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 Commissioning Editor for Documentaries at the BBC. Since arriving at the BBC three years ago she has been responsible for a broad range of titles from Stephen Fry: HIV and Me to Tribal Wives, the Bafta winning Evicted, Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimers, Repossessed and Beryl's Last Year. 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 (BBC Three), Kidnap Ronnie Biggs (Channel 4) and The Other Side, Channel 4's new talent strand for first time directors. Her career began 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).

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.

Jenny Barraclough OBE
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.

John Battsek
has a background in theatrical distribution and marketing with various studios including Palace Pictures, Working Title and Miramax Films, John moved into feature film production, joining Passion Pictures in 1997. John conceived and produced the company’s first film into production, 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 Lifeftime, In the Shadow of the Moon, My Kid Could Paint That and Sergio, which premiered at Sundance 2009.

Mandy Chang
A BBC trainee, Mandy has been a freelance director/producer for over a decade. She has made documentaries for all the British broadcasters and for major international broadcasters and has won many awards including a Grierson. As well as specialising in music and arts docs, her work covers a wide range of genres. Programmes worked on include Hello Culture, Visions of Space, The State of Texas, Sons of Cuba, Howard Goodall’s Great Dates and The Mona Lisa Curse – which was nominated for an RTS award and recently won a Rose D’Or. She is currently working on documentaries in China, Australia and the UK.

Peter Dale
is the founder of Rare Day, a media production company. Until August 2008 he was 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
was until recently a partner at London law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, specialising in corporate and commercial work for the media sector. Her clients included major broadcasters, independent production companies, government departments and a range of organisations connected with the television and publishing industries. As a lawyer she helped to launch a number of UK and European television channels and online services. She now chairs The Bell Educational Trust, which provides English language training worldwide.

Chrisopher Hird
was the co-founder and joint managing director of Fulcrum TV for more than twenty years. In January 2008 he established Dartmouth Films, to concentrate on producing documentaries, since when he has executive produced Cameron's Money Men for Channel 4; Lionel Mills' Inside the Saudi Kingdom for BBC Two and Mario and Nini for Sky. He is also executive producer of Rupert Murray's The End of the Line, which premiered at Sundance in 2009 and Tracy Worcester's Pig Business for More4. From 2000-2004 he was the chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, is currently the chair of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and is a trustee of Index on Censorship and the Wincott Foundation.

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.

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 is Chair of Film Education and a visiting Professor at Lincoln University. He has served as Vice Chair of the British Film Institute and o f 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, a West End stage show with Gyles Bradreth and 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, Golden Compass, Inkheart 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.