Anna Friel

Anna is well known for playing the title role of Hans Rosenfeldt’s Marcella for ITV and Netflix. A phenomenal performance for which Anna won an International Emmy for Best Actress. The third series aired this year.

She is about to start shooting the lead in new mini-series from Adi Hasak The Box for ViaPlay.

Other recent TV credits include ITV’s 3 part drama Butterfly from REDProductions, The Girlfriend Experience for Starz and Jimmy McGovern drama Broken (BBC) alongside Sean Bean, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA.

Anna also played leading roles in Peter Horton’s American Odyssey for NBC, Showtime pilot The Vatican for director Ridley Scott.

Finally, Anna is also recognised for her brilliant performance in Pushing Daisies.

Anna also currently stars in features Book of Bloods for Hulu, Charming the Hearts of Men with Kelsey Grammar and Sulphur & White directed by Julian Jarrold.

Previous feature credits include, Tomato Red with Oscar Nominated director Juanita Wilson, I.T. opposite Pierce Brosnan, WW2 drama Heavy Water War, Good People alongside James Franco and Kate Hudson, Master Cleanse with Anjelica Huston and Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love, in which she stars alongside Steve Coogan as the wife of infamous British billionaire, Paul Raymond.

On stage in the West End, Anna has starred in Christopher Hampton adaptation of Uncle Vanya and Breakfast at Tiffany’s to critical acclaim.

Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd is an author, actor, and social justice humanitarian. She is a leader of the #MeToo movement and a founding member of Time’s Up. 

Judd has been nominated twice for both Golden Globe and Emmy Awards and received an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Ruby in Paradise. Over the years, she has demonstrated her range in a variety of genres and proven to be a box office draw.

Judd is a United Nation’s Global Goodwill Ambassador and recently was a Leader in Practice at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She also serves on the Leadership Council at the International Center for Research on Women. She works with several other NGO’s on global public health, and human trafficking. 

Judd is a passionate advocate for the right of every girl and boy to enter adulthood safely and empowered, and to ending all forms of sexual and gender-based violence. 

Her advocacy has taken her to the slums, brothels, schools, hospices, drop-in centres and clinics across Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America. Judd’s experience ranges from attending an obstetric fistula replacement surgery in eastern Congo to advocating to governments and the public sector on behalf of her partnerships and making the data-based argument for gender specific responses.

She authored the New York Times bestselling book “All That Is Bitter & Sweet” and was featured in the documentary “A Path Appears,” about sex trafficking and domestic slavery in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a proud American and citizen of the world who is committed to doing her part to help the global family progress toward wellness and peace. 

When not speaking on panels and conferences, writing, and traveling the world, Ashley enjoys an adventurous and outdoorsy life with her partner. 

Photo Credit: Alex Cayley 

Barbara Broccoli OBE

Barbara Broccoli is producer of the James Bond film series with her brother Michael G. Wilson. They have produced the last nine Bond films together including No Time To Die, in cinemas 2021.

Broccoli and Wilson produced The Rhythm Section and have executive produced several independent film projects including: The Silent Storm, Radiator, and Nancy. Broccoli executive produced Trauma Is A Time Machine and produced the critically acclaimed Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool with Wilson executive producing.

Broccoli’s producer credits for stage productions include, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Steady Rain, Chariots Of Fire, the Tony Award-winning Once, Othello, The Kid Stays In The Picture, and recently The Band’s Visit, winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Ear for Eye, Fleabag and Sing Street.

Broccoli is BAFTA”s Vice President for Film, President of the National Youth Theatre, and a Trustee of Into Film. Broccoli and Wilson are founders of the London Screen Academy, Islington and Directors of the Dana and Albert R. Broccoli Foundation.

In 2014, Broccoli and Wilson received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, in 2013, the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film for Skyfall and in 2008, appointed Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Photo Credit: Greg Williams

Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor

2020 Screen International Star of Tomorrow, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor is a producer whose work focuses on Black, Queer and Female-led content for Film and TV.

She runs Joi Productions, which received a BFI Vision Award, a £2 million fund aimed at supporting Independent Production companies.

In 2019, Joy produced the hit, Blue Story, directed by Rapman grossing £4.5m at the UK Box Office. 

