The Team
BRUCE GOODISON
Director/Producer
An award-winning documentary and drama director. He directed Kenneth Branagh and Juliet Stevenson in the acclaimed series Ten Days to War. And he’s directed on the mainstream drama Silent Witness. His drama-documentary, FLIGHT 93: The Flight that Fought Back, was nominated for an Emmy for the Best TV movie. Brinks Mat: The Greatest Heist was nominated for a BAFTA. SAS: Siege won the Grierson Award for the Best Historical Documentary in 2003.
TINA CAWTE
Executive Producer
An experienced Producer and Exec of documentary films and Factual Programmes. Her passion is for great stories that are well told and well crafted. She has a Masters Degree in Child Psychotherapy is a specialist in the field of child and adolescent mental health. In addition to filmmaking she works with young people with mental health issues, using film making as a means of therapeutic expression.
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ADAM WISHART
Co-Producer
An award-winning documentary maker and writer. His feature-length Monkeys, Rats and Me was awarded the Grierson Award for the Best Science Documentary in 2007. Warlords Next Door? won the Best Political Documentary in the Banff International Television Awards. His book One in Three: a son’s journey into the history and science of cancer was shortlisted for the Royal Society Book Award.
LAURENCE CORIAT
Script Editor
A French screenwriter who has collaborated with director Michael Winterbottom on three feature films: Wonderland (1999), which was in competition at Cannes and won the Best British Independent Film Award; A Mighty Heart (2007) which starred Angelina Jolie; and Genova (2007) which starred Colin Firth and Catherine Keener. In addition to her writing work, Laurence also began directing herself in 2005 winning acclaim with the shorts Being Bad and Holiday before being selected to make a UK Film Council Cinema Extreme film, New love.
CHARLOTTE BOULAY-GOLDSMITH
Co-Writer
After studying philosophy and Liberal Arts at Concordia University in Canada, Charlotte realised that what she most loved were stories. Following an MA in screenwriting at the London Film School where she wrote the award nominated feature length script, “Rika and Mallon” she has written and directed several shorts before working as assistant editor on an Arte documentary. She has. collaborated with filmmakers, co-wrote an animation script for Pathé with Stanislas Grazianni, written “Lou”, a biopic for future production and co-directed a multi-award nominated short animation, “The Girl With Liquid Eyes” with a second in development.
PIPPA CROSS
Executive Producer
An award winning indie film and TV Producer. Pippa has also been appointed to the UK Film Council’s Board of Directors. With over twenty years of experience, Pippa’s credits include acclaimed films such My Left Foot, Bloody Sunday and most recently Shooting Dogs – The highly acclaimed film about the Rwandan Genocide.
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KATE COOK
Producer
An established Line Producer who has worked across both high-end documentaries and factual drama. She has worked along side Bruce Goodison on the award winning 10-days to War and BAFTA nominated Brinks Mat: The Greatest Heist. Her recent credits include Grierson nominated BBC drama Antiques Rogue Show and The Canoe Man both directed by Norman Hull as well as Green Award Winner, The Blood of the Rose, directed by Henry Singer.s
JAMES LEVISON
Producer
Before becoming an independent producer James worked at Daybreak Pictures were he helped produce high profile political drama’s on television and film such as the BAFTA winning Britz and The Trial of Tony Blair. He was also Associate Producer on the Peabody Award winning and Emmy & Golden Globe nominated Endgame starring William Hurt and Chiwetel Ejiofor. James has recently produced the award winning short film Knock Off and was chosen as an up-coming producer by the British Council and Script Factory for their European Creative Collaboration Scheme.
KAT AMARA-KORBA
Assistant Producer/Script Researcher
Kat has worked on a number of projects involving refugee’s and the problems they encounter in the UK including a series of short films for Channel 4 – Tales from Home. She is pleased to have the opportunity to work again with such an inspiring and yet vulnerable community.
ABDI
Cameraman & Editor
Filming and editing the ‘making of’ Leave to Remain. Abdi is experienced as an ITN cameraman and editor and as a 23-year old Somalian refugee, brings a special talent in the creation and documentation of this unique project.