I an an inde producer, consultant and trainer, including co-producer and executive producer roles. My background is in business and legal affairs, specialising in developing professional relationships and creative rights. My focus is on independent dramas, documentaries and international co-productions.

I am a qualified solicitor and holding a Post Graduate Diploma in international copyright law at Kings College London.

I am a mentor for KCL and ScreenSkills, and a ScreenSkills evaluator to assess and accredit Higher Education training courses, for the screen industries.

A voting member of BAFTA and I sit on PACT's film policy working group.

In 2023 I qualified with a Screenskills Level 3 Award in Education + Training. Enabling me to create safe supportive and inclusive teaching and learning environments for everyone. It’s one of the UK's leading education qualifications, accredited for the adult education sector.

More recently I became a 'mental health instructor', qualified to teach others become qualified mental health first aiders.

1. Executive producer, business and legal affairs

   Planispheres · Mar 2003 - Present

1. Introduction to mental health awareness at work

   ScreenSkills Learning · Jun 2023

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. ScreenSkills Select Congress 2023

   ScreenSkills · Mar 2023

   ScreenSkills Funded

3. Introduction to mental health awareness at work

   ScreenSkills Learning · Dec 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

4. IR35 changes: what you need to know

   The Production Guild · Feb 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

5. Mentoring for mentors

   ScreenSkills Learning · Dec 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

6. Going back into production: Wiggin LLP examine the legal considerations for film and HETV post-lockdown

   ScreenSkills · Aug 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

7. Effective practice in on-line learning

   ScreenSkills · Nov 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

8. Supporting trainees for whom English is a second or other language

   ScreenSkills · Nov 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

9. Advanced Legal Professional Training Advanced Clearing Rights, international strategies. • Attended the prestigious institute with senior executives from NBC Universal, Sony, HBO, Red Bull, Zentropa and broadcasters across Europe

   Erich Pommer Institute, Berlin. - Scholarship supported by Creative Europe. Awarded Creative Skillset International Film Bursary. · Aug 2014 - Aug 2014

10. Equity investment, leadership & management training Understanding equity investment criteria: Deal terms of business angels, venture capitalists, gap finance & post-production investors.

    Peacefulfish ‘Closing the Gap” at the Investitionsbank, Berlin. Creative Skillset leadership & management bursary · Nov 2014 - Nov 2014

11. Selected for the UKFC's & Creative Skillset's inaugural UK Producers Lab with international producers, sales agents, distributors as well as broadcasters and funding representatives active in international co-production. UK Producers Lab at the Berlinale Co-production Market

    UK Film Council and the Berlinale Co-production Market · Feb 2008 - Feb 2008

12. Approved as an industry facilitator for Creative Skillset’s Screen Academies training courses. NFTS: Training for Trainers - Invited to attend.

    National Film & Television School. · Nov 2005 - Nov 2005

13. Advanced Professional Training The EU's ‘Global Negotiation Workshop’ dedicated to the process of filmmaking, Athens.

    Creative Europe. - Scholarship supported by the Motion Picture Association, UIP, & Creative Europe. Awarded a Creative Skillset bursary · Aug 2004 - Aug 2004

14. Advanced Legal Training NFTS Legal & Business Affairs II - Film finance and bank discounting, gap finance, completion bonds. Contractual relationships, value of collateral, essential elements, distribution, talent & inter-party agreements, negative pick up agreements, minimum guarantees, the banks position, timetables and delivery. E&O insurance, force majeure, abandonment, allocation of revenues, recoupment, collection management.

    National Film and Television School. · Apr 2003 - Apr 2003

15. Post Graduate Diploma International copyright with an emphasis on UK, US, French and German creative rights.

    Kings College London · Nov 2002 - Oct 2003

• Introduction to mental health awareness at work

  Screenskills Learning
  Issued 18 Jun 2023

• Introduction to mental health awareness at work

  Screenskills Learning
  Issued 22 Dec 2021

• Mentoring for mentors

  Screenskills Learning
  Issued 10 Dec 2020