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Senior Management Team:

Caroline NorburyCaroline Norbury, Chief Executive
0117 952 9982
Caroline has been South West Screen's Chief Executive since the agency's launch in 2001 and has extensive experience of the media industry as a producer, director and commissioning executive. Prior to the establishment of South West Screen Caroline ran First Take Films, an agency dedicated to developing new talent based at Anglia Television. Caroline is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of BAFTA and was recently awarded an MA in Cultural Leadership from City University, London.



Mehjabeen PriceMehjabeen Price, Director of Finance and Operations
0117 952 9975
Mehjabeen joined South West Screen as Director of Finance and Operations in November 2005. She started her career at First Women Bank in Pakistan in 1995 and was awarded a scholarship from the Bank of England to complete an MBA at the University of Exeter in 1999-2000. Mehjabeen has also worked at a private international trading business in London, and as UK Director for Stakeholder Forum, an international environment NGO, where she was responsible for the organisation's finance and operations as well as its national policy and programme activities on environmental issues.

 

 


Sheerene AmerShereene Amer, Finance Manager
0117 933 8927
Shereene comes from a varied background, Graduating from UWE with a BA (Hons) Ceramics. Having worked in corporate banking and the private sector, she then moved on to work in the not-for-profit sector, as an advisor to co-operative businesses and became accredited as a social enterprise advisor. For six years Shereene has been a member of the Cube Cinema, an independent Arts Centre based in Bristol, and was formerly responsible for the financial management, as well as being a director of the organisation.


Melissa Blackburn, Project Manager, iFeatures
0117 952 9974
Melissa is iFeatures’ Project Manager. Melissa has spent over 10 years working in documentary filmmaking in London and Bristol, as a freelance Assistant Producer and later Director. She has worked with the BBC, Testimony Films, Quickfire Media and Touch Productions, and specialises in oral history.


Johanna BolhovenJohanna Bolhoven, International Trade Advisor
0117 952 9973
Johanna first joined South West Screen in September 2005 as Business & Skills Development Manager, responsible for developing and managing the agency’s Business & Media Skills Development programmes. After a short break, Johanna has rejoined South West Screen as International Trade Advisor, responsible for the development and delivery of a programme of international trade activity in the region.


Sas BonserSas Bonser, Project Manager
0117 952 9978
Sas has worked in TV for over 15 years.  She joined South West Screen in 2007 to run the ‘First Post’ scheme for post production runners.  She is currently running the Skillset funded ‘Second Post’ scheme for new editors, as well as being the regional coordinator for Mediabox and overseeing training for teachers embarking on the new Creative and Media Diplomas.  She worked in production for independents such as Tigress Productions and Wall to Wall Television.  She studied sound at the NFTS, and was originally a facilities trainee at ITN.


Emma ChappelEmma Chappel, Communications and Information Manager
0117 952 9971
Emma has been a journalist for the past 9 years, starting her career as a reporter and presenter on Bloomberg radio. She moved to the BBC in 2004 to become a producer of business news for Radio Four and Radio Five Live and was the editor of Five Live's Wake Up to Money in 2006. Emma moved to Bristol in 2007 and worked for the Bristol Evening Post and the media agency, Medavia, before leaving to build up a freelance portfolio as a journalist, media trainer and PR consultant. She currently works 3 days a week.


Fiona FrancombeFiona Francombe, Production Services Manager
0117 952 9983
Fiona joined South West Screen as Filming and Locations Co-ordinator in August 2007, having spent over 17 years in the television industry. She was promoted to Production Services Manager in January 2009.  She started her career in theatre stage-management before moving into television, and joined the BBC as a Floor Assistant, working in the eight studios at Television Centre in London before transferring into the BBC Drama Department. In 1993 Fiona was allocated to Casualty as Location Manager in Bristol. She left the BBC to go freelance shortly afterwards and for 14 years based a very successful Location Managing career in the South West region from Bristol. Credits include numerous episodes of Casualty, I Saw You, Bertie & Elizabeth, Teachers 1, Servants, Afterlife 1 & 2, Persuasion and immediately before joining South West Screen she was responsible for setting-up the BBC series Lark Rise to Candleford which is entirely filmed in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.


