Genevieve Jolliffe began her filmmaking career at 19 when she produced The Runner for which she entered The Guinness Book Of Records as Britain’s youngest feature film producer. Two more indie features quickly followed, White Angel, which played as the centrepiece film of The London Film Festival and Urban Ghost Story, which was her first foray into directing. Urban Ghost Story received many awards and accolades at film festivals around the world, including Karlovy Vary IFF,  Busan International Film Festival and premiering at The Edinburgh Film Festival. Variety and Screen International listed Gen as one of  'Ten Directors to Watch', and she was nominated for The British Independent Film Awards - The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director.

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Urban Ghost Story received great critical acclaim. A recent look at women horror film directors by Fangoria Magazine, highlighted Urban Ghost Story as a film that had been overlooked or forgotten describing it as "Comparisons to Ken Loach and Mike Leigh might seem hyperbolic, but Jolliffe and Urban Ghost Story ultimately don’t need to be tethered to big name fancy pants male filmmakers to justify how good it is; this movie stands on its own, and is an extraordinary snapshot of how poverty, shame, guilt and isolation work together, all through the enduring supernatural metaphor of the ghost."

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Variety describes the film as "Ken Loach meets The Exorcist" and as a "clever, often potent blend of British kitchen sink drama with fantasy elements that gains added resonance by being set in gruff, rugged Glasgow."

Time Out writes, "the film makes its point about the demoralisation of the urban disenfranchised while delivering a fair quotient of chills. Excellent use of suggestive sound and an impressive action finale, all done on a tiny budget."  

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Gen relocated to Hollywood where she immersed herself into the Hollywood industry, successfully selling spec scripts to Warner Bros., and various other production companies while repped at ICM and managed by Mosaic.

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Gen is also known as the co-author of a series of best selling film guide handbooks, The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, published by Bloomsbury  (The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook UK, The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook US, The Documentary Film Makers Handbook, The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook and Breaking into Hollywood). Her latest book, Screenwriters Advice, co-authored with Andrew Zinnes, has just been published by Bloomsbury. The books have received accolades around the world from the filmmaking community as well as academia being one of the necessary listed books to read  at worldwide renowned university institutions. 

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Gen is returning to the director's chair with How I Got To Now. 

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Andrew Zinnes has a 20+ year in filmmaking starting with a career in feature film and TV development for producers Norman Lear (The Princess Bride) and Donald DeLine (Ready Player One) as well as USA Network (Monk, Suits). Following this, Andrew transitioned to screenwriting and sold ABSOLUTE ANGELS to Warner Brothers for production company Mosaic Media Group (Batman series) as well as commissioned MERMAID for 24/7 and TOM WILSON: LOST IN TRANSITION for Pfonetic.

    Andrew is the co-author of The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, the internationally best selling series on filmmaking and teaches Film Production at The University of Portsmouth. His latest book which he co-authored with Genevieve Jolliffe, Screenwriters Advice, has just been released by Bloomsbury. 

"A cut-to-the-chase book that goes to the heart of professional screenwriting…a book that you will go back to again and again."  Jack Epps, Jr., Professor at the John Wells Division of Writing, University of Southern California, USA.  

Jules Baker-Smith is a Film & TV Producer with over 25 years experience in the Industry, working her way up from PA to Producer.

She has worked with and continues to work with some of the world’s leading Directors, Producers & Actors, such as Robert Downey Jnr, Alfonso Cuaron, Thea Sharrock & Nancy Myers. Jules has worked at all of the UK studios and on location around the world. She lived in LA for a few years and worked from Marvel Studios in Manhattan Beach, Warner Bros in Burbank and on location across the States.

Lucy V. Hay  is a script editor, author and blogger who helps writers. She's been the script editor and advisor on numerous UK features and shorts & has also been a script reader for over 15 years, providing coverage for indie prodcos, investors, screen agencies, producers, directors and individual writers. She's also an author, publishing as both L.V. Hay and Lizzie Fry.  

Lizzie's latest, THE COVEN, has just been released with Sphere Books and L.V.'s debut crime novel THE OTHER TWIN is being adapted by the Emmy-nominated Free@Last TV.

Lucy's site at www.bang2write.com has appeared in Top 100 round ups for Writer's Digest & The Write Life, as well as been a UK Blog Awards Finalist and Feedspot's #1 Screenwriting blog in the UK (eighth in the world!). 

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To see more of Lizzie's books, please click here:  https://lucyvhayauthor.com/

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(photo above of Lucy with her son, courtesy of Jendella Benson).

Lisa Henry is the owner & founder of Lobster Locations on the Isle of Wight, (https://www.lobsterlocations.co.uk/)

 

The Isle Film Co's sister location agency. Lobster was born from falling in love with the Isle of Wight combined with many years of experience in the locations industry. From working on set, hiring her home out as location and as an agent for a top London location agency.  Lisa has worked on numerous projects from stills shoots, music videos, TV Commercials, Drama and Feature films. Lisa swapped London city life for Island life moving with her family in 2019. In between all this Lisa has worked as an interior designer, renovated a few properties and continues to raise a family consisting of two boys, one husband and a dog!