Alison Owen

Alison Owen is an Emmy and Bafta-winning and Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated film and television producer.

Alison founded Monumental with Debra Hayward in 2014, where she has executive produced five series of the BAFTA-nominated comedy series Ghosts for BBC One, alongside Maryland for ITV, starring Suranne Jones, Eve Best and Stockard Channing, Sanctuary for AMC/Sundance Now, written by Debbie Horsfield, and Mrs Sidhu Investigates for Acorn, starring Meera Syal. Previously Alison produced crime series Murder In Provence, starring Roger Allam, Nancy Carroll and Keala Settle, for Britbox and ITV, and four seasons of Ghosts US for CBS. Alison also recently served as Executive Producer on Riches, created by Abby Ajayi, for ITVX/Amazon. Prior to this, Alison produced the critically acclaimed series Harlots for Hulu and ITV, starring Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville, Moira Walley-Beckett’s Anne of Green Gables adaptation Anne with an E for Netflix, and Shekhar Kapur’s Will for TNT.

Alison recently produced Back To Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic for StudioCanal/Focus and previously produced feature film How to Build a Girl (2019) starring Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen and Emma Thompson.

Finding international success producing Shekhar Kapur’s multi-Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning historical drama Elizabeth (1998), starring Cate Blanchett, subsequent producer credits include: The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Jane Eyre (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Suffragette (2015) and the Emmy award-winning Temple Grandin (2010). In 2016, Owen produced Me Before You for MGM, directed by Thea Sharrock and starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. 2019 saw another collaboration with MGM on The Hustle (2019), starring Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway.

Under her previous banner, Ruby Film and Television, Alison executive produced Stephen Poliakoff’s Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Dancing on the Edge, an original series for the BBC and Starz, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, John Goodman and Jacqueline Bisset, two series of the detective show Case Histories for the BBC and Masterpiece, starring Jason Isaacs, Emmy award-winning Small Island starring David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ruth Wilson and Naomie Harris and S. J. Clarkson’s Toast starring Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott and Oscar Kennedy.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE (formerly Sam Taylor-Wood) is a British visual artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses photography, video and feature film. For nearly 40 years, her collaborative work has engaged in an enquiry into psychological interiority and the sociocultural narratives through which both selfhood and collective consciousness are shaped.

Born in 1967 in London, UK, Taylor-Johnson studied sculpture at Goldsmiths College, London, alongside a generation of British artists who came to prominence in the 1990s. From the outset, her work has probed the fault lines of lived experience. In early photographic works, most notably the iconic self-portraits Slut (1993) and Fuck Suck Spank Wank (1997), she stages a confrontation between external perception and self-identification. Similarly, in formative video works such as Travesty of a Mockery (1995) and Atlantic (1997), the artist constructs emotionally charged tableaux in which couples, locked in fraught exchanges, attempt to navigate the complexities of intimacy and connection.

Across her work in both art and film, Taylor-Johnson draws the privately felt into the public realm, exposing the dissonance between inner life and public persona. Often working with prominent cultural figures — as in her 2003/04 series Crying Men, in which she photographed male actors in tears, or her hour-long video portrait of David Beckham sleeping, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in 2004 — Taylor-Johnson teases out the inner lives of her subjects, distilling those moments in which the private self slips, unbidden, into view.

Following her participation in the Venice Biennale in 1997 and a Turner Prize nomination at Tate the following year, Taylor-Johnson’s rising international acclaim led to solo exhibitions at several major European museums, including Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (1997); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (1997); Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy (1998); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2000); Hayward Gallery, London (2002); and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2006).

In the early 2000s, Anthony Minghella encouraged Taylor-Johnson to pursue filmmaking, producing her directorial debut — and Palme d'Or-nominated — short Love You More (2008), a tender coming-of-age film set to the soundtrack of punk-era London. Her first feature film, Nowhere Boy (2009), based on the early life of John Lennon, marked her transition into long-form cinema. She has since directed Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the highest-grossing film by a female director; A Million Little Pieces (2018); and most recently, Back to Black (2024), while also working prolifically across short films, Netflix series and music videos.

