The Jury 2011

Charles Steel

Charles is a BAFTA winning film producer and managing director of Cowboy Films. Produced films include Kevin MacDonald’s The Last King of Scotland, which won an Oscar for Best Actor and a BAFTA for Best British Film, Goodbye Charlie Bright, Amy Foster and the cinema documentary Fire In Babylon. TV productions include Poppy Shakespeare, which won the BAFTA for Best Actress and most recently Top Boy, a four-part thriller written by Ronan Bennett, that has just transmitted on Channel 4. Cowboy also produces short films including the Oscar winning Wasp (Andrea Arnold) and the BAFTA winning I-Do-Air (Martina Amati). Currently in post production is Marley - a cinema documentary on Bob Marley, directed by Kevin McDonald, to be released in 2012.

Andrew Eaton

Andrew Eaton co-founded Revolution Films in 1994 with director Michael Winterbottom. He has won the BAFTA award twice for his work in film and television. His feature credits include; Genova, A Mighty Heart, Road to Guantanamo, A Cock and Bull Story, In This World, The Shock Doctrine, The Killer Inside Me, The Trip and 360. He has also served as executive producer on other productions, including Heartlands and Bright Young Things. Eaton produced the critically acclaimed Red Riding trilogy for Channel 4, and was executive producer for Samantha Morton’s The Unloved, which was awarded a BAFTA for Best Single Drama. He will next produce Rush, about the Formula 1 champion drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt, whilst also working on 7 Days, a drama about an imprisoned man and his family. Eaton has served as Deputy Chair of the UK Film Council and Chair of the Leadership on Diversity Forum, and in 2000 he was awarded Producer of the Year at BIFA.

Justine Wright

Justine Wright first learnt to cut ads, music videos, and short films before branching out into editing documentary and narrative features. Her previous work includes One Day in September, for which she received a BIFA for Best Newcomer (Behind the Camera), Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, State of Play and The Eagle. Other editorial credits are The Game of Their Lives, which was named Best Sports Documentary at the British Television Awards and earned the Greerson and BIFA nominations, and Late Night Shopping, which won three BAFTA (Scotland) Awards and the BIFA for Best Actress (Kate Ashfield). Additionally, she was supervising editor on Deep Water, nominated for a BIFA and named Best Documentary at the Rome Film Festival and the San Diego Film Critics Society, and In the Shadow of the Moon, which won the Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. She has just completed work on THE IRON LADY.

Molly Nyman

Molly started the violin at three, cello, flute and piano at four and began composing at eight. She won a scholarship to the Centre for Young Musicians from 11 to 18, won the prize for National Choral Composition and played in the LSCO and the LSSO. After studing Music and Composition at Sussex and City Universities, Molly worked at Classic FM and various TV companies. She then started her own company, composing music for film and television and performing live with a 13 piece band. She has worked on award winning and critically acclaimed films; David Slade's Hard Candy(2005), Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart(2007) and Road To Guantanamo(2006), Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts(2006), Deep Water(2006), I Am Slave(2010), Poppy Shakespeare (BAFTA nominated), Father & Son(ITV), Stephen Fry in America(BBC) Michael Palin’s New Europe(BBC) and Shifty(2009) BIFA nominated score.As Music Director for the largest concert in Dubai with a 350 piece choir, 95 piece orchestra and some acrobats thrown in, Molly rewrote the Dubai national anthem.In 2009 she sat on the Ivor Novello jury and in 2010 the BAFTA Television Crafts Jury.In May 2011 she was elected to the Board of PRS for Music. As the first new director for over 6 years she now sits on the International and Distribution sub-committees.Her musical tastes are diverse, ranging from Plan-B to Bernard Hermann to Thomas Newman to Stravinsky to Gorillaz...She has a natural interest in how works are published and protected, strongly feeling that the diversity of digital music requires a constant proactive enforcement of the composers rights. In a homogenised age there is a danger of everything original becoming lost, diluted and duplicated. She is very keen to be part of the process which protects and nurtures all that is key to sustaining the rights of the composer and publisher alike.

David Thewlis

David’s breakthrough performance came in Mike Leigh’s Naked.

Thewlis stars in two films soon to be released: The Lady, directed by Luc Besson, and Anonymous, directed Roland Emmerich. Other recent film work includes: London Boulevard, Mr Nice, Veronika Decides to Die, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Thewlis also plays Professor Lupin in the Harry Potter films: The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows, parts 1 and 2.

