Our Film Committee

ANGELA ALLEN MBE

Angela started work at an artists agency, Filmrights. She trained as a script supervisor (known as Continuity) at the Korda studios and worked on the second unit of The Third Man. Romulus films hired her for Pandora and The Flying Dutchman and as the youngest continuity working she was chosen by Sam Spiegel to work for John Huston on The African Queen and then worked on 13 more of his films including Moby Dick, The Misfits, The Man Who Would Be King, Night Of The Iguana. She worked in New York for NBC, a theatre producer and for Ray Stark on his stage production of Funny Girl and, in California, for Norman
Lear and Bud Yorkin and as script on some TV shows for Universal. More recently, she worked with John Frankenheimer and has been involved with Franco Zeffirelli on his films and stage work.

Rosa Bosch

Co-optee

Will Clarke

Co-optee

JANE CUSSONS

Jane Cussons began her career as an actress, working in theatre and television, including two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, a year with the Old Vic Company, two major West End plays, numerous television roles and a year on TV soap, Emmerdale. She spent a year at the NFTS as a production manager on student graduation films and in 1988, she produced her first film Unexplained Laughter for BBC1. In 1990, she joined Peregrine Productions as Development Executive, where credits included Feast of July and Crossmaheart. She continued to work in production and casting on projects such as Charlotte Gray, Les Soeurs Soleil, Oscar and Lucinda, The Gathering, Family Money and Deadly Summer. Jane spent six years as Chief Executive of Women in Film & Television until April 2007. She has been a BAFTA member since 1988 and is also a member of British Actors Equity and the Casting Director's Guild, and is a RADA Associate.

FINOLA DWYER

Chair

Born in New Zealand, Finola was a film editor before turning to producing, and moved to the UK in the early 90's. Her producer credits include Iain Softley's acclaimed debut Backbeat and Stephan Elliott's Welcome to Woop Woop, Chris Menges' The Lost Son and Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You. She produced the festival favourite and Emmy-nominated Hamburg Cell and produced Stephen Woolley's directorial debut Stoned. In 2006 she produced the award-winning Tsunami: The Aftermath directed by Bharat Nalluri. Last year she made her theatre producing debut with the West End hit and award winning Elling. She currently has Dean Spanley (Peter O'Toole, Jeremy Northam and Sam Neill) and An Education written by Nick Hornby and directed by Lone Scherfig in post-production, as Executive Producer and Producer respectively.

Stephen Heppell

Co-optee

ALISON OWEN

Alison Owen is currently the Producer/Managing Director of Ruby Films. Previous producer credits include Hear My Song, Roseanna’s Grave and The Young American’s and she won a BAFTA for Best British Film in 1998 with Elizabeth. Ruby Films was established in 1999 and the first films under the Ruby banner were Sylvia and Proof, both starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Alison set up Go-Go Pictures with Paltrow in 2004 and was an Executive Producer on Shaun of The Dead. She has recently worked on post-production for Justin Chadwick’s The Other Boleyn Girl and Sarah Gavron’s Brick Lane. Alison is also a board member of the UK Film Council.