Speakers

Adrian has advised broadcasters, producers and distributors in the TV and film industry since being seconded to UKTV by law firm Wiggin in 2000. Since then he has acted as Head of Legal & Business Affairs at Channel 5, BBC Studios, and Euro-streamer Viaplay and worked at ITV and BT TV.

Adrian advises on all legal and business affairs aspects of TV and film development, production, finance and distribution. Typical areas of work are chain of title, book options, shopping deals, negotiating development, talent, output, deficit financing, distribution, production and international co-production arrangements across the UK, Europe, the US and Australia.

Triple Exposure is a collaboration of film industry experts in accountancy, law and insurance in an easy-to-use one-stop shop for all those making and creating in the film and television industry.

The Alliotts team of specialist accountants, business experts and tax advisers cover a full range of specialist accounting, tax, audit and corporate finance services advice. Performance Film & Media Insurance helps productions of all sizes with insurance and understanding how to meet the diverse range of risks in the film and television production industry. Specialist law firm Reviewed and Cleared advises on legal areas in the creation and publication of content and compliance for all media formats on all media platforms.

Alexandra is a film educator and independent filmmaker with more than 25 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer on the BA Film Production and MA Filmmaking programmes at the University of Roehampton, with responsibility for documentary production and theory.

She has an MA from the Northern Film School; and extensive industry experience as a sound recordist and sound editor, specialising in small-team observational documentaries.

Widening access to the industry is central to her work. At Roehampton, she established Doc Exchange, linking emerging filmmakers with mentors including Kim Longinotto and Sean McAllister. Previously, she raised funding for, and piloted, a groundbreaking practical training programme for women refugees at Four Corners film workshop.

Alexandra continues to work as a filmmaker and is currently in post-production on a hybrid documentary about 1960s New York. Her previous documentary as director/producer is in distribution with the British Council. She is on the NAHEMI executive committee.

Ali makes bold, character-driven TV. Armando Iannucci gave her a first break as a producer, having cut her teeth on comedy landmarks such as The Day Today, Brass Eye and I'm Alan Partridge, working closely with Iannucci and Chris Morris. At Baby Cow, she produced the company's first award-winning series, Human Remains (Julia Davis, Rob Brydon), and going on to produce Nighty Night (Julia Davis) and The Mighty Boosh (Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding). Then came something genuinely unusual: Where Are the Joneses?, a 93-part interactive sitcom for Ford, shot across Europe.

She's since pitched and produced series from scratch — Starlings for Sky1 HD, commissioned from nothing. Asked to create a Sky Atlantic anthology, she made Common Ground, pairing new talent with veterans such as Charles Dance and Sean Pertwee. Other highlights include a BBC pilot, Lizzie & Sarah (Julia Davis, Jessica Hynes), two Sky Arts dramas — Gifted (Rhys Ifans) and Timeless (Sylvia Syms, Cara Delevingne) and a Tim Firth BBC TV film, Cruise of the Gods (Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon). Three series of critically acclaimed and much loved, Uncle (Nick Helm, Daisy Haggard, Brett Goldstein) followed for BBC Comedy.

More recent work includes three series of BBC Drama’s award winning Boarders and a massively over-performing comedy short for BBC Studios, Proper Ladies. When not freelancing for other companiesAli is one half of Bally Bee Pictures, developing a feature film slate.

Writer-director Alicia started out in 2015 making comedy short films (Otherwise Engaged and Domestic Policy) and sketches (Bad News and Taxing) before making her TV directing debut with the C4 comedy-drama Pure. She went on to direct episodes of Stephen Merchant's The Outlaws for the BBC and Lena Dunham's Too Much for Netflix. Her first feature film Finding Emily was produced by Working Title Films and Focus Features and stars Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn.

Alison Grade is the founder and CEO of Mission Accomplished, a specialist training company supporting people and businesses across the film, TV and creative industries. She is the author of The Freelance Bible, a practical guide to building a successful and sustainable freelance career. Drawing on her experience as an entrepreneur, trainer and industry leader, Alison helps freelancers think more commercially about their careers – from understanding their value and finding work to managing money, building relationships and creating long-term resilience. She works with freelancers at every career stage, from new entrants through to experienced industry professionals.

Amy is a documentary filmmaker and producer, currently directing Shiptonthorpe’s Summer through Netflix’s Documentary Talent Fund. As a director, her films have screened at multiple festivals including Sheffield DocFest, and she won Best Documentary at the Soho London Independent Film Festival.

