Short Film Development Programme: Midlands participants.

Bobby is a producer of digital projects and live performance and a handful of animated film shorts. Bobby’s a developing writer and looking forward to crafting his first live action script for short film.

Writer and Art Director Ciara's work celebrates and explores matters of gender fluidity, womanhood, and identity through strange and surreal narratives. 

Charles is a Writer and Assistant Director whose most recent short script 'A Glass House' has received strong feedback from international writing competitions.

Darryl is an actor and producer, best known for his role as Nick, in the BBC Two and HBO Max series Trigonometry. Alongside acting, he is a development producer at Fremantle and is now moving into writing. He recently developed and exec produced the Campaign Media Publishing awarded Podcast of The Year 2020, 'This Is Spoke'.

Musician and Writer James credits his MA in Film and Television for inspiring him to start writing stories and making short films based around the atmospheres that he explores through his music. James was recently commissioned as part of BBC Arts' New Creatives scheme to write horror-themed radio drama, 'No Place Like Home'. 

Michael started his filmmaking career by working as an intern at the production company Soup Factory, gaining valuable experience in music videos and commercials. Upon graduating from university, and winning an RTS Student award for his film 'Anoesis', he co-founded the production company Them Pesky Kids. 

In 2017, Mike founded FlipYou Comedy- a film-making collective creating comedy shorts that have screened internationally. Mike is also a recent graduate of the University of Derby where he gained a Dean's Award in 2019.

Shameela is a graduate of the National Film & Television School’s MA Screenwriting, and a recent participant of Birmingham Rep’s Write away, and Belgrade Theatre and Tamasha’s Critical Mass playwriting programme. Shameela has assisted and directed on several theatre projects and is interested in exploring the human condition and telling stories with a social focus.

Shyam is a recent graduate from the NFTS Screenwriting MA and is now developing shorts and features. His writing focus is drama which explores contemporary social themes from a historical perspective.

Sophie is a graduate from Transforming Arts Institute in Madrid, Spain, studying Film Directing & New Media. Her creative focus is centred on telling stories with foundations in social-political topics, including freedom of movement and miscarriage.

Thomas is a filmmaker, rapper and illustrator whose work has screened in some of the UK's leading independent cinemas and Birmingham based BAFTA qualifying festival Flatpack. Most recently Thomas has been working as a Camera Assistant on 'BBC Doctors' a slate of 'BBC/ACE - New Creatives' films.