Peninsula Producers Network 2023
BFI NETWORK South West has partnered with Screen Cornwall and Exeter Phoenix for another year to bring a second iteration of the Peninsula Producers Network to talent in the region.
New and emerging producers in Cornwall and Devon have been invited to join workshops, events, and a peer network centred on skills development. The group will receive support and expert guidance, in a series of three events held both online and in person and that will hear from some of the top producers in the region, drawing upon the expert advice of producers including Kate Byers and Linn Waite of Early Day Films (BAIT), Denzil Monk of Bosena (ENYS MEN) and Bex Rose (THE PISS WITCH). The final session will be an in-person event at the Two Short Nights Film Festival at Exeter Phoenix in February.
Rachel Clear Burton - Cornwall
Rachel is an aspiring film producer, with a passion for telling unique, meaningful and relevant stories through both narrative and documentary. Believing that film is the most easily accessible way to learn and be inspired, she hopes that her films will encourage social change both through the narrative and through her approach to creating a diverse, equal and happy filmmaking environment. Following her Film degree at Falmouth University, Rachel is now working in the film industry, most recently as Production Coordinator on BBC/BFI feature Knockers and USA feature documentary Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge and is producing her own short films, one of which has been selected for BFI Future Film Festival 2023.
Nick Winchester - Cornwall
Nick is a freelance writer, video producer and editor, who has worked across journalism, documentary, music video and corporate content. He began his career interning and working for various news outlets in London, and later as a reporter along the US-Mexico border and Lebanon, so is most comfortable with telling strong and difficult stories. He then spent some time in distribution, managing short docs from independent filmmakers and international broadcasters, including Al Jazeera, ABC Australia and PBS NewsHour. Nick also works on music promos and live shows, which have been broadcast by KEXP, CBS This Morning and Amazon Music UK. And, as a producer for Yahoo, he has created marketing comms content and product campaign commercials. He also freelances as an editor for Beagle Media, working on corporate and TV sizzle projects.
Henry Simmons - Cornwall
Henry has worked in the Film and TV industry in Cornwall for several years, having been the Location Manager on a variety of dramas based locally. His location management work includes Doc Martin series 10 (Buffalo Pictures,) the feature film Into The Deep (Teashop Productions) and the BBC feature Knockers (BBC/BFI.)
Henry is interested in the stories we tell about ourselves and the land we inhabit.
Hugo de Rijke - Cornwall
Hugo de Rijke is Associate Professor in Law at Plymouth University and a practising Barrister at Clerksroom Chambers, Taunton. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Plymouth Law Review journal, ex-Chair and Committee Member of the Association of Law Teachers, and is on the Editorial Board of the Law Teacher journal.
At university, Hugo has taught Contract Law, English Legal System, Advocacy and Negotiation, and an elective module entitled Law, Literature and Film. He has a specialist interest in legal pedagogy and in the relationship between law and film.
In 2020 Hugo had an idea to make a series of short film dramatisations, based on famous landmark cases that established leading precedents in English common law. Hugo produced two short films entitled, “Mrs Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co.” (2021) and “The Strange Case of the Snail in a Bottle” (2022).
Ashish Ghadiali - Devon
Ashish Ghadiali is a writer, filmmaker and activist based in South Devon. He was director of the BIFA-nominated 2016 feature documentary, The Confession, funded by the BFI, BBC Storyville, Creative England and Shoebox Films, and co-writer of the BIFA-winning 2016 short film, Jacked, financed by Film London. He was also the founding director of the Freedom Theatre Film Unit in Jenin Refugee Camp in 2013, where he produced short documentaries including Journey of a Freedom Fighter and The Racer. Directing credits include Encounter, a 2009 short film set in Mumbai and co-written and starring Anurag Kashyap (Dev D, Gangs of Wasseypur) and Nimrat Kaur (The Lunchbox), and Breaking Out in Bradford, a short documentary for Idris Elba’s Green Door Productions as part of the Idris Takeover of BBC3 in 2017. As screenwriter, he was part of the BBC Writers Room TV development programme in 2019 and he has developed TV drama projects for Riz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films, Michael’s Fassbender’s DMC Films, BBC Studios, ITV Studios, House Productions & Kudos. As writer/director, he currently has a short film and feature package in development with BBC Films and he’s currently working on his first artist film commission, funded by the BFI, to bring material from the South-West Film and TV Archive to the Big Screen at the Box in Plymouth in Spring 2023. He is a co-founder and co-director of the new community interest company, Radical Ecology, launched in July 2022, which supports work across research, policy and the arts to promote environmental justice.
Léonie Hampton - Devon
Léonie Hampton is part of Still Moving an artist collective that is process-oriented. Through collaboration and embedded research, they remain open to the possibility that they will come into contact with what they do not already know, or may have forgotten. They are intrigued by how interactions with other epistemologies infect and influence one another and offer up new possibilities and ways of being that nurture forms of living. Founded by three artists, Laura Hopes, Martin Hampton and Léonie Hampton, who met when they were 13, they live in Devon, UK. Inspired by the artist Louise Bourgeois who said ‘It is not about the medium, it is about what you are trying to say’, their work emerges in diverse forms, including sculpture, film, photography, performance, installation, music, the spoken and printed word.
Léonie has an internationally acclaimed art practice. She studied Art history, specialising in contemporary European, American and Japanese art, and is a part-time AL Associate lecturer in photography at LCC London.
