Georgie Baker

Georgie is currently Head of Development at Lynda La Plante's eponymous film company. Before that she was Development Executive at Cougar Films. Georgie has worked for the BBC, ITV and Kudos - and has also worked as a literary agent and in publishing. 

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Sian Evans

Sian began her career as a literary translator and then moved into writing original drama.  Her plays and translations have been produced at major provincial and London venues including Sheffield Crucible, Liverpool Playhouse, Riverside Studios, Theatre Clwyd and The National Theatre. She now concentrates on film and television, though a new play was recently shortlisted in the Amnesty competition Protecting The Human.  She has written over thirty hours of broadcast tv including episodes of Touching Evil, Peak Practice, Where The Heart Is, Casualty etc as well as her own one off dramas and a series, Hereafter for ITV, starring Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kieran. She's currently writing a new series based on the Irish community in Cape Town. She also lectures on screenwriting at the University of East Anglia.  She currently lives in Norwich with her two children and an assortment of pets.

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Liz Garner

Liz has worked on the scriptreading board at Miramax in London, and subsequently was Head of Development at Gorgeous, an independent film production company. She now freelances for a number of outfits, including the Irish Film Development Board.

Liz is also a prize-winning writer in her own right. Her first novel Nightdancing (from Hodder Headline) was short-listed for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and also for the Pendleton May First Novel Award. Her second novel, Edgar Jones, is forthcoming from the same publishers.

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Pauline Kiernan

Pauline is a successful screenwriter, script reader, award-winning playwright and Shakespeare scholar.

She has been commissioned to write two screenplays by an independent Hollywood producer, the first now in development. She has also been commissioned to work on a script by a distinguished English producer about a famous composer, and has also been commissioned to write a film set in contemporary Africa by a young English production company.

Her latest book on Shakespeare is published this October.

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Jeremy Sheldon

Jeremy is an experienced film consultant, writing tutor and novelist. In addition to writing two books, The Comfort Zone and The Smiling Affair (both Jonathan Cape), Jeremy has seven years experience as a consultant for a number of film production companies including Miramax, Working Title, Film Four, Icon Entertainment and Material Entertainment. In addition to this, he has worked as a script editor for the Irish Filmboard and a number of other clients and is currently (co)writing his first screenplay as well as completing his third novel, a thriller titled The Stars of Kashmir.

Jeremy is also a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and teaches both at Imperial College and on the MA in Creative Writing programme at Birkbeck College, University of London where he runs a workshop specifically focused on Narrative & Genre. He doesn't really look like Robert de Niro, and he isn't a vicar.

Amber Trentham

Amber became a fiction editor, until she had a baby whereupon she became a script reader for various illuminates: Working Title Films, UK Film Council, ICM, FAME and Gorgeous Films.

She then became a freelance script editor and consultant, tried her hand at writing features, realised how difficult it was, and enrolled in a screenwriting MA at LCP.

For the last three years she has been developing scripts with writers, directors and producers, whilst writing all the while. She received her first film commission at the beginning of last year, and is now onto her second. She is represented by the well-known Casarotto film agency.