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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

HARRY WILLIAMS AND JACK WILLIAMS (Written and Created by, Executive Producers)

Harry and Jack Williams’ first original production was the six-part drama “Roman’s Empire” for BBC Two/Tiger Aspect. Starring Matt Horne and Chris O'Dowd, it aired on BBC Two in April 2007.

They followed this in 2008 with the 6x60mins comedy drama “Honest” starring Amanda Redman for ITV/Greenlit. Jack has written for all seasons of “Wild at Heart” and together they wrote the comedy “Amazing Dermot” for Rough Cut TV which transmitted as part of the C4 Comedy Lab Pilot season in 2009. Their “Full English” was commissioned by C4 for 6 episodes with Harry and Jack producing themselves through their company Two Brothers Pictures and was animated by , known for their work on “” and “.”

In 2014 they wrote and executive produced the first installment of “The Missing.” Their four-part series, “One Of Us,” aired on BBC One in August 2016. Starring Juliet Stevenson, Joanna Vanderham, , Joe Dempsie, Georgina Campbell and Laura Fraser, it was a co-production between Two Brothers Pictures and BBC Scotland. Their six-part series “Rellik”  a thriller for BBC One, with New Pictures co-producing  will shoot in February 2017, and their six-part series “Liar” began shooting in October 2016, starring Ioan Gruffudd and , produced solely through Two Brothers Pictures.

They executive produced the six-part comedy series “” for BBC Three and through Two Brothers, written by and starring Phoebe Waller Bridge, which was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Awards. They will also executive produce the eight-part thriller “White Dragon” for ITB, written by newcomers Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood.

WILLOW GRYLLS ()

Willow joined Charlie Pattinson and George Faber's Company Pictures at its in 1998, working initially in , on Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar (2002) and ' A Room for Romeo Brass (2000) before moving on to produce Penny Woolcock's Mischief Night (2006). Willow then moved across into a creative television role, becoming producer and series producer for television commencing with Martina Cole’s “The Take” (2009) starring and “The Runaway” starring Alan Cumming, both for Sky. “The Take” was nominated for an RTS Award and “The Runaway” was nominated for an International Emmy Award in 2010.

In October 2013, Willow joined with Charlie Pattinson and Elaine Pyke to launch New Pictures. At its inception, New Pictures was greenlit for production on two series: “The Missing” for STARZ and BBC1 and “Indian Summers” for and WGBH. Both shows were ratings hits and critically acclaimed.

She is also executive producing “Rellik,” a new six-part thriller series by Harry & Jack Williams for BBC1 and “Requiem,” a six-part supernatural thriller by Kris Mrksa (“The Slap”) for BBC1.

CHARLES PATTINSON (Executive Producer)

Charlie Pattinson set up New Pictures in April 2013 and is the CEO. The first installment of “The Missing” was nominated for two Golden Globes (Best Miniseries, Best Actress) and three BAFTAs (Leading Actor, Supporting Actor, Drama Series). New Pictures has also produced two series of “Indian Summers” for Channel 4 and WGBH, starring . “Indian Summers” was Channel 4’s highest rating drama launch for 20 years. Thriller series “Rellik” has been commissioned by BBC One for filming in early 2017, as well as a supernatural drama, “Requiem,” which goes into pre- production in 2016. New Pictures was acquired by All3Media in December 2015.

Prior to his work at New Pictures, Charlie set up Company Pictures with George Faber in 1998 and grew it into one of the UK’s largest Independent Television and Film Drama production companies.

Charlie’s Producer and Executive Producer credits include “Our In The North” (BAFTA and RTS awards), “The Lakes” (BAFTA award), “Elizabeth I” (three Golden Globes), ten seasons of “Shameless” (C4 – numerous BAFTA and RTS awards), seven seasons of “Wild At Heart” (ITV), seven seasons of “” (BAFTA and RTS awards), seven seasons of “George Gently” (BBC One), “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” for HBO (two Golden Globes, 15 Emmys), “The Devil’s Whore” (RTS awards), “The Take” (Sky) starring Tom Hardy, “The Runaway” (Sky), “The Shadow Line” (BBC One) and more recently “The Village” (BBC One) and “The White Queen” (STARZ and BBC One).

