London Independent Film Festival

Matt Bochenski is founder and editor of the film magazine Little White Lies which was voted Best Designed Consumer Magazine at the 2008 Magazine Design and Journalism Awards. 

Actor/musician Tom Felton is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series.  Felton started filming in commercials when he was only 8, and in films at the age of ten, appearing in The Borrowers and Anna and the King.  He’s currently filming the last two Harry Potter films. 

Actress Kelly MacDonald’s impressive list of credits include Trainspotting, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Nanny McPhee, Choke,  the BBC dramas State of Play and The Girl In The Café for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006, and won an Emmy.  In 2007 Kelly was nominated for a BAFTA for her performance in No Country For Old Men

Rebecca O’Brien is an independent film producer with over 20 years of experience.  O’Brien has produced nine feature films directed by Ken Loach including Sweet Sixteen, My Name Is Joe, Land and Freedom and The Wind That Shakes The Barley, winner of the 2006 Palme d’Or at Cannes and last year’s Looking For Eric.   She and Ken Loach run the production company Sixteen Films; O’Brien is also a board member of the UK Film Council.

The award-winning cinematographer Dick Pope’s list of credits stretch from the big pop videos of the 1980s – Queen, Tina Turner, Clash, Police and more to feature films in the 90s and beyond.  He’s collaborated on nine films with director Mike Leigh including Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky and won the top prize at the International Festival of the Art of Cinematography for Vera Drake and Secrets and Lies.  More credits include Nicholas Nickleby, Swept From The Sea, and The Illusionist for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.  Recently he photographed Me and Orson Welles for Richard Linklater and It’s A Wonderful Afterlife for Gurinder Chadha.

The award winning writer/director/producer Simon Rumley is one of the UK’s leading independent filmmakers; his critically acclaimed trilogy -  Strong Language, The Truth Game and Club Le Monde – all theatrically released – were followed by the cult phenomenon The Living And The Dead which subsequently garnered 16 awards worldwide.  Simon recently premiered Red White & Blue, starring Noah Taylor, at Rotterdam and the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, where the slacker revenge movie was shot.  He’s just completed shooting Bitch, his segment of Little Deaths, a psycho sexual horror anthology based in London.

Gareth Unwin has just produced his first movie, the BAFTA nominated Exam, a thriller directed by Stuart Hazeldine which premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival.  Gareth’s credits as first assistant director include South West Nine, Club Le Monde, Butterfly Man and Behind Closed Doors. 

Film editor Joe Walker’s highly acclaimed TV and film credits include Tabloid starring John Hurt, the ITV blockbuster Zhivago starring Sam Neill and Keira Knightley, The Virgin Queen for Coky Giedroyc, The Escapist, The Devil’s Whore, Harry Brown with Michael Caine, Hunger, the highly acclaimed debut feature by Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen.  Joe is currently cutting the feature Brighton Rock, a reworking of the Graham Greene classic starring Sam Riley, John Hurt, and Helen Mirren.