While film projects have been central to Taylor-Johnson’s work over the past two decades, garnering numerous BAFTA nominations and awards, her studio practice has remained a constant. In 2022, she exhibited a new series of self-portraits at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. These large-scale photographs depict the artist suspended high above the arid landscape of Joshua Tree National Park in California, serving as companion pieces to her earlier series Self-portrait Suspended (2003/04). In turning the camera lens back on herself, Taylor-Johnson brings to the fore the precarious and demanding balance between the physical self and the ethereal mind.

Through her embrace of diverse creative modalities, Taylor-Johnson has continued to address the psychic friction of selfhood, drawing out the tragedies and joys that arise when the inner self collides with the outside world.

Anna Higgs

Anna Higgs is Managing Director of drama production company Character 7, whose recent work includes heist Culprits and psychological thriller The Undoing. A second season of The Night Manager, in partnership with the Ink Factory, comes to BBC and Amazon Prime in January 2026.

A multi-award-winning producer, columnist and host, Higgs most recently Executive Produced Channel 4 mini-series Beth, from writer-director Uzo Oleh, and is Producer on Hassan Akkad's debut feature film, following his successful short film Matar. 

Visionary work she has supported includes Sundance-winning Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth, BAFTA-winning The End of the F*cking World and Oscar winner Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank. She has worked with filmmakers including Ken Loach, Lisa Gunning, Ben Wheatley, Alice Lowe, Paul King and Jenn Nkiru. 

She recently finished her tenure as Chair of the BAFTA Film Committee and serving on the Board of Trustees, and is a Non-Executive Director of groundbreaking games company Interior/Night. 

She has been named one of Creative Review's 'Creative Leaders 50', and among Time Out's inaugural 'Culture 100', a celebration of the "innovators, visionaries and pioneers behind what's now and what's next. A search for the most original and influential people in the UK creative and media industries" alongside innovators such as Danny Boyle, Stella McCartney, Grayson Perry, and Jonathan Ive.

Imogen Carter

Imogen Carter is a co-founder and editor of the Nerve, a new, fearless, independent media title launched in September by an all-female team of five former Guardian and Observer journalists including the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. The Nerve covers culture, politics and tech via newsletters, a website, social media and live events.

Prior to the Nerve, Imogen was a senior editor on the Observer newspaper’s award-winning New Review section where she oversaw the paper’s film coverage in print and on digital for almost a decade including interviews, features, guest edits and a team of critics including Mark Kermode, Wendy Ide and Guy Lodge. 

She has written about culture for publications such as the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Telegraph and the BBC, and previously worked in arts TV including on BBC Two's The Culture Show. 

Now based in London, Imogen grew up in North Wales where she was a member of Clwyd Youth Theatre.

Susanne Wuest

Born and raised in Vienna, Susanne joined Volkstheater, one of Austria’s most prestigious theatre institutions. After starring in many theatre productions, Susanne’s breakout leading role on screen was in Götz Spielmann’s ANTARES, which garnered her Best Actress nominations at Locarno Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, and the Undine Awards.

In 2014, Susanne starred in the horror film GOODNIGHT MOMMY (ICH SEH ICH SEH), which premiered at Venice Film Festival to international acclaim. The film was nominated for a Critics Choice Award in the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ category, and Susanne was nominated for ‘Best Actress’ at Angers European First Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, and Stockholm Film Festival.

This October marks the official UK premiere of her latest film, THE SOUND OF FALLING, a powerful multi-generational drama set on a rural farm in Germany. The film follows four girls in different eras who live on or around the same farm over a century. Each girl has distinct struggles shaped by a historical moment, yet their lives are subtly intertwined by place, memories, trauma, and recurring motifs. Written and directed by Mascha Schilinski, the film premiered at Cannes earlier this year to rave reviews and a Jury Prize win. On 11th October, it premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and will later be released in the US via Mubi.

