CHAIRMAN Murray Weston
is Chief Executive of the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), which publishes the Researcher’s Guide to British Film and Television Collections and develops large-scale project initiatives, such as Newsfilm Online with ITN Source, to facilitate access to high-quality moving image content online. He has been script editor of films for Tokyo Cinema and for IWF Media Gottingen and produced science television programmes for the Vega Trust. He also worked closely with the late Andris Splapins in the documentary department at Riga Film Studio. He is Chairman of the Film Archive Forum UK, Vice Chairman of the Kraszna Krausz Foundation and a member of the History and Archive Committee of the Royal Television Society.

VICE CHAIRMAN Emma Hindley
began her television career in film editing. As a producer/director her credits include: The Lady Killers 40 Minutes, BBC Two; Dreams on Ice Short Stories, 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. Having recently left the BBC, she has resumed her freelance career

VICE CHAIRMAN Charlotte Moore
is a commissioning executive in Documentaries at the BBC, overseeing productions for the independent sector for BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four, and responsible for a broad range of titles from Stephen Fry: HIV and Me to Evicted, Widows Tale, Beryl's Last Days and Tribal Wives. Previously as Head of Documentaries at IWC Media, she was responsible for the BBC's Emmy award winning Stephen Fry; The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, 18 with a Bullet for BBC Three about street gangs in El Salvador, the drama doc Kidnap Ronnie Biggs for Channel 4 about the 1981 mission to snatch Biggs from Brazil, and Channel 4’s new talent strand for first time directors, The Other Side. Her career began as a freelance researcher and assistant producer, traveling to remote corners of the world to make films about cannibals, disappearing tribes and stolen art. As a producer/director, her credits include Lagos Airport, Channel 4, Great Britons: Churchill BBC Two and the RTS award winning series Living with Cancer. BBC One.

Jenny Barraclough
began her career as the only woman reporter on the ITV News team, moving on to become a producer on World in Action and This Week, and joining the BBC’s Man Alive in 1969. She made many notable documentaries including Gale is Dead, The Bomb Disposal Men, and Women in Prison as well as studies of international terrorism, civil rights, the monarchy, No 10 Downing Street, The Royal Academy and the London Symphony Orchestra. She has won many international awards including two BAFTAs, an Emmy, and a Venice Gold. She became Head of the BBC One Documentaries and in 1988 founded, with George Carey, the highly successful independent company Barraclough Carey (now Mentorn). For this she made major series on the history of AIDS, cancer and transplant surgery and is currently making more films on global health issues. She is Chairman of LEPRA UK and Trustee of the Razumovsky Ensemble.

Mandy Chang
has been a freelance director/producer for nearly a decade. She has filmed in over 30 countries and made over 20 films for major international broadcasters. Amongst her awards she is proud to include a Grierson for Best Arts Documentary: Visions of Space: God’s Architect. As well as specialising in music and arts docs like Hello Culture and Howard Goodall’s Great Dates, Mandy’s work covers a range of genres, from observational to polemical films like the opener to Channel 4’s Texas season: The State of Texas. Now executive producing, Mandy continues to develop and make programmes and is currently directing a feature length documentary for Channel 4 and producing Victory is Your Duty for PBS – a documentary on Cuba’s elite boy boxers in the last days of Fidel Castro.

Larry Chrisfield
is a leading tax adviser in the screen entertainment business, and a past Chairman of the Grierson Memorial Trust (2000-2002). After many years as head of the UK Entertainment and Media group of Ernst & Young, and chair of its Media European Network, he is now an independent adviser to the film division of AOL-Time Warner. He is also Chairman of Redbus Film Group; a director of Rainmaker Films; and a member of The British Screen Advisory Council.

Peter Dale
is currently the Head of More4, Channel 4's digital channel which launched in October 2005. He started television life in the cutting room, both outside and later inside the BBC. After directing his first documentary for the Everyman series in 1980, he went on to make documentaries for the next 18 years. As Head of Documentaries at Channel 4 his commissions included Tina Goes Shopping, Wife Swap, The Government Inspector and Jamie's School Dinners.

Ellen Fleming
is a partner at London law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, specialising in corporate and commercial work for the media sector. Her clients include major broadcasters, independent production companies, government departments and a range of organisations connected with the television and publishing industries. In addition to dealing with the set up, acquisition and disposal of companies and businesses in the media industry, she advises on regulatory issues, agreements for rights acquisition and licensing and distribution arrangements. She has helped to launch and continues to act for a number of UK and European television channels. She is a member of the Royal Television Society.