ELAINE PYKE (Executive Producer)

Elaine Pyke joined New Pictures in 2014 and previously worked on the British drama “Indian Summers” which aired on Channel 4.

Prior to this she was at BSkyB where, during a hugely successful period as Controller of , she oversaw a 15% year on year increase in channel share and a move into original scripted drama.

Bold commissions under Elaine’s watch included “The Tunnel,” “Hit and Miss,” created by Paul Abbott, BAFTA award-winning “Hunderby” and “Penny Dreadful,” a co-production with Showtime. The role also oversaw all acquired programming for the channel including “Boardwalk Empire,” “Mad Men,” and “.”

In her previous role as Head of Drama at Sky, Elaine launched a raft of new dramas including “Strike Back” and “Mad Dogs” which have achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic in addition to two collaborations with Charlie Pattinson – “The Take” and “The Runaway.”

EURYDICE GYSEL (Executive Producer)

CZAR TV is the fiction department of Brussels-based production company CZAR BE. Founded in 2000, CZAR BE is one of the most creative production companies on the international market, generating many awards including twenty Lions at the prestigious advertising festival in Cannes. In 2010 Eurydice Gysel became executive producer of the company and co-jointly leads the department of CZAR TV.

STARZ & BBC’s “The White Queen” and “The Missing” were the first two CZAR TV productions. Both productions received nominations at The Golden Globes, People’s Choice Awards, BAFTA TV Awards and others.

Eurydice has produced the feature films Ex Drummer and May 22nd, both directed by Koen Mortier. She was the executive producer of the short films A Gentle Creature, Rivers Return, Perfect Drug and Feel Sad for the Bunny all of which featured at international film festivals. Eurydice and Koen also co-produced Borgman (in competition at Cannes) & Schneider vs Bax (Locarno) both by Alex van Warmerdam, Supernova by Tamar van den Dop (Generation section of the Berlinale 2014) and L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Locarno & TIFF). Their latest feature Waste Land directed by Pieter van Hees, starring Jérémie Renier, had its world première in Toronto (TIFF) in the Vanguard section. They are currently developing 3 features films: Coureur by Kenneth Mercken, Angel by Koen Mortier and True Biker by Lieven Van Baelen.

COLIN CALLENDER (Executive Producer)

Colin Callender is a Golden Globe, BAFTA, Tony® and Emmy® award-winning television, film and theater producer who founded the and -based production company Playground in 2012.

Callender began his career as stage manager at London’s working with and Sam Sheppard. He won his first Emmy® for the television adaptation of the RSC’s “Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.”

Playground has produced over 50 hours of television drama garnering 15 Emmy nominations, 20 BAFTA nominations, including 5 wins, and 11 Golden Globe nominations, including a Golden Globe win for Best Miniseries. Recent productions include the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA, Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning miniseries adaptation of ’s “” starring , and for the BBC and Masterpiece, RTS winning and BAFTA-nominated television adaptation of ’s “” starring Ian McKellen and and directed by for the BBC and Starz, “The White Princess” a limited series for Starz based on the bestselling book by Phillippa Gregory, and Ken Lonergan’s upcoming adaptation of E.M. Forster’s “Howards End.”

On the theater front, Callender’s first outing as a producer was the Tony® nominated Broadway production of ’s “,” directed by George C. Wolfe and starring . Other productions include ’s “,” Ken Branagh’s New York debut in “Macbeth,” “The River” starring , and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” for which Callender won a Tony for Best Musical Revival. Callender, in partnership with Productions and Theatrical Productions, is currently producing the record-breaking West End play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

Prior to Playground, Callender was the long-running president of HBO Films, responsible for an array of award-winning films and miniseries including “,” “” and ’s Palme D’Or winner Elephant. Under Callender’s leadership, HBO Films garnered an unprecedented 104 Emmy® Awards, 29 Golden Globes, 9 Peabody Awards®, 12 Humanitas Awards, 3 Oscars®, and top awards at the four years in a row.