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Nadia Latif

Nadia Latif is a theatre and film director whose theatre career has included work for the Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company and Bush theatres. From 2018 to 2020 she was Associate Director of the Young Vic theatre, and directed Jackie Sibblies-Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Fairview there. Her first short film White Girl was funded by the BFI and screened in competition at the 2019 LFF. In 2020 she directed a short sci-fi film for Film4, They Heard Him Shout Allahu Akbar. In 2019, she was one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2020, she was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow. Her debut feature film, The Man In My Basement, starring Corey Hawkins & Willem Dafoe just premiered at TIFF, and is now streaming on Disney+/Hulu. In Spring 2026, she will direct the stage adaptation of Babak Anvari’s film Under the Shadow at the Almeida Theatre. She is from Sudan and based in London.

Prano Bailey-Bond

Prano Bailey-Bond is a London-based filmmaker originally from Wales, known for crafting imaginative worlds that fuse eerie allure with a dark cinematic vocabulary. Her debut feature, CENSOR (2021), backed by the BFI, Film4 and Ffilm Cymru Wales, premiered at Sundance Film Festival before making its European debut at the Berlinale. CENSOR gained Prano critical acclaim, earning her a BAFTA Breakthrough recognition and a Variety ‘Director to Watch’ title. She won Screen International’s ‘Genre Rising Star Award’ and was named one of the Observer’s ‘Faces of 2021’. CENSOR had its own cover feature in Sight & Sound and received nine BIFA nominations, as well as winning the Méliès d’Or at Sitges. It has been hailed by critics as one of the best British films of the 21st Century—cementing Prano’s reputation as a bold new voice in cinema.

 

An alumnus of the Berlin Talent Campus and BFI NETWORK@LFF —initiatives that champion originality, iconoclasm and risk-taking — Prano’s acclaimed shorts and music videos screened at festivals worldwide, earning critical recognition and garnering her place among Screen International’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’. She is currently developing film and TV projects with Film4, Element Pictures, RT Features, Anonymous Content, Number 9 Films, and Ffilm Cymru Wales. 

José Campi Portaluppi

José Campi Portaluppi is the Director of Communications and Advocacy. He leads Equimundo’s communications and advocacy teams, amplifying research and programming on masculinities and gender justice to inspire action and drive impact in personal opinion, community norms, and public policy. Prior to joining Equimundo, José worked with different international organizations in educommunications, capacity strengthening, political incidence, research and learning experience design. José has a master’s degree in gender and media from the University of Sussex.

Georgi Banks-Davies

Georgi Banks-Davies is a BAFTA-winning director. Her television debut came as the lead director on the

critically acclaimed series I HATE SUZIE, written by Lucy Prebble and starring Billie Piper. The show earned

multiple BAFTA nominations and earned Georgi the 2021 BAFTA Television Craft Award for Emerging Talent:

Fiction.

Georgi’s subsequent work has spanned genres and scales, from sci-fi television adaptation, PAPER GIRLS

for Amazon Studios, to the Greek God opus KAOS for Netflix.

Next, Georgi has directed the entirety of Series Two of the highly anticipated return of THE NIGHT

MANAGER for BBC One and Amazon, starring Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, Diego Calva, and Camila

Morrone. Based on the John le Carre book, the series is set to premiere in early 2026.

Georgi’s short film GARFIELD premiered to acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and went on to

screen at festivals worldwide, praised for its bold visual storytelling and intimate character work.

Georgi is also a successful commercials director and has directed many campaigns for global brands inc.

Audi, Lexus and McDonalds.

Freya Seath

A global strategy and advocacy specialist with 15 years on the frontlines of feminist, youth and sustainable development movements in Latin America, North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. She designs bold influencing strategies, builds powerhouse coalitions, and secures major wins — from UN-level policy shifts to multimillion-dollar feminist financing. She has led global advocacy at The Accelerator for GBV Prevention, shaped organisational strategy at Restless Development, and driven international campaigns with Save the Children and CIVICUS. A partnership-builder, writer and policy strategist, she works to connect community priorities and evidence to the global decision-making arenas to create real political change.