She has been mentored by Ben Roberts, CEO of British Film Institute, Stephen Kelliher, MD of Bankside Films and also Number 9's Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol, Colette).

Sarah Gavron

Sarah Gavron directed Rocks working in a close collaboration with the Associate Director, Anu Henriques and the creative team and cast. In 2015, Suffragette, directed by Sarah, was released. 

Sarah's feature debut was Brick Lane, which earned her a BAFTA nomination and The Alfred Dunhill Talent Award at the London Film Festival. Prior to this, Sarah's first full length drama, the Dennis Potter Award winning, This Little Life for BBC TV, won her the TV BAFTA for Best New Director and both the Royal Television Society and Women in Film and TV Award, for Best Newcomer. 

While training at the NFTS and after, Sarah made many short films which have screened internationally. 

In 2013, Sarah’s feature documentary Village at the End of the World  was nominated for The Grierson Award and won the Margaret Mead Award.

In her early career, after completing an English degree, Sarah worked on documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4.

Julie Gayet

Julie Gayet is a French actor and producer.

She first came to prominence in Delphine 1, Yvan 0 before being awarded the Prix Romy Schneider and Best European Actress at the Brussels International Film Festival for her role in Laurent Bouhnik’s Sélect Hôtel.

In 2009, she was announced as Best Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival for 8 fois debout and continues to act across film and TV, starring in psychological drama series Torn and playing herself in France 2 and Netflix’s Call My Agent.

Julie set up Rogue International in 2007, producing films including The Ride by Stephanie Gillard and Julia Ducournau’s acclaimed horror Raw. In 2020, she produced Les Joueuses, a documentary about Olympique Lyon, regarded as one of the best women’s football teams in the world.

In 2013, Julie co-directed Cinéast(e)s alongside Mathieu Busson, featuring interviews with female filmmakers including Agnès Varda, Josiane Balasko and Céline Sciamma, discussing the issues encountered by women in the film industry and the relevance of gender to filmmaking.

Renowned French journalist Thierry Cheze wrote about her in Studio Magazine: “She is an enthusiastic kind of person. We can spend hours listening to her talking about sports, paintings, politics, or about her recent roles and projects ahead. For she has a down to earth approach to her job, never hiding behind inaccessible dreams. Julie Gayet creates, changes completely from one part to the next, so far from one another. Too scattered? Certainly not. Too discrete? Probably. While showing no interest whatsoever in self-promotion, Julie stands out naturally, thanks to her eclectic curiosity.”

Abi Morgan

Abi is currently working on an adaptation of Manhattan Beach for Wildgaze, an original series for Netflix and Sister Pictures and The Split Season 3 for Sister Pictures/BBC.

Her many credits include the serial River (Kudos/BBC), the BBC/Kudos series The Hour, for which she also won an Emmy, and the features Suffragette, The Iron Lady and Shame.

Céline Bonnaire

Céline Bonnaire has worked in non-profit and philanthropy for the past thirteen years.

In 2006, she joined Kering (Previously PPR) to expand its community work for education and inclusion at the European level. In 2008, she launched the Kering Corporate Foundation, which combats violence against women.

As the Executive Director and in coordination with its Board of Directors, Céline engages the Foundation in long-term partnerships with local organizations in order to develop programs to support women survivors of violence and to improve prevention, working with diverse audiences.

Whether with the Foundation’s partners or with all actors committed to combating violence against women, she encourages a collaborative and transversal approach to increase the impact of the actions carried out for the benefit of women.

Céline graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce and completed her post-graduate degree in Latin American Economy from La Sorbonne.

Photo Credit: Jean-Luc Perreard

Jasmine Trinca

Jasmine Trinca began her film career very young, in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for the role of Irene inThe Son’s Room (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001). Two years later she was in The Best of Youth by Marco Tullio Giordana (winner of the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes in 2003), followed byManual of Love in 2005 by Giovanni Veronesi andCrime Novel by Michele Placido.

Nanni Moretti called her again in 2006 forThe Caiman, the following year she was in Piano, solo by Riccardo Milani, while in 2009 she won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize in Venice Film Festival withThe Big Dream by Michele Placido.

In 2011, she shot in France House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello, in Competition at Cannes Film Festival, while two years later she was at Locarno Film Festival with Une autre vie by Emmanuel Mouret.

