We collaborate with project assessors each time we open for applications.
If you’d like assess shorts or features projects with us please contact us with a brief overview of your taste and experience. Development experience isn’t essential. What matters is your perspective, curiosity and insight.
Right now, we’re working with…
Alessia Galatini
Alessia is a script consultant and writer. Originally from Italy, she has lived in London since 2014. As a freelance script analyst for companies including Netflix, Complete Fiction and Signature Entertainment UK, she has experience working across the UK, Italian, Greek and US markets and has assisted development teams during Cannes, Berlinale and other prominent film markets. Her writing and film criticism essays have appeared in international publications and, until 2022, she was the film & TV editor of feminist UK zine The F Word, promoting socially-conscious filmmaking and emerging writers.
Angelina Nagenthiran
Angelina is a producer from London, currently based in Scotland. As a freelance creative, Angelina has worked on scripted and unscripted content across a range of mediums – including HETV, film, commercials, theatre, arts festivals, and audio projects. After studying Mathematics with Management & Finance at King’s College London, Angelina worked in financial consulting for several years, before pursuing her passion full-time and making the move into the creative industries in 2019. Angelina was selected to be on the 2022/23 Short Circuit Producer Accelerator (funded by Screen Scotland and BFI NETWORK), where she has been named as one of the eight most promising Scotland-based emerging producers.
Christien Bart-Gittens
Christien has just produced Phil Dunster's (Ted Lasso) debut short Idiomatic, exec'd by Brett Goldstein and Matthew James Wilkinson. Prior to that he worked as Shadow Producer on The Lazarus Project S2 with Urban Myth Films and produced short BFI Network drama Swole. He is currently developing TV ideas with a range of talented writers under his new indie It's Fine Productions.
Ethan Deplitch
Ethan is a writer and aspiring script editor. He completed an MA in Screenwriting in 2017, moving into editorial and development when he was selected for the inaugural cohort of Flip the Script, a Script Editing Traineeship in association with Sky Studios & SharpFutures. He was part of the story team that made Waterloo Road in 2023 and has most recently worked with Emmerdale as a Junior Storyliner. Ethan is script reader for both 42MP and Rocliffe’s BAFTA New Writing Competitions.
Jason Barker
Jason Barker is a writer/director from the South West of England, recently selected for the BFI Flare X BAFTA mentoring scheme. In 2019, his autobiographical feature documentary, A Deal with the Universe played to critical acclaim at cinemas nationwide. His latest short film The Piss Witch was supported by BFI Network and premiered at this year’s BFI Flare festival. Jason has co-written a radio play for radio 4 and is currently in development on his first feature film with BFI Film Fund, a fictionalised version of his feature documentary entitled Mister Uterus. Jason is again collaborating with Delaval Films and Tigerlily Productions. Jason has been a programmer for BFI Flare, programme consultant for the London Film Festival and has served on juries for Mix Copenhagen and the Teddy Award at the Berlinale. He is also a Development Mentor for Attagirl, supporting women and non-binary led feature filmmaking teams.
Lorine Plagnol
Lorine founded London based independent production company, Sungazer. The company aims to support the work of talents from historically underrepresented groups - both on and off screen - believing in the power of storytelling to create change. As a freelancer, Lorine started in international film and TV productions gradually stepping up from assistant to production manager. She launched Sungazer in 2018 and became a BFI Insight Vision Awardee in 2020. Collaborating regularly with Film4 and BBC, she produced more recently the hybrid miniseries Life in Love (2022) directed by Abel Rubinstein, Area Boy (2023 Venice Biennale Orizzonti competition, BFI LFF Honourable Mention), Dope Fiend (2023 BFI LFF Special Screening) and Dalton’s Dream directed by Kim Longinotto and Franky M Brown (2023 Sheffield DocFest, DocNYC) which will premiere on BBC Storyville in 2024.
Matteo Miccolis
Matteo is a French director who studied and graduated with a BA in filmmaking from the London Film Academy. Prior to graduating in 2023, Matteo worked six months with the team of the London-based independent production company The Electric Shadow Company as an assistant to the producers. This experience developed his strong skills in script reading and analysis as well as a first foot in the world of independent filmmaking. This inspired him to direct his first short film Cheeky Powder which was screened at the BFI Southbank in November 2023. Passionate about storytelling as well as visuals, Matteo has also been developing his creative mind and visual style by working as camera assistant on various independent productions in London.
Patty Papageorgiou
Patty is a screenwriter and reader with a background spanning over 20 years in the UK film and TV industry. She worked in production and post-production before moved her focus exclusively to screenwriting in 2017, where her real passion was. She developed new skills as a writer and reader through practice, self-study, and peer workshops and began reading scripts professionally in 2020, building considerable experience in script analysis and editing. Her writing has been shortlisted in a number of contests, including the London Screenwriters Festival, Raindance, and the Netflix Screenwriters Fellowship, and she is published in two anthologies. She is particularly drawn to stories that explore the human condition and experience, especially in themes of identity, belonging, and human connection.
Priyanka Chavda
Priyanka began her career in the industry with internships at Heyday Films and Sid Gentle Films. She then worked as a freelance script reader for companies including Element Pictures, Film4, and Sky. For over 3 years Priyanka worked as a Manger's Assistant at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates for their Below the Line department. Whilst at Casarotto, she championed diversity and inclusion in the industry through her role as Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator. This included working with colleagues to coordinate Casarotto's outreach programme to participate in external talks with schools across the UK. Priyanka has most recently worked at Red Planet Pictures as a Script Assistant.
Radha Patel
Radha is a Welsh writer, reviewer and artist whose work intersects across across colonialism, nature, religion, rituals, language, folklore and the future. She enjoys writing as a way to challenge historical perceptions of right / wrong / this happened / that happened, and has been published in several journals and anthologies including Where I’m Coming From, the Soap Box Press, 3am Magazine Amber Flora Zine, The Cardiff Review and more. As an artist, she has collaborated with Lumin Journal and Y Stamp, and has also exhibited work at 'shift' and 'g39'.
Rita Osei
A director, writer and producer, Rita initially trained as a painter and graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a Joint Honours BA in Visual Arts, where she made her first films. She began her career assisting producer Nick de Grunwald, developing films and documentaries including Classic Albums for the BBC. She went on to produce multi award-winning animation for the Turner brands Cartoon Network and Boomerang across Europe. Her debut feature film Bliss!, starring Freya Parks, had its world premiere at the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Rita is developing long form work for film and TV. Short film directing credits include the upcoming Aurora, in which "a peri-menopausal vampire is on a quest to kill a habit that won't die". Rita is the Chair of BAFTA's British Short Film Award jury and creator/curator of 225 Film Club, promoting female excellence in direction.
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