As a producer, Amy has developed and produced documentaries for major platforms including Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Broadcast Magazine named her in its 'Hot Shots' focus, describing her as a “creative and empathetic storyteller with a talent for unearthing compelling narratives”.

Amy is also the founder of Gutsy Film Festival, celebrating the work of filmmakers with non-visible disabilities and chronic illnesses. She also served as a juror for the 2026 Grierson British Documentary Awards. After graduating from QMUL in 2016, she began her career through a Creative Access work placement.

Anna is Head of Programming and Communications at Regent Street Cinema, curating independent films and special repertory seasons and filmmaker talks. She also lectures at the University of Westminster, having built an extensive career in the industry working in exhibition. She has mentored within the UNIC Women’s Cinema Leadership Programme and is passionate about championing diverse and inclusive cinematic programming. Her roles have included the Head of Film for independent cinema chain, The Light, and previously as managing specialist programming across the ODEON cinemas group’s 12 territories, including Foreign Language Cinema, sub-brands, back catalogue, alternative content and other special screening opportunities. She has also worked for Vue Entertainment.

Bec is a seasoned entertainment executive with decades of leadership experience across global streaming platforms, major studios, and independent distributors. At Netflix, she established the company’s first international office in the UK, spending nearly a decade there. Earlier in her career, Bec helped launch and scale independent distributors Momentum Pictures and Entertainment One, and held roles at Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures.

Bec is now co-founder of Beam Lighthouse, an IP studio and entertainment consultancy engaging audiences in a way that is both culturally and commercially impactful.

Carmen has specialised in music supervision for film and television since 2014 and has enjoyed 20 years of success placing music to picture and picture to music across film, TV, advertising and music video. Her music supervisor credits include BAFTA winning Supacell (Netflix), RTS winning Boarders (BBC), multi- ward-winning Dragonfly (feature film) and Emmy-winning Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (feature documentary). Her forthcoming credits include Faith, a feature film by Paul Andrew Williams and The Arrival a feature film by Bijan Sheibani, music supervised with Sarah Giles for King Lear Music & Sound.

Cey Sesiguzel is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and Founder of Two Fresh Studios, a UK production and distribution company focused on bold, culturally distinctive cinema. He directed, produced and independently distributed the feature documentary The Divided Island, which explored the Cyprus conflict through both Greek and Turkish Cypriot perspectives. He went on to distribute the Greek box office smash Stelios in the UK, further developing his experience in bringing culturally specific films to new audiences. In 2027, he will release his latest feature documentary, The Last Notification. Through Two Fresh Studios, Cey is now developing, producing and distributing independent feature films for audiences in the UK and internationally.

Christine is co-founder and COO of My SMASH Media, an IP matchmaking platform for the creative industries, starting in film and TV. Think of it as a dating app for creative projects.

SMASH connects creators with industry decision-makers, helping producers, commissioners, studios and streamers discover projects that match their briefs and reach beyond their existing networks. The platform gives creators a free, industry-standard Pitch Builder and IP Protection.

SMASHPro offers additional tools and support from the SMASHCupid team.

She co-founded SMASH with fellow producer Fiona Gillies, whom she met on the CreativeEngland Market Trader programme, and product expert Mahesh Ramachandra.

Her background spans corporate live events and feature film production. Films she produced include WMD (2008), one of the first films to follow a reverse distribution strategy, and Containment (2016), which sold worldwide. She has also exec-produced short and feature films, and received development funding from Creative Europe and the BFI.

Denzil is founding CEO at ecosophical production company Bosena, certified as a B Corp in 2026. The award-winning ‘Cornish Powerhouse’ (Screen International’s Brit 50 ‘ones to watch’) most recently produced Mark Jenkin’s Venice Orizzonti feature Rose of Nevada (2025) starring George MacKay and Callum Turner. Previous titles include Jim Hosking’s ‘absurd revisionist comedy’ Ebony and Ivory (2024), Christopher Morris's acclaimed eco-doc A Year in a Field(2023), Mark Jenkin's BIFA-winning, Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection Enys Men (2022). He was also Associate Producer on Jenkin's BAFTA-winning breakout Bait. Denzil is a Bard of Gorsedh Kernow, a commissioning EP at Screen Cornwall and an active member of UN Climate Change global collective Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action (ECCA).

