This forum facilitates on-going discussions amongst the Guiding Lights mentees. It allows the mentees to discuss all aspects of the programme, share advice, support and to continue to form good working relationships. Guests from various industry fields are also invited to join the forum to answer questions from the mentees.

Guests have included:

Keith Evans is one of the two founding directors of Baker Street Media Finance, one of the longest established UK film finance production partnerships. Keith started out as a Chartered Accountant and set up his own practice in the late 70s specialising in the Music Industry. In the mid 80's he pioneered "Enterprise Zone Trusts", real-estate partnerships providing geared income tax relief to UK residents. Foremost amongst those products was Canary Wharf in London's Docklands and Exchange Quay in Manchester. Other incentives have included housing, shipping, small business start-ups generally and, more recently a involvement in the TV and film sector of the entertainment business when the UK Government introduced the so-called "section 48" initiative in 1997 from which Baker Street emerged.
Films that Baker Street Media Finance have been involved with include: Anita & Me, I Capture the Castle, Ladies In Lavender, Green Street, My Summer of Love, Bloody Sunday and Saving Grace.

Ruth Caleb became the BBC's first female head of drama when she was appointed Head of BBC Wales Drama in the early 1990s . After a period as acting Head of Drama Group, BBC TV, Ruth returned to her former role of producing and is currently producing Dominic Savage’s latest film LONDON. Ruth’s recent production credits include the award-winning television dramas, Tomorrow La Scala! and Out of Control; the BAFTA winning Care; the BBC1 series Judge John Deed; When I was 12; Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in my Heart; and the cinema films LAST RESORT, BULLET BOY, LOVE + HATE and SHOOTING DOGS.

Juliette Towhidi started her career as a Reuters journalist before moving into script editing and development, working for, amongst others, director Roman Polanski and the Paris-based Studio Canal Plus. Her first original feature writing commission was for Calendar Girls, an idea she initiated with producers Harbour Pictures. Juliette is currently developing various feature films, including dark thriller 'Arizona' and an adaptation of the coming of age novel 'Hide and Seek', by Clare Sambrook, both for BBC Films. She is also writing 'The Ice Palace'. set in Iran on the eve of the 1979 revolution, and is developing various ideas for television.

Robert Jones has worked as a producer, distributor, acquisitions executive, and funder of feature films for almost 25 years. In 2005, after completing a four-year term running the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund, he became president of Material Entertainment, a joint venture between New Line Cinema and UK distributor Entertainment. Material will produce up to four features per year for worldwide distribution through the joint venture partners.

Penny Nagle started life in the music industry as an IP lawyer and migrated across to film and new media as a producer and distributor. Most recently she has set up a joint venture with Shooting Peoeple called WORD OF MOUTH FILMS, a distrubution company committed to distributing films you want to tell your friends about - and nurturing new filmmaker talent.