital content for The Guardian News and Media Group from 2006 to 2010. Before that Emily was editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited from 2001 to 2006. Under Bell, The Guardian received numerous awards, including the Webby Award for a newspaper website in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and British Press Awards for Website of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Bell first joined the Observer newspaper, which became part of Guardian News and Media, in 1990, as a business reporter specializing in media business, marketing and technology.

Mandy Chang

Mandy is an experienced freelance director/producer who has won many awards for her work, including two Griersons and an Emmy. Although Mandy's special passion is arts documentaries, her work is not exclusive to the arts. She has also made documentaries for both British and international broadcasters on a diverse range of subjects: drought in Australia, child boxers in Cuba, composers in totalitarian regimes and the politics and culture of Texas. Programmes include Hello Culture, Visions of Space, The State of Texas, Sons of Cuba, Howard Goodall’s Great Dates and The Mona Lisa Curse, which recently won a Rose D’Or, Grand Jury Prize for the Best Documentary at Banff, a Grierson and an Emmy.

Alex Cooke

is a Director at Renegade Pictures, the company she founded with Alan Hayling. Prior to setting up Renegade Alex Cooke directed United Gates Of America for the BBC, a one-hour documentary about race and immigration inside one of California’s largest gated community. In 2005 she initiated and produced a ten part series for Discovery Times, Only In America, immersing herself in subcultures across the US. In 2004 Alex Cooke’s made her debut feature documentary, How Arnold Won The West, a political satire following Arnold Schwarzenegger on the campaign trail to become Governor. Before directing Alex was as an editor and producer, for Channel 4 and the BBC and she 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 a newspaper an initiative for the homeless in London.

Mark Boyd

Mark 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.

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

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 Managing Director of Franklin Rae, one of the leading PR agencies working in the media industry. From Press & PR Manager at Railtrack and PR Manager at award-winning Ikon Gallery, Jill then worked for BBC Radio, first at BBC Radio 3 and then at BBC Radio 4 to work on the station's relaunch under James Boyle. A 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.

Chris Harris

Chris 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

is the founder of the documentary company Dartmouth Films. Dartmouth focuses on films which make a difference; pioneers new ways of funding and distributing films; and encourages new and emerging talent. His recent screen credits include Cameron's Money Men for Channel 4; Lionel Mills' Inside the Saudi Kingdom for BBC Two; Mario and Nini for Sky; and Rupert Murray's theatric documentary The End of the Line, which has been distributed worldwide. From 2000 to 2004 he was the chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival; he is currently the chair of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation; and is a trustee of Index on Censorship and the Wincott Foundation.

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

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.