In 2013, she starred inThere Will Come a Day by Giorgio Diritti and in Miele by Valeria Golino which earned Jasmine the Nastro d’Argento prize. In 2015 she was in the International cast of Pierre Morel’sThe Gunman with Sean Penn and JavierB ardem. In the same year she played inYou Can’t Save Yourself Alone by Sergio Castellitto and inWondrous Boccaccio by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

After playing inTommaso by Kim Rossi Stuart andSlam by Andrea Molaioli, in 2017 she was the protagonist of Fortunata by Sergio Castellitto with which she won in Cannes the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress, the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento prizes.

The following year she played Ilaria Cucchi in the film On My Skin by Alessio Cremonini.

More recently we have seen her in Euforia by Valeria Golino, An Almost Ordinary Summer by Simone Godano, Chiara Malta’s Simple Women, Ferzan Ozpetek’s The Goddess of Fortune (David di Donatello and Nastro d’Argento for Best Actress). In 2018 she made her stage debut in the pièceLa Maladie de la mort directed by Katie Mitchell.

Soon she will be on screens with Giorgia Farina’sRomantic Guide to Lost Places, Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife andSuperheroes by Paolo Genovese.

BMM-Being My Mom, a short film selected at Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti 2020, marks her debut behind the camera

Dr Leyla Hussein OBE

Leyla Hussein OBE is a psychotherapist, campaigner, and global leader on gender rights.

She is an international lecturer on female genital mutilation (FGM) and recognised as one of the key experts on the issue globally. She is the founder of The Dahlia Project, the UK’s first specialist therapeutic service for FGM survivors.

Leyla regularly appears as an expert commentator on women’s rights and health, with articles published in The Guardian, Cosmopolitan and The Huffington Post.

In 2019, Leyla was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for her work in tackling female genital mutilation and advocating gender equality.

Her current project, The Girl Generation, focuses on the importance of the emotional wellbeing of activists in the field working with survivors of FGM.

Photo Credit: Ali Naji

Phyllida Lloyd

Phyllida Lloyd is a film and theatre director and producer.

Theatre: Tina the Musical (Aldwych London Lunt Fontaine Broadway, Hamburg, Utrecht - Tony nominated), Taming of The Shrew (Delacourte Theatre NY), The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse St Ann’s Warehouse NY), Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse/St Ann’s Warehouse NY), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse/St Ann’s Warehouse, NY), Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse, Apollo, and Broadway - Tony nominated), Josephine and I (Bush Theatre/ Public Theatre NY), Mamma Mia (London, Broadway, Worldwide), Six Degrees of Separation (Royal Court).

Film: Herself (Element Films),The Iron Lady (Pathe/DJ Films/ Film Four), Mamma Mia (Relativity Media/Playtone/Littlestar Productions).

Stacy Martin

Stacy Martin first appeared on screen in the lead role in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac in 2014 starring opposite a stellar cast that included Shia LaBeouf, Willem Dafoe, Uma Thurman and Jamie Bell.

She went on to appear in a run of further features, most memorably in Redoubtable from Academy Award winning director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) which was in competition at Cannes, others include Ben Wheatley’s High Rise, The Tale of Tales from award-winning Italian film director Matteo Garrone and in Brady Corbet’s critically acclaimed directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader.

More recently, Stacy starred in Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, alongside Natalie Portman and Jude Law and in Marie Monge’s film Joueurs which was Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, starring alongside Tahar Rahim, as well as in Dernier Amour by Benoit Jacquot.

This year Stacy will appear in Archive, a two hander directed by Gavin Rothery. She most recently finished filming the new Nicole Garcia feature Lisa Redler, the television series The Serpent for the BBC and Netflix and Louis Wain, a feature biopic directed by Will Sharpe.

Gary Barker

Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and founder of Promundo, which has worked for 20 years in more than 40 countries.

Beginning in low-income areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Promundo’s approaches have been incorporated into ministries of health and education around the world. Promundo is a Global Consortium with members in Brazil, the US, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Portugal.

Gary is also co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign working in 45 countries to promote men’s involvement as caregivers, and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 700 NGOs.