Dhiraj produced Ish, the debut feature film from acclaimed artist, Imran Perretta, and co-written with Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. Dhiraj was awarded a BIFA for breakthrough producer, and Ish won the Audience Award at the Venice International Film Festival Critics’ Week, where the film received its World Premiere. Prior to this Dhiraj was development producer at Moonspun Films, where he worked alongside Tracy O'Riordan and was responsible for managing the company's development slate. Previously Dhiraj was programme manager at Inside Pictures, the prestigious business development and leadership programme for senior film executives and producers. He executive produced Gareth Tunley's acclaimed debut feature film The Ghoul, which was both BIFA and BAFTA nominated. He was also sales and distribution consultant on both Clio Barnard's groundbreaking debut The Arbor and her fourth film Ali & Ava. He has held various other roles including charity trustee and university tutor.

Oliver is the programme lead for the BA (Hons) Animation and the new MA programme for Creative Industries Practice (2027 onwards) at the School of Design & Creative Industries, University of Greenwich. He is an internationally recognised media arts practitioner, critical theorist and researcher, with a focus on holographic presence, participatory arts, and pedagogy. As the holder of an AHRC Research grant on participatory media arts and its effect on social connectedness and public health, he is exploring the intersection between public and artists through co-creation practices, creativity and wellbeing. The p_ART_icipate research, developed with NHS Foundation Trust, Brunel University and collaborators, has led to the publication of guidelines for ethical and accessible participatory practices for the arts in digital media, including ethical data governance for digital creative health (www.participateresearch.co.uk).

At the University of Greenwich's School of Design & Creative Industries, Oliver founded the Animation Industry Partner Network, which is championing discourse around, AI and employability.

Sophia is a lecturer, arts critic and film programmer. She is Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts and writes regularly for Sight & Sound and Another Gaze, among other places. Her curatorial work explores the intersection of film, consciousness, and belief, and seeks to highlight marginal, experimental, and non-fiction film practices. She has conceived film programmes for Open City Documentary Festival, the British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tyneside Cinema, Portobello Film Festival, and Regent Street Cinema.

Eleni is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the Programme Director of the BA Film and Media and pioneer of Birkbeck's first Student Film and Media Festival that showcases the breadth and depth of students’ critical film and media practice. The festival has been successfully running for three years, offering a unique opportunity to Birkbeck staff and students to work together and co-create. Eleni has published widely on issues and histories of ethnic diversity in British screen media. She is currently completing a book on European emigres in British television history.

Ella is a comedy creator who found her creative voice through TikTok, using the platform to experiment with sketches, performance and comedy on her own terms. What began as a personal outlet became a way of discovering both her confidence and, ultimately, her path, landing her a Channel4 series commission.

Gareth has been working in insurance for over 25 years and specialising within the Media and Creative Industries for over 14 of those. Gareth is an Account Executive at Performance Film & TV Insurance (Part of Howden) and his clients range from feature film and High End TV, equipment hire, post-production and film schools.

Triple Exposure is a collaboration of film industry experts in accountancy, law and insurance in an easy-to-use one-stop shop for all those making and creating in the film and television industry.

The Alliotts team of specialist accountants, business experts and tax advisers cover a full range of specialist accounting, tax, audit and corporate finance services advice. Performance Film & Media Insurance helps productions of all sizes with insurance and understanding how to meet the diverse range of risks in the film and television production industry. Specialist law firm Reviewed and Cleared advises on legal areas in the creation and publication of content and compliance for all media formats on all media platforms.

Grazia is Senior Lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University of London. She has written about film archives, new media, colonial cinema, and decolonisation in several edited volumes and journals including The Moving Image, Screen and the JCMS.Her book, Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital, came out in January 2024. She is Vice-President of Domitor: The International Society for the Study of Early Cinema.

Ioanna is a producer and production manager with over two decades of experience across film, television and digital media. Her work spans independent features, premium short-form storytelling and factual programming for broadcasters and publishers including Channel 4, the BBC, News UK and The Times.

Most recently, Ioanna produced the action-adventure feature Bad Day at the Office and previously Son of the Soil, both directed by Chee Keong Cheung.

Her producing credits include the internationally distributed action-horror feature Redcon-1, the BFI Network-supported period drama Tommies, and the award-winning feature Eliminate: Archie Cookson, which screened at festivals internationally including Palm Springs.

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Jonathan is a film marketing and distribution executive, consultant, producer and author with more than 25 years’ experience across the UK independent and studio sectors. His career has included senior roles at Universal, Momentum Pictures, Arrow Films, Revolver Entertainment and Vertigo Releasing, working across theatrical, home entertainment and digital distribution. Through Magus Films, Jonathan now produces and advises independent filmmakers on positioning, marketing and distribution strategy. He is the author of Film Marketing & Distribution, published by Kamera Books, and regularly speaks and teaches on the realities of bringing independent films to market and navigating an increasingly complex distribution landscape.

