Alison Sterling

Alison is a producer and line producer with credits in television and film.  Most recent credits for TV: Eric Ernie and Me (BBC), Unspeakable and The Interrogation (Channel 4). She previously produced Flying Blind, a feature film directed by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and was released by Soda Pictures. She is developing a slate of feature film projects with female talent. She previously produced numerous short films funded by BBC, Film4, Creative England and BFI, including Turning(BAFTA nominated 2011) and Flytopia, which have screened at dozens of festivals and won many awards. She is an ACE producer, sits on the Board of Encounters Short Film Festival, and is one of the organisers of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. 

Mike Riley

Michael directed and produced a number of short film and TV dramas before settling into feature film production. He established his production company Sterling Pictures in 1995. His fiction work includes twenty-six feature films, many of which have won prizes at international film festivals. He was one of the youngest ever producers of a major BBC drama serial (the $14m epic family saga “IN A LAND OF PLENTY”, nominated for a RTS award and Top Ten Fiction at the Koln Conference). His film for artist Zarina Bhimji was nominated for the Turner Prize, his documentary "CHINA'S WILD WEST" premiered at Sundance Film Festival and he won Best Film at the Milan International Film Festival for “VAMPIRE DIARY”. His controversial and highly acclaimed “THE SEASONING HOUSE” won the Critics’ Award at Fantasporto and Best Film at Mile High in Colorado. His most recent films include the WW2 action/drama “CHOSEN” starring Harvey Keitel, the critically-acclaimed sailing drama/biopic “CROWHURST” for StudioCanal and the recently completed period horror/thriller “HERETIKS” (world premier FrightFest 2018). He sits on numerous film festival juries, is a voting member of BAFTA and The European Film Academy, and is an alumni of the MEDIA II Film Business School in Ronda.

Kate Cook

Kate started life in production working for the prestigious Oxford Film & Television (Hilary & Jackie, Bradford Riots) before establishing herself as a Producer across both high-end documentary and factual drama. Working alongside an array of critically acclaimed Filmmakers Kate has built a reputation for producing cutting edge stories from the multi-award winning BBC musical drama “Glasgow Girls” (Scottish BAFTA/RTS/Broadcast/CIVIS Media Prize) featuring Gary Lewis and an ensemble cast of young actors, to the political thriller “Julius Caesar” directed by Gregory Doran of the RSC. 

In 2014 she saw the theatrical release of her first feature “Leave to Remain” – a coming of age drama about the lives of teenagers seeking asylum in the UK, featuring Toby Jones and a soundtrack by multi-award winning band Alt-J.

Her most recent work includes The Interrogation of Tony Martin, played by Steve Pemberton, Unspeakable– starring Indira Varma and Luke Treadaway and Broadcast nominated The Watchman a Channel 4 thriller starring Stephen Graham. She is currently producing a feature length drama for Channel 4.

Jayne Chard

Jayne started her professional career as a theatre director before moving over to television where she produced and directed  documentaries for BBC, ITV and Channel Four before moving into drama series directing and then to producing television drama and feature films. Flesh and Blood(working title) is Jayne’s latest feature film shot in Australia and the UK, directed by Jesse O’Brien. B&B (2017), starring Tom Bateman (Murder On The Orient Express), Sean Teale (Gifted) and Paul McGann, (Dr Who), written and directed by Joe Ahearne. (Trance, The Replacement)won ten awards including Best LGBT Thriller at the London Independent Film Festival (2017). In 2015 Jayne produced Dartmoor Killingwhich won Best Thriller at the 2016 National Film Awards and also Best Premier (Under 99 screens) at the 2016 Screen Awards. 

Jayne has produced a number of shorts including I’ll Tell Youby Writer/Director BAFTA winner Rachel Tillotson which wonthe Best of The West at the 2011 Encounters Festival.

Jayne is developing a slate of genre features and television series. 

Ben Greenacre

Over the last few years Ben has been working as a UPM, Line Producer and Co- Producer on films and TV Drama.  The films include: ‘Jack the Giant Killer’; ‘The Prone Gunman’; ‘Pride’; 'Waiting for You’’ and ‘Profile’; and in Bristol ‘Eight Minutes Idle’, ‘The Fold’ and ‘Hellboy’.   The HETV shows include ‘The White Princess’ & ‘Fortitude’ in Bristol; 'The Bastard Executioner’  in Wales; and 'Black Mirror’ and ‘The Brave’ further afield in London, Spain and Morocco.  Ben has also been lucky enough to produce two award-winning shorts. 

Ben is a Bristolian who is enjoying being back home after 20 years in London and is a (sometimes over-) enthusiastic advocate of drama production here in Bristol and the South West.