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WRITER-DIRECTOR – Kara Miller (Arawak Films): 

Winner of a Breakthrough Brits 2008 award award (the UK Film Council’s high end talent initiative that celebrates a new wave of British filmmaking talent who are on the cusp of mainstream success), Hitchcock Award, the Screen Nation ‘Best Emerging Talent’ award and shortlisted for the BBC’s New Filmmaker Award. 

Kara’s film directing credits include: Nobody The Great (2007 – Winner of Cinequest Film Festival’s Viewers’ Voice Audience Award for ‘Best Feature Film’); her award winning short films (Cheese Makes You Dream, Elephant Palm Tree and How to Make Friends) have sold to broadcasters such as HBO and the BBC and have screened at film festivals around the world including Sundance, Berlin and London. 

Kara’s writing credits include: Lolapalooza, a feature in development with Working Title Films; Boo! (22 episodes - BBC / Tell-Tale Productions) and Jim Jam & Sunny (20 episodes - ITV). 

Kara also has numerous writing credits in theatre and BBC Radio 4 – her most recent piece for theatre / Radio 4 Letting Yourself Go (White Open Spaces) ran for 3 weeks at the Soho Theatre, was broadcast in 2007 on Radio 4 (Woman’s Hour slot) and was nominated for a Southbank Show Award (Pentabus Theatre – White Open Spaces).

Current Projects 
Kara is currently developing two feature film projects: KILLER MILLER (a thriller set in Jamaica & USA) and BOOBS (a coming of age comedy drama).

 

PRODUCER – Louise Decoteau (Cinnamon Films): --- Louise is the producer of two award winning shorts: Money Talks and Concrete Garden, with BAFTA award winning director Alrick Riley, which were aired on BBC / C4 (and won numerous festival awards including Toronto , Munich and Chicago ). Her producing credits (commercials) include Cinema: Kodak 100th Birthday Ad, Children Society Awareness; and television: Keith Floyd - Breville Pie Maker, Do It All - B&Q, Lady In Waiting - Hovis Bread etc.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nick Tebbet: Drama credits include (for more credits, and examples of his work, see www.nicktebbet.tv ): --- "The Women In The Locked Room" (Directed By Leif Magnusson).  Winner of the The “SAMMI” Award. Swedish Television Award given to the best T.V. Drama of the year --- “The Fifth Element” (Directed By Luc Besson): Nick Tebbet 2nd Unit Director of Photography

EDITOR – Chris Gill: feature films include 28 Days Later and Millions; television includes Crime and Punishment (2002) and Strumpet (2001). 

PRODUCTION DESIGNER – Jonathan Taylor:  Feature films include My Night with Reg.  TV credits include Jonathan Creek (BAFTA Design nominated), Waking the Dead, Silent Witness – series 3, 4 and 5, Hawkins, Hope and Glory.

COMPOSER – Adrian Johnston: Feature films include Divorcing Jack, Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo .  TV series in 2002 include: White Teeth, The Lost Prince, Tipping the Velvet.

Awards: Emmy Award 2002 – “Outstanding Music composition for a miniseries, movie or a special (Dramatic underscore)” for Shackleton; Prix Italia (Music and Arts) 1999 for Shooting the Past (1998); BAFTA nominations for Perfect Strangers (2001) and Our Mutual Friend (1998).

Former member of The Mike Flowers Pops (recorded and co-produced Wonderwall, 1995)