Hannah Green, Development Coordinator
0117 952 9980
Hannah joined South West Screen as Development coordinator in January 2007. Hannah has a background in television production working with some of the South West's top production companies including Aardman Animations, Icon Films and Touch Productions. Hannah is responsible for delivering the Business & Skills Development programme at South West Screen.

Lisa Howe, Project Manager
0117 952 9984
Lisa has worked freelance with us since 2003 devising and delivering skills development programmes. An established Interactive Media Producer, her career also covers stills photography and video, bringing over 20 years of production experience to the team. Having transferred her skills to the interactive sector in 1993, Lisa worked her way up to production management roles with two major studios, including Peter Gabriel’s Real World. She has produced interactive programs for a range of blue-chip commercial clients and worked in computer games publishing. Lisa also works with Skillset Careers as New Media and Photo Imaging Advisor.


Sue LionSue Lion, Project Manager
0117 933 8920
Sue joined South West Screen in 2007 from a background in film and television. During her four years as Managing Director of the Encounters International Short Film Festival, Sue was instrumental in taking Encounters into the top three short film festivals in Europe and making it the largest in the UK.  Prior to this, she worked in London for a year as a production manager of Parthenon Entertainment which produces and distributes factual tv programmes worldwide, and was 10 years at Wildscreen, the world’s biggest festival of wildlife film and television. Sue has also been the co-ordinator of the European Union’s Prix Niki competition for women film-makers, held in Amsterdam, Lisbon and Thessaloniki, and she has organised the World Congress of Science Producers in London. Her duties as a Project Manager at South West Screen include supporting the Programme and Development teams to ensure successful delivery of all our programmes and projects where her experience of working to strict budgets and tight schedules will certainly prove useful.


Sarah-Jane MeredithSarah-Jane Meredith, Head of Creative and Audience Development
0117 952 9981
Sarah-Jane's responsibilities include devising and implementing strategies for developing audiences; developing the infrastructure for the audio visual archives sector; and initiatives aimed at developing creative people in the region through feature length, TV and short film schemes ranging from short film production (90 seconds +) and artists' film and video, to bespoke feature length script development schemes. Sarah-Jane also manages South West Screen's Lottery programme. Sarah-Jane was previously Projects Manager at South West Media Development Agency, an organisation which merged with others to form South West Screen. Prior to that, she worked at Arnolfini and at Arts Council England (formerly Arts Council of Great Britain).


Chris MollChris Moll, Executive Producer
0117 933 8921
Chris is iFeatures’ Executive Producer. He’s the driving force behind the initiative and was also the architect of last year’s Digital Departures micro- budget scheme in Liverpool. His many production credits include the recent feature films Sparkle and Grow Your Own, the Cannes smash Terence Davies' Of Time and The City which was produced with BBC Films under the innovative Digital Departures initiative, and the forthcoming Nowhere Boy. Previously, Chris spent 15 years as an independent producer, initially with Aardman, for whom he produced The Wrong Trousers and latterly with his own companies Hellzapoppin Pictures and Harvest Films.


Dan ObiDan Obi, Community Manager and Website Editor
0117 952 9977
Having worked in digital television and digital media for over 10 years, Dan has developed an in-depth understanding of the digital realm. Working for the likes of Enable, Rapture TV, Brann, TMP Worldwide, BBC, AXA and Zurich Financial Services, Dan has amassed a diverse spectrum of digital, online and television experience. His credits include Trainspotters, Scratch TV, Flog it!, I can't stop...,Inside Out, and Soul Deep.


Joe WheatlyJoe Wheatley, Production Liaison Assistant
0117 952 9979
Joe has joined South West Screen as Production Liaison Assistant from Company Pictures where he worked in a variety of roles; most recently as Production Assistant. Joe handles the day-to-day location and filming enquiries and oversees the Locations Database as well as the Production Guide.

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