Justin is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, writer and producer, and the founder of 104 Films, one of the UK's leading disabled-led film production companies. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, he has directed feature films including Large (Film4), We Are the Freaks and The Marker, alongside television drama for the BBC.

As a producer, his credits include the BAFTA-nominated documentaries Notes on Blindness and Unrest, and the groundbreaking British Sign Language feature Retreat. His award-winning short film Special People premiered at Tribeca and helped establish his reputation as a pioneering voice in disability-led cinema.

Through 104 Films, Justin has championed disabled filmmakers and inclusive storytelling, producing award-winning work and developing opportunities for underrepresented talent across the UK film industry.

Kadri is the co-owner of the LAUZZA Youtube platform - working as Executive Producer across all visual media, while leading the brand partnerships and activations for the channel.

Kadri is also the founder of COMPULSORY, the award-winning London-based entertainment company. Specialising in film, music video and advertising production for over 11 years, the company has built a reputation in the industry as a tastemaker and pioneer of impressionable work. Clients include Madonna, Stormzy, Pink Pantheress, Gucci, Adidas, Mercedes and more.

Kadri's narrative film catalogue has been nominated at the BAFTAs, Sundance, Cannes, Raindance and SXSW.

Katharina Gellein Viken is Executive Producer and CEO at Metrotone Media, the first true multi-platform studio encompassing the microdrama space as well as hybrid AI workflows. Kat is a former Dancing with the Stars showrunner with over 70 hours of TV under her belt, and the UK’s foremost female speaker on the AI and microdrama economies. With Metrotone as the production arm of the tech startup Screenburn group, she helps build solutions for the emerging new media landscape.

Kat trained as an actress at Rose Bruford College and her short, Of Her I Dream, won several international awards and toured the world and has since directed feature films, political documentaries, documentary series and format-based shows.

Kathryn brings over a decade of experience of using AI and emerging technologies to help bring creative visions to life and drive value for creative clients.

She has worked with world-class clients such as Amazon studios, Fender and Nike to create many interactive and innovative creative experiences. Kathryn has also been a strong advocate for ethical uses of AI, actively contributing to research projects at UAL and Oxford Saïd Business School and helping to establish a more ethical AI practice at WPP – the world’s largest producer of creative advertising content.

AMICI has created an innovation network to bring together filmmakers, AI toolmakers, academia and legal professionals – to collaborate on how to safely and usefully integrate AI into the industry. Together we are creating standards and resources to support responsible AI innovation for all businesses and individuals working in industry today.

Kim studied camera and directing at England's National Film School, where she made Pride of Place in 1976, a critical look at her boarding school, and THEATRE GIRLS filmed in a hostel for homeless women.

During her incredible career she has made over 20 films and is a leading documentary maker with her work winning international film awards (Sisters in Law, Divorce Iranian Style, Shooting the Mafia). Her intimate, thoughtful and highly skilled observational style has often told stories of women, rebels and pioneers, and as she has said herself, ‘underdogs’.

She has just finished a film with Dalton Harris, a Jamaican-born musician now based in the UK. And is currently writing a book about her experiences as a filmmaker to be published by OR books next year.

Longinotto says: “I don't want you to be thinking about me, or the camera or the filming when you watch my films. I want you to feel that you're there, standing where I am and going through the emotional experience……I like it when a documentary has the same constraints as fiction, when it doesn't have to give you a lesson or teach you what to think.”

Laura produces Particle 6’s feature film slate and leads its work developing AI tools and workflows for directors in long-form narrative production. Before joining Particle 6, she spent almost a decade in high-end film and television as a 2nd Unit Director and development consultant, working closely with directors including Alexander Payne, Shannon Murphy and Christian Schwochow. She also ran her own development and pitch company, helping production companies and directors get projects greenlit. Her credits include The Crown, The Power, The Great and Age of Innocence, alongside commercials for McDonald’s and Marie Curie.

Lucy is an Emmy, BAFTA and IFTA nominated Casting Director. She has worked in the industry for over 10 years, working alongside Nina Gold, Carmen Cuba, and Sarah Crowe, and has worked on projects for Netflix, Apple, HBO, Neal Street and more. Most recent casting director credits are Say Nothing and Bad Sisters.