In 2003, Callender was awarded the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty the Queen, and a Knighthood in the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours list for his services to British film, theatre and television in the .

SCOTT HUFF (Executive Producer for Playground)

Scott currently serves as Senior Vice President of Development and Production for Playground, overseeing its full slate of projects across television and theater. Huff is an executive producer on the eight hour limited series “The White Princess,” airing on STARZ in 2017. Previous television credits include multiple Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated productions including “Wolf Hall,” “The White Queen,” “The Missing,” “Dracula,” and “The Dresser.” In the theater, he is associate producer of the award winning London hit “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” and previously was associate producer of Tom Hanks’ debut in Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy” on Broadway. He was recently named one of ‘Hollywood’s New Leaders’ in Television by Variety.

JULIAN STEVENS (Producer)

Julian Stevens started working in television drama production as an assistant director on dramas such as “Foyles War,” “Hustle” and “Spooks.”

With an eye for learning the skills of drama development, he moved into script editing, working alongside such talented writers as Lee Hall on an adaptation of the much loved classic “Wind in the Willows” for BBC One and CBC, Peter Berry on his five-part conspiracy series “The Last Enemy” for BBC One and WGBH and Andrew Davies on his adaptation of Sarah Walters' “Affinity.”

Joining the newly formed Artists Studio as Head of Development, Julian went on to develop, script edit and see produced the adaptation of Mark Billingham's Inspector Thorne , Sleepyhead for Sky Drama and the thirteen-part network series “Combat Hospital” for ABC and Shaw Media. Julian then developed the original series “The Fall” with Allan Cubitt and went on to produce the first two

seasons of the BAFTA-nominated series for BBC Two and , starring and .

Julian has since produced some of the most ambitious co-productions originating from the UK including “The Tunnel: Sabotage” for Sky Atlantic and Canal +, and most recently the second installment of “The Missing” for STARZ and BBC One.

BEN CHANAN (Director)

Ben Chanan trained as an editor and cut dozens of documentaries, including titles for Channel 4’s “Cutting Edge” and BBC 2’s “Storyville” such as “Shooting Bigfoot,” and the BAFTA-nominated “Taxidermy: Stuff the World.” He moved into factual directing with documentaries such as “Locked Up Abroad” and “Guns Are Cool,” which won an RTS Education Award. In 2012 he worked with Raw TV, gaining access to counter-surveillance operatives at the CIA, the Metropolitan Police and US Homeland Security to tell the inside story of “The Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes,” for which he won the BAFTA for Best Director, Factual.

Along with writer Joe Barton, Ben co-wrote and directed Blackout, a feature length ‘found-footage’ drama that imagined Britain in the wake of nationwide cyber-attack. He went on to direct episodes of Carnival Films’ RTS-nominated drama series, “The Last Kingdom” and the BAFTA-nominated BBC mini-series “Our World War.”

In 2015 Ben wrote and directed two original thrillers for Channel 4: the critically acclaimed “The People Next Door” and “Cyberbully,” which was nominated for the best single drama BAFTA and won the Prix SIGNIS at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. He is directing all eight episodes of the second installment of “The Missing.”

GARRY PHILLIPS (Director of Photography)

Garry Phillips studied at Queensland University in , graduating with a Bachelor of Surveying Degree, then returning a few years later to tertiary education to pursue an Arts degree in Communication.

Over the following years, Garry was fortunate to be able to work with Russell Boyd ACS ASC, Dean Semler ACS ASC, David Gribble ACS, David Lewis ACS, Garry Wapshott among many other fine cameramen and women. Garry learnt his craft on the job and worked his way through clapper- loading, focus-pulling and camera operating to finally in 1993 commencing work as a freelance cinematographer.

As Director of Photography, Garry has shot, Jonathan Teplitzky’s Better than and Gettin’ Square; Samantha Lang’s The Monkey’s Mask; and Neil Armfield’s Candy, which world-premiered at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, starring , Abbie Cornish, and . In 2005, Garry shot Catch a Fire, directed by Phillip Noyce in South Africa. Garry has collaborated again with Teplitzky on in 2010, and most recently on The Railway Man starring and .