Other film credits include: The Inner Life of Martin Frost, The Omen, All the Invisible Children, The New World, The Kingdom of Heaven, Timeline, Gangster No. 1, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?, Besieged, The Big Lebowski, Seven Years in Tibet, The Island of Dr Moreau, Total Eclipse, Dragonheart, Restoration, Black Beauty, The Trial, Resurrected, Vroom, Divorcing Jack, Short and Curlies and Life is Sweet.

On television, Thewlis played the twin roles of Joe and Harry in The Street, for which he was nominated as Outstanding Actor in a TV Series Drama at the 2008 Monte Carlo TV Festival. Other TV credits include Dinotopia, Endgame, Dandelion Dead, Prime Suspect III, Frank Stubbs, Journey to Knock, Filipino Dreamgirls, Skulduggery, A Bit of a Do, Road, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and The Singing Detective.

In theatre, Thewlis has starred in Sam Mendes’ The Sea at the Royal National Theatre, Max Stafford-Clark’s Ice Cream at the Royal Court, Buddy Holly at the Regal in Greenwich, Ruffian on the Stairs/The Woolley at Farnham, and Lady and the Clarinet at the Kings Head.Thewlis is also known for his work as a director. His feature film Cheeky, was released by Guerilla Pictures in 2007, and his short film Hello, Hello, Hello, was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.

Thewlis’ many achievements were recognised at the 2008 British Independent Film Awards when he received the Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film.

His first novel “The Late Hector Kipling” was published in 2007 to great critical acclaim.

Debs Paterson

Debs' directorial debut 'Africa United' (Pathé/BBC Films) premiered in the UK at the Family Gala of London's International Film Festival before opening in cinemas nationwide. The adventurous and touching road movie had its international premiere at Toronto and earned Debs a nomination for BIFA's Douglas Hickox award last year, as well as being honoured in BAFTA's prestigious Brits To Watch event this summer. Debs is now developing an adaptation of dancer Carlos Acosta's life story, and a noir thriller about the WWII art forger Han Van Meegeren.

Gemma Arterton

Lucy Bevan

My film credits as Casting Director include 'St Trinians', 'An Education', 'The Duchess', 'Me & Orson Welles', 'The Disappearance Of Alice Creed', 'Made In Dagenham', 'Nanny McPhee Returns', 'Unrelated', 'Archipelago', 'Pirates of The Caribbean; On Stranger Tides' and most recently 'Snow White & The Huntsman' for Universal and Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut 'Quartet'.  For television I have cast 'Birdsong' for Working Title and I was Casting Director for the Gate Theatre 2007 - 2010.  I was fortunate enough to train with the late Mary Selway.  


Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman is on Radio 1 from 07.00-10.00 on Saturdays and Sundays. Starting off on MTV’s Daily Edition, she then began co-presenting MTV’s Hitlist UK with Cat Deeley. Capital FM subsequently signed the pair for Cat and Edith’s Hit Music Sunday. In 2003 she joined Radio 1 to co-host the Colin and Edith show with Colin Murray and from 2006 she got her own weekday Edith Bowman Show. Edith’s television presenting roles have included RI:SE, Top Of The Pops, Rough Guide To The World, New Kings Of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and 4 Music Specials. She even won Fame Academy in 2005! She has also hosted the BBC’s television coverage of Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, T in the Park Festivals, Radio 1s Big Weekend and was co-anchor of the BBC’s live coverage of the Royal Wedding. For the past 2 years, she has hosted BAFTA’s own programming for the film awards, and has a brand new series The Vue Film Show on C4.

Mary McCartney

Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995, and has concentrated on the world of portrait and candid reportage photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.

Mary’s work has appeared in editorial titles such as Harpers Bazaar and Interview Magazine as well as high impact advertising campaigns for Adidas, Bucherer and Mandarin Oriental. “Mary is the new creative spirit behind Mandarin Oriental’s He’s/She’s a Fan campaign, taking over from the late Patrick Lichfield.”

In May 2000 Mary took the first official photographs of Tony and Cherie Blair with their newborn son, Leo. Mary has a number of pictures in the National Portrait Gallery Collection. Mary’s first solo exhibition was in October 2004 entitled ‘Off Pointe – A Photographic Study of The Royal Ballet After Hours’.

Her first American solo exhibition was entitled “Playing Dress Up” and showed at the Goss Michael Foundation in Dallas in 2007.

Mary’s book “From Where I Stand” a retrospective book of her photographic work to date was published in October 2010 by Thames & Hudson, with corresponding exhibitions in London (Hoppen Gallery) and New York (Staley Wise).

