Edge Hill University Institute for Creative Enterprise PROFILES
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Edge Hill University Institute for Creative Enterprise Northern Powerhouse and Film Policy th 30 September 2015 PROFILES Eddie Berg - Strategist/Consultant/Producer, Film, Creative, and Cultural Sectors Eddie Berg is an independent consultant specialising in film, digital and media arts with a successful track record of establishing and leading major cultural venues, capital projects and strategic change, as well as building new audiences, resources, world-class teams and wide-ranging national and international partnerships. From 2005 - 2014 he worked at the BFI, firstly as Artistic Director of BFI Southbank (leading the transformation of the venue) and then as Director of Partnerships where he was responsible for leading the BFI’s lottery investment in film exhibition, education and skills across the UK. He is also the Founder and former Director of the £11m FACT Centre in Liverpool which opened to popular and critical acclaim in 2003. Prior to that he was Founding Director of Video Positive, the UK's first major international festival of video and new media art. The biennial event featured commissioned works by both established and emerging artists and was a showcase for technological innovation. Eddie Berg is also Chair of ICE's External Advisory Group. Roy Boulter - Producer, Hurricane Films, Liverpool Roy runs Liverpool based production company, Hurricane Films, with Sol Papadopoulos. Prior to producing, Roy was a musician - drummer with the Liverpool band, The Farm - and a screen writer for Brookside, Hollyoaks, and for Jimmy McGovern's drama The Street. He has co-produced four feature films, 'Under the Mud'; Terence Davies's feature doc', 'Of Time and the City; and Terence Davies's two most recent feature films, 'Sunset Song' and 'A Quiet Passion'. 'Sunset Song', produced in 2014, stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie; 'A Quiet Passion', shot in 2015, features American actor Cynthia Nixon as the acclaimed and reclusive, American poet, Emily Dickinson. The movies produced by Hurricane Films have been selected for Cannes, Sydney, Toronto, Edinburgh and London film festivals. Sindy Campbell - Manager, Film Birmingham Sindy Campbell heads up Film Birmingham, which is Birmingham City Council’s Film Office. As part of its Film Charter, Birmingham City Council is committed to making filming as easy and efficient as possible, providing a free service for the film and television industry, and offering a one stop shop for filming requests. The use of the city as a film or tv location has grown rapidly in recent years under Sindy's stewardship, as the impact of regional film funds from Screen West Midlands and Creative England have been felt within the local film economy. ICE - Northern Powerhouse and Film Policy, 30th September 2015 Page 1 of 6 Sindy has also developed a wider role for Film Birmingham, facilitating film previews, regional premieres and television drama showcases, which complement the location specific role with a more cultural one, whilst drawing on her prior background working with FIERCE, an annual showcase of radical and experimental theatre. Erica Clarke - Partnership Manager, Creative Skillset Building on a dozen years of experience of working at Liverpool's Lime Pictures, Erica's current role at Creative Skillset as Partnership Manager brings her into contact and collaboration across the north with creative and digital companies - in TV, animation, games, VFX, film, fashion and textiles, and advertising and marketing communications - for whom Creative Skillset can provide co investment and other support measures. Professor John Diamond - I4P Director, Edge Hill University Professor John Diamond is the Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice at Edge Hill University. In 2014 he contributed to the Voluntary Sector North West Report – Devolution, Our Devolution. John has worked with the North West Regional Youth Work Unit on a number of different initiatives from compiling a dictionary of new terms and language for working across agencies to their Youth Parliament project and their recent report into Youth Employment – Simple Truths (2014). In 2015 he was invited to give the Annual Keib Thomas Memorial Lecture in London. He is currently the national chair of a charitable organisation the Association for Research with Voluntary and Community Organisations (ARVAC) and an independent director of the Lancashire based consortium Greater Together. He has had extensive experience of working as an evaluator for a range of agencies (including the Youth Justice Board, the Cheshire Children’s Fund, a number of regeneration agencies, the NHS, national charities and regional voluntary sector organisations). In 2014 he was a co-researcher on a