Lucy is Professor of Film Philosophy at Queen Mary University of London, where she teaches and researches film philosophy and film stardom. Her most recent book is The Feminist Film Philosophy Reader, and she is currently writing on a monograph titled Philosophies of Film Stardom: Ethics, Aesthetics, Phenomenologies. She is co-editor of Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure, author of Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch, and of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema, and Thinking Women. She co-edits the book series Visionaries: the Work of Women Filmmakers, with EUP.

Lucy is an award-winning filmmaker and Professor of Film and Television and Head of Screen at the University of Westminster. She has produced projects for BBC, Channel 4, Nickelodeon and Disney. Her research focuses on collaborative creativity, inclusive storytelling and talent development.

Mandy has spent over 25 years in broadcast television, across creative, production and operational roles giving her deep, practical understanding of how content is made and where the real opportunities for change lie. Over the past six years, she has advised major studios on sustainable production practices across a wide range of TV and film projects, in the UK, Europe, Far East and USA.

Her work as a Sustainability Advisor sits at the intersection of sustainable production, climate storytelling and culture change. She supports writers, producers and crews to integrate sustainable thinking into every aspect of their decision-making, from practical on-set behaviours to the way climate is reflected in narrative and character. She is particularly interested in how storytelling can normalise change, making sustainable choices feel natural and achievable for audiences, not just industry insiders. At the heart of her approach is a belief in progress over perfection, and in an industry that doesn’t just reflect the world we live in but helps shape a better one.

Born and raised in Singapore, Mark started out as a motion graphics designer at the BBC and Channel 4. He has since produced a wide range of creative content with an emphasis on narrative documentaries. His breakthrough film was the Grierson Award winning short Talk to Me, and his critically acclaimed feature documentary The Last Man on the Moon was released theatrically in the US and the UK. This was followed by Running for the Revolution, the story of Cuba's greatest Olympic track athlete. His most recent film is APOLLO 1 about the defining 1967 space disaster. He is based in London and the north-east of England and is a part-time lecturer at Roehampton University.

Mark is a film programmer from Nottingham and director of the UK Green Film Network, supporting cinemas to develop their environmental programming. This includes film distribution, audience development, organising and managing ‘eventised’ screenings, running student competitions for sustainable filmmaking, and supporting self-distribution of independent films to cinemas around the country. In other work, he has developed projects such as the Nottingham Palestine Film Festival and Rambling Cinema with a focus on community outreach, collaborative programming and diverse representation. His favourite film is Minding the Gap.

Misia is a Development Producer at Dogwoof, specialising in premium feature documentaries and series for global audiences. She joined Dogwoof in 2023 to help spearhead its Originals Development department by originating ambitious projects, securing exclusive access, fleshing out creative concepts, and bringing together distinctive creative talent. Her work also explores emerging formats, including vertical serialised storytelling and bitesize entertainment for social platforms. Her credits include Merkel, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In and Rising Phoenix. Born in Poland and based in London, Misia holds an MA in Filmmaking: Business and Producing and a Diploma in Production Management.

Morgana is the BFI Filmmaking Fund’s Senior Inclusion & Industry Manager, leading on the fund’s equity, diversity and inclusion priorities and initiatives. She also works across wellbeing, access and the Diversity Standards development for feature film production.

Morgana has worked across multiple areas of the UK independent film industry starting in sales agent HanWay Films, then with producers Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin at Blueprint Pictures and more recently as an agent at Sara Putt Associates where she championed crew from underrepresented groups.

Natalia is an audio technologist, sound engineer, music producer and educator based in England. With a Grammy Award-winning career, she has worked with artists such as Sam Smith, Flyte, Jaz Coleman, Martin 'Youth' Glover, Bernard Butler and Paolo Nutini, and companies such as the BBC, Disney, Netflix and ITV in various world-class studios. She develops workflows and methodologies that explore emerging technologies to empower creative expression and expand what is possible in music. Her work combines traditional production techniques with cutting-edge technologies, such as AI-assisted composition and production workflows, motion capture, immersive technologies, spatial audio, remote production and automated systems.

Neil Fox is professor of film practice and pedagogy at Falmouth University where he is the research and strategy lead for the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, and a producer on films such as The Archivist (2026), Rose of Nevada (Jenkin, 2025), Ebony & Ivory (Hosking, 2024) and A Year In A Field (Morris, 2023). He was one of half of The Cinematologists podcast (2015-2025), described as “consistently one of the finest film podcasts around” by Sight and Sound. His debut feature film as screenwriter ‘Wilderness’ was released by Sparky Pictures in 2021. His first book, Music Films, was released by BFI/Bloomsbury in May 2024.

