Access Executives
Screen WM has recently set up an Access Executive scheme in order to utilize the expertise and experience of regional talent to ensure that Screen WM schemes can reach as diverse a range of people as possible through one-to-one support, mentoring and advice.
Screen WM will attach Access Executives to certain projects or individuals when applying for funding to support them through the process.
Currently, our Access Executives are:
Pauline Bailey
With over twenty years experience of participatory arts practice, media production, project / curriculum management, in the creative industries, and learning and skills sectors, Pauline has developed a reputation for being a very good Trainer / Facilitator and Project Manager. Pauline has also produced and directed video and television productions in both the broadcast and voluntary sector as well as co-founding ‘Shomari Productions’, ‘I.D.E.A.L. Academy’.
Nathalie Benion
Nathalie’s background in films came from working for the BBC in both London and the Midlands as a project manager on innovation projects with BBC Drama and CBBC. She has worked alongside organisations such as MIT and with award winning writers such as Claire Bennett and Emily Perkins. Since leaving the BBC she set up First Film Academy which enables people from non-traditional backgrounds to explore and develop their creative potential.
Pogus Caesar
Pogus is an award winning broadcaster, he has Produced, Directed and Series Edited programmes for Central TV, Carlton TV, BBC TV and was the first Chairman of Birmingham International Film & TV Festival. In 1993 Caesar set up Windrush Productions, he has worked with individuals including Lennox Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Jada Pinkett Smith, Prince, Sir Paul McCartney and Isaac Hayes. Caesar now operates OOM Gallery, developing and producing a range of multi media projects.
Jemima Cattel
Until recently Jemima Cattel was the award-winning Deputy Director of Hi8us Midlands Ltd,and is now working as a freelance creative projects and business manager, specialising in media production, training and business development. She is currently working for a range of Creative and Cultural organisations throughout the West Midlands. Jemima is also a freelance writer for 4Talent (see IDEASFACTORY), Channel 4's 10 Years Younger website, TEN4 and Clutter magazine.
Ian Francis
Ian Francis is a film curator and writer based in Birmingham, with a particular interest in short film and fresh approaches to exhibition. He is a founding director of mobile film organisation 7 Inch Cinema, and Programme Director of the annual Flatpack Festival.
Lou Llewellyn
Lou works on a range of arts and media education projects in and around the West Midlands. This includes practical film making and journalism workshops with children and young people, training Arts Award Advisors in the region and providing advice and support to Mediabox applicants in the West Midlands. Previously she worked for The Rural Media Company in Hereford coordinating MediaNet and Herefordshire Education Action Zone as well as a broadcast journalist.
Pip Mcknight
Co-founder of 7 Inch Cinema with Ian Francis, Pip has a background in Youth and Community work and 6 years fundraising experience in both exhibition and production. Pip is Festival Director of Flatpack, 7 Inch Cinema’s major project and manages the company’s year-round activities.
Pam Relton
Pam is a broadcaster/trainer with over 20 years’ experience in both television and radio. Working mostly for the BBC, she has researched a wide range of output including documentaries, features and consumer programmes, and also worked as a broadcast journalist for news/current affairs. She is CIPD qualified in training and development and has undertaken post-graduate study in media education through the British Film Institute. She has delivered the BBC’s Production Research course for the last 10 years and also delivers courses in Creative Thinking, Generating Ideas and Interviewing Techniques. Other clients include ITV, Indie Training Fund, and leading independent television companies in the UK and Ireland. As a consultant, she works on training and development projects for Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the audio visual industries in the UK.
Alison Smith
Alison is an experienced arts professional with 15 years experience within the arts and creative industries with specialist background in Disability Arts and community engagement.
She was the Artistic Producer of DaDaFest International 08 (4-7 September 08) a 4 day international contemporary arts and film festival of Disability and Deaf Arts in Liverpool - one of the flagship celebrations part of Liverpool 08 (presented by North West Disablility Arts Forum). Alison also has expertise in strategic management, fundraising, community engagement and financial management. She is an Arts Awards Advisor and has worked across urban, rural, national and international settings.
Naomi Vera-Sanso
Naomi started her film-making career in observational documentary working at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at Manchester University. Her SWM Digital Short Phone-o-phobia won the Runner Up Award at the BBC New Film-Makers in 2006. Other short films have been screened on BBC2 and in 2006 she won a commission for BBC3 with a short starring John Henshaw (The Audition written by Paul Coates). She is the Festival Producer for the Midland's largest film festival, Borderlines Film Festival, operating in Herefordshire and Shropshire and programmes the Film and Disability Day at Borderlines. For eight years she taught film and video courses at BA, HND and MA levels and has experience leading community based projects for young people.
Yugesh Walia
Yugesh Walia is a producer/director who began making films in 1980. Since setting up Endboard Productions in 1985, his goal has been to make distinctive, individual films and bring the most compelling human stories to the screens of all the British TV terrestrial networks. Having made documentaries for twenty years, Yugesh is now making a transition into cinema features as this is what attracted him to film making in the first place. He is currently actively developing four feature length screenplays