Recently, Garry has photographed for television “Old School” for the ABC Network and “The House of Hancock” for Channel 9 in Australia. For the , “Indian Summers 2” and most recently “The Missing 2.”

In 2015, Garry was named ‘Australian Cinematographer of the Year’ by the Australian Cinematographers Society.

LILI DANG VU ( and Make-up Designer)

Lili Dang Vu is a Belgian based makeup artist and creative designer for several European projects.

After finishing a makeup/ SFX and hair education in Paris, she started an internship specializing in SFX makeup at Zero FX (Spain), which was followed by a position working for Fabrik Artistik SFX (Belgium). There she specialized in applying and coloring prosthetic pieces and worked as a makeup designer for various jobs such as catwalk shows, theater, advertising campaigns, and editorial shoots. After being the department head for makeup on a television series called “Cordon” (of which there is an American remake- “Containment”), Lili was employed on a number of different international films including Mike Figgis’ Suspension of Disbelief, Tom Geens’ Couple in a Whole, and Raf Teyntjens' Paradise Trips.

RHONA RUSSELL (Costume Designer)

Rhona Russell is an established costume designer in film and television. Film credits include Bluelight Productions’ Neds (winner of Evening Standard’s ‘Best Film’), Gabriel Films Limited’s Afterlife (Audience Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and selection in the London Film Festival), and Parallax Pictures’ My Name is Joe (selection in the 1998 Cannes Film Festival). In television, she has most recently designed costumes for BBC’s “Jonathan Creek,” BBC1’s “The Casual Vacancy,” and BBC1 and ITV Studios’ “Shetland.”

DOMINIK SCHERRER (Composer)

British-Swiss film composer Dominik Scherrer received an Emmy nomination for his score on the first series of the "The Missing," and in 2014 received the Ivor Novello award for his soundtrack for the BAFTA winning Victorian crime series “Ripper Street." New productions this year include the lavish Paris-set haute-couture drama “The Collection" for Amazon, and BBC’s thriller miniseries “One of Us.”

Past credits include the sci-fi series “Primeval," all films of the Emmy-nominated “Agatha Christie’s Marple” series (ITV/PBS), for which he was also Ivor Novello nominated, the London-set comedy feature Scenes of a Sexual , starring Ewan McGregor, and the apocalyptic comedy The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz. He also scored a number of award winning Italian feature films such as Tutto Parla di Te, starring Charlotte Rampling, Riprendimi and In principio erano le mutande.

Dominik also creates the soundtracks for art installations, notably for artist Suki Chan. He composes and directs and opera for the screen. His award winning film-opera Hell for Leather, premiered at Sundance, formed part of the Young British Artists exhibition ‘Sensation’ at the Brooklyn museum.

PAUL CRIPPS (Production Designer)

Paul is a London-based production designer and art director who has worked across both television and film. He also served as production designer on the first installment of “The Missing” for STARZ and the BBC.

His Production Designer film credits include Albatross (2011) which was directed by Niall Maccormick and starred Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones, The Scouting Book for Boys (2009) which was the highly regarded first feature of “” director Tom Harper, and Andrew Douglas' Uwantme2killhim (2013) for Anonymous Content.

Paul was Art Director for 's multi award-winning (2010) written by Alex Garland and featuring , and Andrew , 24 Hour Party People (2012), which won the BIFA award for Best Achievement in Production; and was London Art Director for Dredd (2012).

Television credits for Production Design include “Sugar Rush” (2005) for Channel 4, which won an International Emmy® Award for Youth Programming and marked the first television role for Andrew Garfield. His other credits include “You, Me and the Apocalypse” for NBC and (2016), the season 4 British episodes of “Bones” for Fox (2008), “Atlantis” for BBC and BBC America (2013), seasons 1-3 of “As If” (2001) for Channel 4, “Hex” (2004) for Sky One and BBC America, the first season of Mistresses (2008) on BBC, The Borrowers (2011) for BBC, A Mother's Son (2012) for ITV, and the final season of Skins for E4 (2013).

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