Paul is the CEO and Executive Producer at Magical Society UK, co-founded in partnership with the Paris-based television and film studio Magical Society, headed by producer Aton Soumache (Le Petit Prince) and prolific graphic novelist Joann Sfar.

His producing and executive producing credits include Disney’s BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Saving Mr Banks, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy for the BBC and HBO, Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre, and Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, winner Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

He was previously the Head of the New Cinema Fund at the UK Film Council, where he funded and executive produced films such as Paul Greengrass’ Bloody Sunday, (Golden Bear, Berlinale) Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters (Golden Lion, Venice), Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley,(Palme d’Or, Cannes), Kevin Macdonald’s Touching the Void (BAFTA, Best British Film) and Andrea Arnold’s Red Road (Grand Jury Prize, Cannes).

He recently produced Virdee, the Bradford set crime thriller series for BBC One, based on the Harry Virdee crime novels by AA Dhand.

Paul was the co-founder of the New Producer’s Alliance, a board member of producer organisation PACT, and sits on the University of Westminster Regent St Cinema Advisory Board.

Rose has more than 35 years’ experience in theatre, film and television. She has been working to promote best practise within industry and education when working with intimate scenes and is an accredited professional Intimacy Direction and Coordination with Intimacy on Set, SAG-AFTRA; BECTU IC Registry).

As an Intimacy Coordinator Rose invites agreement and consent in all areas so that cast and crew can work openly, creatively, feeling empowered, creating a working environment that feels safe and in which everyone is free to create beautiful intimate content. She is particularly interested in non-verbal consent and how that manifests for actors and crew across the film and TV industry.

Samuel is a key member of the Alliotts Media team of chartered accountants and business advisors supporting UK-based and international clients, and is also a member of the Production Guild’s Diversity and Inclusion Group

Samuel’s primary role involves delivering accounting, management reporting, VAT and cash flow reporting services to clients helping to ensure that they remain compliant with filing deadlines and have the financial data needed to make key decisions.

Triple Exposure is a collaboration of film industry experts in accountancy, law and insurance in an easy-to-use one-stop shop for all those making and creating in the film and television industry.

The Alliotts team of specialist accountants, business experts and tax advisers cover a full range of specialist accounting, tax, audit and corporate finance services advice. Performance Film & Media Insurance helps productions of all sizes with insurance and understanding how to meet the diverse range of risks in the film and television production industry. Specialist law firm Reviewed and Cleared advises on legal areas in the creation and publication of content and compliance for all media formats on all media platforms.

Simon is the Managing Director of Seven Seas Films, the independent production company he co-founded with the drama writer, Dan Sefton. Together they have produced the sitcom Porters (with Dancing Ledge Productions for DAVE), thriller Finders Keepers (for C5) and the feature documentary The Show Must Go On : The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (ABC & Netflix).

Prior to that, Simon was a producer working for BBC Studios, ITV Studios, Leftbank Pictures and Retort, as well as a Commissioning Editor for the BBC and UKTV, where he was responsible for shows such as The Trip (BAFTA winner), Getting On (BAFTA, RTS, WGGB winner), Harry and Paul (BAFTA winner) the Rose D’Or winning Henry IX and two series of Red Dwarf.

Theo is an executive producer working in podcasting since 2021. After graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in history, he spent time in the music industry working as an audio engineer, before joining Goalhanger as an assistant producer. After three years of producing one of their hit shows, The Rest Is History, Theo left Goalhanger, and subsequently joined the production team at Bold Politics with Zack Polanski as executive producer in early 2026.

Valentina is a British-Italian filmmaker and creative producer based in London. Co-founder of production company Daitona and its advertising division DOGODOT, she works across film, documentary, commercial and TV. Her work has screened at A-list festivals around the world, including Venice Film Festival, and been distributed on key platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, History Channel and Channel 4. She is also Associate Professor of Film and TV at the University of Greenwich, with research interests focused on the intersection between film history and film financing.

With over 14 years in film distribution and more than 1,000 titles managed, Zack has built his career championing independent filmmakers and helping their stories reach global audiences. From sales, rights management, and windowing to AVOD, transactional, and emerging Web3 models, he has seen every corner of the industry and what it needs.

With Hiway he set out to fix the most fundamental problem in film distribution: a lack of transparency. Creators deserve clear data, honest reporting, and a direct connection to the audiences who love their work. Distributors and buyers deserve clean, secure workflows that remove the friction that slows the industry down.