In Development: Producers Lab Cohort 2025.

We are excited to announce the eight filmmakers who represented the Midlands in the 2025 BFI NETWORK In Development Producers Lab. Our class of 2025 joined eight selected producers from the North for a weekend of intensive training in Nottingham, building skills to become a cohort of exciting emerging producers.

During this time, the filmmakers sharpened their production management skills, learned from exciting industry figures and expanded their filmmaking networks. The lab finished at Aesthetica Film Festival 2025, where the producers had the opportunity to experience the festival, engage in industry talks and network with Script Lab participants from both Midlands and Northern cohorts.

BFI NETWORK In Development Producers Lab is a partnership between Film Hub Midlands, Film Hub North and BFI NETWORK.

The lab's Midlands cohort draws together Producers with a range of filmmaking and arts experience from across the region. We can't wait to see how their slates will develop and what projects we'll see from them next - but, in the meantime, we're proud to introduce the class of 2025.

She recently returned to the UK after studying and working across the arts and entertainment industries in Chicago and New York as a Sutton Trust–Fulbright Scholar. She is interested in dreams, mysteries, and one day joining what she believes is the most important cinema canon: adaptations of classic literature set in high schools. 🏫

As a Script Supervisor, Grace has established herself as a trusted partner for directors, an indispensable on-set collaborator for cast, and a supportive presence for all departments. Proud to be included in the 2025 In Development: Producers Lab, she is excited to learn, collaborate, and accelerate her transition into producing.

Driven by a commitment to collaboration and a deep respect for writers’ and directors’ visions, Grace is dedicated to translating her script-to-screen expertise into bold, character-led films that resonate with audiences. She is skilled at combining editorial insight with hands-on production experience to align creative intentions with production realities. Inspired by stories that entertain while making an impact, Grace is determined to champion regional voices and build creative teams that bring bold, heartfelt, and culturally vital films to life.

She believes deeply in art’s power for creative rebellion.

Her work includes Freeze Frame – IsolaKing, a Metahuman-driven animated music video nominated for Best Music Video and Best Animation at the Forward Film & Television Festival 2025, and A Walk in the Park, a surreal Unreal Engine film that screened at Verve Poetry Festival, Flatpack Festival, and Fringe Arts Bath, touring eight venues across six cities.

She also created Hybrid Art Journal, a three-month hybrid zine with AR-triggered physical editions, and The Masses, a mass-participation poem project whose centrepiece film won a British Journal of Photography Edition365 Award.

particularly stories told from within the community and from the lens of lived experiences. 

With an extensive background in the film industry and arts sector, she has worked with and consulted for organisations including Sheffield Doc/Fest, The Writers Lab, Independent Cinema Office, Film Hub North, Unlimited, Slate/Eclipse and the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. She also produces youth-led filmmaking programmes in educational settings. 

As a disability activist, Mathy has been invited to speak in Parliament with Muscular Dystrophy UK, and has been featured on television, radio, national newspapers and online platforms such as HuffPost. In recognition of her dedication to championing diversity in creative industries, she has been recognised as a Trailblazer of the Future by Campaign Magazine.

Recently, he has collaborated with Seth Rogen's production company, Point Grey, on The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down and Kevin Hart's HartBeat on the horror flick Don't F**k with Ghost, as well as editing Pablo Trapero's & SONS based on the 2004 bestseller by David Gilbert and adapted for the screen by Oscar-Winner Sarah Polley

Over the past few years Thom has cut episodes of prime-time television for CBC and Vice, as well as programming for Channel 4, ITVX, Discovery+ and eOne. He has also edited feature films for Paramount+, Hallmark and Superchannel.

Thom has edited many of Canada’s most successful digital series, including the International Emmy-winning Guidestones, the Canadian Screen Award-winning Save Me, and Amanda Parris’s Revenge of the Black Best Friend, which was an official selection at the 2022 Canneseries competition.

She aims to bring stories exploring different perspectives of British culture and the Black-British experience from script to screen through character-driven storytelling and collaboration.

She has delivered UK-wide R&D and project management for the BFI Film Audience Network, has worked in partnership with organisations such as the British Council and BFI Southbank, and now works part-time as Innovation Director and Producer for ForMed Films – a BAFTA-winning animation studio making films for healthcare and social good. Also a multidisciplinary creative practitioner, she has composed for film and television and is currently finishing an AHRC-funded PhD in Place-based Poetry Film and Immersive Technologies.