national study funded by the Webb Memorial Trust which examined the role of Fairness Commissions and is working on a follow up study. He is co-editor of an annual series – Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management (published by Emerald) and is co-editor of the Sage journal Teaching Public Administration. He has externally examined PhDs at the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Bedfordshire and DBA at Napier. He is currently an external examiner at Manchester Metropolitan University. Professor Philip Drake - Head of Dept., Dept of Media, Edge Hill University Philip Drake is Head of the Department of Media, and Professor in Film, Media and Communications. He joined Edge Hill in 2013, having previously worked as Reader and Director of Research in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University, and in a range of roles in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at University of Stirling including as a Deputy Director in the School of Arts and Humanities, Director of MSc. Media Management and Co-Director MA Film Studies, as well as member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. He has taught and researched film, media and urban studies since 1997, also previously working at UWS as Lecturer in Media and Culture and University of Glasgow as Research Fellow in City Development. He is currently also academic principal investigator on an AHRC NESTA Digital R&D for the Arts funded research project on VOD digital film distribution with Film London and We Are Colony, which runs from 2014-15. See www.wearecolony.com ICE - Northern Powerhouse and Film Policy, 30th September 2015 Page 2 of 6 Neil Harris - Senior Relationship Manager, Arts Council England Neil Harris is based in Manchester who’s remit covers combined arts, creative media, creative industries, talent development and local stakeholder relationships. Neil graduated from Salford University in 1999 with a bachelor of arts in visual arts & culture and a postgraduate diploma in Art Gallery & Museum studies from Manchester University. A commissioned artist and curator, Neil has 15+ years experience working in the cultural sector including 7 years within a local authority context as a specialist in Arts & Regeneration. He is passionate about the role of the arts and artist’s in effecting positive social change. Hugo Heppell - Head of Investments, Screen Yorkshire, Leeds Hugo Heppell has led the investment fund at Screen Yorkshire since it was established in the early 2000's, securing increased commitments from its original backers. His role at Screen Yorkshire includes the sourcing of projects for investment, followed by creative and executive oversight of the projects backed. Building on an initial film financing model, via the European Regional Development Fund, Hugo has developed, and expanded, Screen Yorkshire's investments to take in television dramas and games. His most recent exec producing credits include the films, 'Dad's Army, 'Bill' and 'Swallows and Amazons', which follow on from award successes such as 'Testament of Youth' and ''71.' Hugo's television responsibilities as exec producer include 'Black Work' and 'Peaky Blinders.' The recent announcement of a film studio in Yorkshire, a project initiated by Screen Yorkshire, is a testament to the emerging strength of the film economy in the 'white rose' county. Suzanne Jameson - Head of Creative Economy, Liverpool City Council Suzanne Jameson has an electronic engineering background and has worked in operations, marketing, technical roles across a range of ICT and Media companies including BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Channel 4, Virgin Management Group, and Polygram International. She was the youngest UK Company Manager within SONY (Sony Independent Network Europe Group). Events experience includes Glastonbury, MTV Ibiza, London Stock Exchange, FutureTechUK Wired. In the public sector she delivered £130 million GBP capital/commercialisation projects under EU Merseyside Objective 1 Programme, and a range of business support, infrastructure and sector skills initiatives spanning both creative and digital/ICT areas. Prior to returning ‘home’ to Liverpool in 2004 Suzanne worked for Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, across the innovative public private partnerships (project finance), and industry leading Capital Markets Groups. In 2008 she was appointed Strategic Development Manager at Northwest Regional Development Agency, where she was recruited to manage senior level digital/creative accounts and projects, examples ; Google, Disney, Turner Broadcasting, Lime Pictures, IBM, Cisco, MTV. During this period she managed the pipeline of digital and creative inward investment activity from USA/Canada, India, China, Japan, Australia, including at MediaCityUK, the largest digital infrastructure