Marilyn Gaunt
is a social documentary filmmaker. A graduate of the Royal College of Art School of Film and Television, she has made over fifty documentaries for such major strands and series as True Stories, First Tuesday, 40 Minutes, Present Imperfect, Cutting Edge, Under The Sun and Real Life. Her films include Julia’s Baby, Class of 62, Why Blame The Mother?, Great House Wives, the multi-award-winning Kelly and Her Sisters, Living on the Edge and Lin and Ralph: A Love Story. She has executive produced the Metroland series for Carlton and for Channel 4, Short Stories. Her last film, Class of '62: from 16 to 60, the third in a trilogy of films about six of her old school friends, will be screened on BBC Two during 2008. She is an occasional lecturer at the National Film and Television School.

Angela Holdsworth 
is an independent executive producer. She began her television career in Current Affairs at the BBC working on political and investigative documentaries, before moving to Documentaries in 1978. She was author and series producer of the award-winning history series Out of the Doll’s House and strand editor of various programmes including Crimewatch UK and Taking Liberties. Since leaving the BBC in 1991, she has executive-produced numerous documentaries and series for the BBC and Channel 4, and was the writer and producer of the drama-documentary The People’s Duchess, which pioneered a new style of history programme.

Roger Laughton CBE
is currently Chair of South West Screen and Deputy Chair of the British Film Institute. He began his production career in the BBC where he worked in Bristol, Pebble Mill and Manchester before moving to London as Head of Network Features in 1980. He was responsible for a range of award-winning programmes including Live Aid and River Journeys. In 1986, he oversaw the launch of BBC TV’s new daytime service, including Neighbours. After a spell in charge of the BBC’s co-productions, he became the first CEO of Meridian, an ITV franchise winner in 1991. Later, following mergers, he led United Broadcasting and Entertainment for three years. From 1999 to 2004, he was the Head of Bournemouth Media School and also chaired a DCMS/Skillset enquiry into the training needs of the audio-visual industries.
Amongst other honours, he is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and was awarded the Society’s Gold Medal in 1999.

Kevin Macdonald
Kevin Macdonald's first feature One Day in September, won an Oscar for Best Documentary
in 2000.
His second feature, Touching the Void, won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 2004 BAFTA Awards and the Evening Standard Award for Best British Film, and it is the highest grossing British documentary in UK box office history.

His most recent film is, The Last King of Scotland, for which Forest Whitaker won a best actor Oscar and which was BAFTA nominated
for best film.

Kevin co-edited The Faber Book of Documentary (1997), and wrote Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (Faber, 1994, winner of BFI film book of the year and shortlisted for the NCR non-fiction prize). His journalism has appeared in numerous publications including the Guardian, Observer and Telegraph.

Edward Mirzoeff CVO CBE
has directed and produced numerous documentaries for the BBC, attracting record-breaking audiences to his portrait of the Queen during her 40th anniversary, and to studies of institutions including Scotland Yard, the Royal Green Jackets, Westminster public school, the Royal Opera House, National Trust and Ritz hotel. He made a series of enduring films with Sir John Betjeman, and has edited numerous series, from the innovative Bird’s-Eye View (shot entirely from a helicopter) to the award-winning 40 Minutes documentary strand. His many honours include four BAFTA’s – among them the Alan Clarke Award for outstanding creative contribution to television – the Samuelson Award, British Film Institute Television Award, British Video Award, an International Emmy, and the awards of the Broadcasting Press Guild and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Rick Senat
entered the film industry in 1970 working in the UK and the United States. He spent 25 years at Warner Bros. mostly as Senior Vice-President, Business and Legal Affairs, Europe. Projects with which he has been closely associated include the Harry Potter films, Greystoke, Batman, Superman and many more. He has served as Vice Chair of the British Film Institute and of the European Film College. He is a board member of Bank Leumi (UK) plc. Since leaving Warner in 2002 he co-produced Claude Lelouch's film And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, with Jeremy Irons, and a West End show: Zipp! with Gyles Brandreth. He has been a consultant to various productions including Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban, Troy, Alfie, Sahara, Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and several others.

Peter Symes 
is a freelance producer/director working mainly in the UK. Until 2000 he was employed by the BBC, where he had a long career as a director, producer and executive producer. From his own work he is perhaps best known for his documentaries with verse commentaries, one of which won the Prix Italia, and from his work as Editor for the series Picture This, which gave many young directors their first chance to make a full length documentary. He continues to produce and direct documentaries, and to be actively involved with the documentary-making community. In 2005 he became Head of the Discovery Campus Masterschool, based in Munich, an initiative designed to help individual filmmakers develop a specific documentary idea and raise co-production money to make it.

Jean Young
has worked in broadcasting regulation since 1992, responsible for regulating regional ITV in the South and South West for the Independent Television Commission and Ofcom. She began her career with the British Film Institute and was a Governor of the BFI from 1996 to 2002. She has worked in the public and commercial sectors of the television and film industries as Senior Commissioning Editor for BBC Subscription and Director of Programming for Premier, the BT/Maxwell cable television channel. She has also held programming posts with NVC, EMI and the National Film Board of Canada. She has been a member of the Grierson Trust since its original inception.