Mike Goodridge

Mike Goodridge is editor of Screen International and oversees all the brand’s products including daily news, reviews and box office site Screendaily.com. He joined Screen in 1994, where he spent 12 years in Los Angeles as Screen’s US editor in charge of all US coverage. He assumed the role of editor in Oct 2009 and moved to London in Jan 2010. He has written for publications including The Times, The Evening Standard, The Independent, Sight & Sound, and has a regular column in El Mundo’s prestigious El Cultural section in Spain. He published his first book ‘Directing’ in 2000 and is currently editor of a series of books about the film crafts which will start its publishing rollout in 2012. He is a member of BAFTA, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), FIPRESCI, London Film Critics Circle and the European Film Academy.


Tracey Seaward

Tracey Seaward has worked on a number of successful and acclaimed films earning her a BAFTA as well as an Oscar nomination. Most recently, she worked as co-producer on Steven Spielberg's First World War drama War Horse, based on the Michael Morpurgo novel. The film will be released in the UK in January 2012. She has had a long standing collaboration with director Stephen Frears producing his Dirty Pretty Things (2002), The Queen (2006), Cheri (2009) and Tamara Drewe (2010). The Queen was awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 2007, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award. Her other credits include Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, Danny Boyle's Millions, Neil Jordan's The Good Thief and Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Nothing Personal.

Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson is a BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated actress for her breakthrough performance in the title role in Jane Eyre. Since then she has gone on to star in two Stephen Poliakoff drama's; Capturing Mary, and A Real Summer.  Following that she starred in The Prisoner playing '313', Small Island as 'Queenie', and as 'Alice Morgan' in the BBC series Luther. In theatre, she was awarded an Olivier Award in 2010 for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Stella in Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse.  She then went on to play the lead role in Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly", followed by a return to the Donmar Warehouse in the title role of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie.  Ruth is currently filming Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, and following that is set to star as the female lead in The Lone Ranger alongside Johnny Depp. 


Josh Appignanesi

Josh Appignanesi’s debut feature, Song Of Songs, won awards such as a special Commendation at the Edinburgh Festival and a BIFA nomination. His second feature, The Infidel, is an indie comedy, starring BBC1 comedian Omid Djalili, and Emmy-winners Richard Schiff and Archie Panjabi. Penthouse! and variety show Red Velvet are examples of Josh’s early work, as well as shorts including BBC Talent winner Nine ½ Minutes, and Wellcome Trust funded, BIFA-nommed Ex Memoria. Currently writing an adaptation of Linda Grant’s novel When I Lived In Modern Times, Josh has also just finished drama short Rufus Stone, and is working on various other projects including psychological chiller Honeymoon Safari. Josh teaches at the London Film School, Arista, Script Factory, Film London, and the Met Film School.

Joseph Mawle

Joseph Mawle first came to note in Blast! Films, Soundproof (winning a BAFTA for Director and an RTS nomination for Breakthrough on Screen Award for Joe). Equally striking work followed, including Freefall, Oscar winner James Marsh’s Nineteen Eighty 'The Red Riding Trilogy', Five Daughters, The Street, Clapham Junction and playing Jesus in BBC/HBO’s The Passion, which was broadcast at the same time as he was on stage as Judas in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (nominated Outstanding Newcomer). This year, Joseph starred opposite Rosamund Pike in Women in Love, and also in HBO's Games of Thrones. Feature films include Heartless, The Awakening and Made in Dagenham. Next year will see him as Jack Firebrace in the adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong. Other releases include Cold Light of Day with Sigourney Weaver & Bruce Willis and 20th Century Fox’s Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. He has just completed filming Scott Graham's debut feature film Shell on the west coast of Scotland.


Neil Lamont

Neil began his film career in the Art Department on the Bond film “For Your Eyes Only” in 1981, going on to work on a further five Eon Productions through to “The World is Not Enough” He first joined with Production Designer Stuart Craig, after “Goldeneye”, in Tunisia on the film of Michael Ondaatje’s book “The English Patient”. This was followed by “In Love and War” and the infamous “The Avengers”. “Titanic” also sailed and sank during this period. They fell out of sync when Stuart Craig left for America and ”Bagger Vance”, with Neil working with Wolf Kroeger, Production Designer, to help realise the sets and locations designed for the film “Enemy at the Gates”, in Berlin.


The relationship with Stuart Craig was reconnected after a phone call enquiring about Neil’s availability for a film about Teenage Wizards, which would engage him and Stuart, unwittingly, for 10 years. Since completing the series of films, Neil has gone on to supervise “Warhorse” with the American Production Designer Rick Carter and “Gambit”, again with Stuart Craig, a wholly different experience of smaller film production than the previous decade, but nonetheless as rewarding.


He is currently working with Stuart Craig, developing new projects!