STEERING COMMITTEE

Guiding Lights is grateful for the advice and support of its Steering Committee:

Tim Bevan

Tim Bevan is Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Working Title Films which he formed in 1984, joining forces with Eric Fellner in 1982. Co-chaired by them, Working Title Films is now Europe’s leading film production company, making movies that defy boundaries as well as demographics.

Working Title has made more than 90 films that have grossed over $4 billion worldwide. It’s films have won 6 Academy Awards (for Tim Robbins’ Dead Man Walking, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth and The Golden Age and Joe Wright’s Atonement, 26 BAFTA Awards and prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. Bevan and Fellner have been honoured with two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers; the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at the Orange British Academy Film Awards (2004) and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They have both been honoured with CBEs (Commanders of the British Empire).

Marc Boothe

(B3 Media)

Marc is the founder and MD of B3 Media - an award winning media arts agency - which has produced a broad slate of innovative projects across film, internet, mobile phone and visual arts. He was producer of the highly acclaimed feature film Bullet Boy directed by Saul Dibb, for which he was nominated Best British Producer by the London Film Critics Circle.

Previously, Marc worked as a Senior Executive at the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and at the Bank of England. Marc holds an MBA and is also the recipient of a NESTA Fellowship. Marc is currently developing his next feature film project The Amazing Labours Of Arthur Glass with writer-director Robert Samuels which has been commissioned by Film Four.

Natasha Galloway

(United Agents)

Natasha Galloway read English at Lincoln College Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1993 and practised as a criminal barrister for three years. She then went to Los Angeles and worked for Mike Newell at Dogstar Films. In 1998 she joined the film department at talent agency PFD (Peters, Fraser & Dunlop) where she represented Screenwriters, Directors and Producers.

She left in October 2007 to start United Agents with her colleagues. She is co-head of the film department. Her clients include Steve Knight and Kevin Macdonald.

Dan MacRae

(Optimum Releasing)

Dan MacRae is the Head of Development at Optimum Releasing. The company is currently exploring the remake potential of the many thousands of titles from its back catalogue and that of its parent company Studio Canal. Previously he was a Development Executive at Working Title Films and prior to that the Deputy Head of the Development Fund at the UKFilm Council. In the distant past he worked across a range of film activities in Scotland from repertory cinema programming to running a host of screenwriter and producer training events.

Janine Marmot

(Skillset)

Producer Janine Marmot has won many awards including a BAFTA and BIFA. She has run the independent production company Hot Property Films for the past ten years where she has developed a slate of feature films with partners including FilmFour and the UK Film Council. Projects in development include Niall Griffiths’ Kelly + Victor, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman, Simon Pummell’s gangster film Slow Motion Explosion, and William Gibson’s Dogfight. Her award winning credits include a BAFTA and BIFFA for Bodysong, Nichola Bruce’s I Could Read the Sky and the Quay Brothers’ Institute Benjamenta. She has been a visiting tutor at the London Film School and last year ran a workshop in London with Palme d’Or winning director Abbas Kiarostami.

Nadine Marsh-Edwards

(Shimmer Productions)

Nadine is a founding director of Shimmer Productions and was until recently at Leopard films, where she Executive Produced The Grey Man and co-developed An Englishman in New York, which continues the story of Quentin Crisp The Naked Civil Servant. Before that she spent several years at BBC Scotland, where she oversaw the development and production of over forty hours of prime time drama including: Sea of Souls, 2000 Acres of Sky and Tinsel Town. Nadine has also worked in South Africa, where she co-produced the film Hijack Stories and Exec Produced the South African series of Short and Curlies for Channel Four. Nadine produced the feature films Bhaji on the Beach and Young Soul Rebels as well as numerous award winning short films. Nadine is passionate in her promotion of the UK film and television industry and has been associated with various organisations-she is currently a board member of Film London and was recently the consultant for Breakout, which was a year long training scheme for experienced BME writers.

Shawn Slovo

In 1987, her first screenplay and first film, A World Apart, directed by Chris Menges, won the Jury Prize, and the Ecumenical and Best Actress Awards at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and the 1988 BAFTA Best Original Screenplay Award. Her adaptation for Working Title/Universal of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin was directed by John Madden in 2000. Catch A Fire, an original screenplay for Working Title Films, directed by Phillip Noyce, was released by Focus Features in 2007.

She is currently adapting Bobby Fischer Goes to War, for Working Title Films/Company Pictures, with director Kevin Macdonald, and The Dangerous Husband, for Working Title Films, with director John Crowley.

David Thompson

(Origin Pictures)

David Thompson began his career at the BBC as a documentary maker. He began producing drama while working for the BBC’s Everyman documentary series, where he produced the original Shadowlands, which won the British Academy Award for Best Drama and an International Emmy. Subsequent productions included the British Academy Award winning Safe, directed by Antonia Bird, Alan Clarke’s The Firm and Road.

He was appointed Head of BBC Films in May 1997, overseeing a slate of films for cinema and television. Past BBC Films productions include the acclaimed Mrs Brown starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly; Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot (BBC Films’ most successful film to date, which has taken some $100m worldwide, won three major British Academy Film Awards and was nominated for three Academy Awards); Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar; Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort and My Summer of Love; Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in Stephen Frears’ Mrs Henderson Presents; Confetti, featuring a host of Britain's leading comedic talent; The History Boys, adapted from Alan Bennett's award-winning stage play; the Cannes prize winner Red Road, Andrea Arnold’s first feature and the Oscar nominated Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, directed by Richard Eyre.

Recent releases include David Cronenberg’s BAFTA nominated thriller, Eastern Promises, staring Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen which opened the 2007 London Film Festival; The Other Boleyn Girl, adapted by Oscar-nominated writer Peter Morgan, starring Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Eric Bana and directed by first time feature director Justin Chadwick.

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The Guiding Lights management team and Steering Committee are advised by Bertie Ross of BHR Consulting & Associates