He created and leads the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), the largest ever survey of men’s attitudes and behaviours related to violence, fatherhood, and gender equality.

He is a co-author of the 2015 and 2017 State of the World's Fathers reports.

He has advised the UN, the World Bank, numerous national governments, and key international foundations and corporations on strategies to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality.

In 2017 he was named by Apolitical as one of the 20 most influential people in gender policy around the world.

He is an Ashoka Fellow and received the Voices of Solidarity Award from Vital Voices for his work to engage men for gender equality.

He holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology.

Sarah D'Angelis

Sarah D’Angelis is The Violence Against Women and Girls Partnerships Manager for UK SAYS NO MORE, creating survivor-led, partnership based solutions for domestic abuse and sexual violence.

She recently hosted their first in conversation event with Rose McGowan and co-created the national Safe Spaces scheme, increasing opportunities for victims of domestic abuse to access specialist support, safely. 

Sarah is committed to changing the societal narrative that exists around sexual violence, having previously founded a rape crisis centre and fulfilled consultancy roles both nationally and internationally.

Tamara Yazbek

Tamara Yazbek is a Mexican filmmaker who just completed her Masters degree in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London, her final thesis was focused on the representation of women in Latin American societies and the normalisation of violence towards the female gender.

She has a BA in Film and TV from the London College of Communication, in which she wrote her dissertation about the audience’s phenomenological experience of space within film, and has an International Baccalaureate from Edron Academy in Mexico City.

She acted in the film Despues de Lucia which won Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in Diosas de Oro in Mexico City.

Though her years studying she worked in many film festivals including Raindance, Ambulante and London Feminist Film Festival.

She produced two short films and was a Production Assistant at Pulse Films, having also worked within research and development.

This year she directed, shot and edited her first documentary, Refugio, which was accepted in the official competition of Morelia Film Festival in Mexico and is now on its way to more festivals around the world.

 

Teniece Divya Johnson

Teniece Divya Johnson, MA (Lehigh University, Sociology), MFA (University of Florida), is a student of life, stunt performer and certified intimacy coordinator and intimacy director for television, film and stage.

They are a Creative Team Member of (IDC) Intimacy Directors & Coordinators and some of Teniece's credits include HBO’s Succession, Lovecraft Country, RAMY, HULU's Wu-Tang: An American Saga, FX's POSE, Run The World, The Hunters on Amazon, West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the limited series The Underground Railroad, written and directed by Barry Jenkins. 

Teniece is also honoured to have worked with Claire Warden on Slave Play at the Golden Theater and NYTW and they love working with the students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts as a fight director and intimacy director. 

Teaching and performing for over a decade, Teniece uses a multidisciplinary approach to cultivating self-healing and creative wellness practices. Driven to keep actors safe but the story dangerous, Teniece’s devised theatre experience, movement training and spoken word poetry lends for a natural curiosity and commitment to honouring and dissecting what is on the page in order to develop a captivating movement dialogue of action and reaction.

They are also an outspoken advocate for diversity, inclusivity, LGBTQ community and consent culture. 

Terri White

Terri White is Editor-in-Chief of Bauer Media’s flagship film brand, Empire. 

She joined from Time Out North America, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Time Out New York and Time Out Chicago.

Terri is also a writer, having been published in The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, Grazia, The Big Issue, Q, Red, Elle, Refinery 29 and The Observer magazine.

She contributed to ‘My Old Man’, a book of essays on fathers, published by Canongate in 2016 and has just published her first book, ‘Coming Undone, A Memoir’ also published by Canongate (July 2020). 

White is the current Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors), was named one of the 150 Female Leaders redefining the creative industries by The Dots in 2017 and one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media in 2015.

Terri has spoken at media conferences around the world, including Social Media Week New York; the Magazine Design Conference in Oslo; The Modern Magazine conference in London, Magfest in Edinburgh and Ad Week Europe, for which she conducted live interviews with Former Vice President Al Gore, actors Stanley Tucci and Richard E Grant and director Edgar Wright.

She is also a broadcaster, appearing on Radio 4, Talk Radio, BBC London, Sky News, BBC News, ITV News and is a host on the weekly Pilot TV Podcast. Terri was recently made a Fellow of the RSA (The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), in recognition of her work in journalism and contribution to the magazine industry.