Fred Deakin is founding director of Airside, a small, experienced, innnovative and award-winning media studio, working across graphic design, illustration, digital, interactive and moving image. Their clients include Panasonic, Nokia, BBC and Virgin Atlantic. Fred is also a member of Mercury and Brit Awards nominated electronica band Lemon Jelly.
Riz Ahmed is one of the UK’s brightest young talents. Since graduating from Oxford in 2004 he has worked consistently in theatre, film and television, starring in award-winning dramas The Road To Guantanamo, Shifty and Four Lions.
Ohna Falby has a knack of producing incredible short films. She’s just set up new company, Life To Live Films, but before that she produced through Sister Films, the company she partnered with director Daniel Mulloy. Sister produced 6 shorts, which all had outstanding festival runs and received critical praise internationally, including BAFTA and BIFA wins and a European Academy Award nomination. In February 2012, BC Film will support Ohna to attend the Euro-Connection Forum at Clermont-Ferrand as the invited UK producer.