Brian Gilbert (Director) began his career in films as an actor, before spending three years at the National Film and Television School, where his graduation film, "The Devotee", came to the attention of David Puttnam, who commissioned him to write and direct "Sharma And Beyond" for Channel Four's "First Love" series. In 1984, he directed his first theatrical feature, "The Frog Prince", also for Puttnam and this was followed by two very successful American studio features, "Vice Versa", starring Judge Reinhold and "Not Without My Daughter", starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina, which he also wrote. In 1994, he returned to the UK to direct the award-winning "Tom & Viv", starring Willem Dafoe as T.S. Eliot, Miranda Richardson as his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood and Rosemary Harris as her mother Rose, for producers Marc and Peter Samuelson.

Peter Samuelson (Producer), who is based in Los Angeles, served as production manager on "Return Of The Pink Panther" and seven other feature films. He then went on to produce feature films including "Revenge Of The Nerds" for 20 Century Fox, "A Man, A Women And A Bank" for Embassy and "Turk 182", also for Fox. He was co-founder of Interscope Communications, a leading US independent and served as its Executive Vice-President for six years. In 1990 he set up Samuelson Productions with his London-based brother, Marc Samuelson. The brothers have now made three feature films, "Tom & Viv", "Playmaker", "Wilde" and four documentaries, "Man, God And Africa", "Vicars", "The Babe Business" and "Ultimate Frisbee". "Tom & Viv" was nominated for two Oscars, as well as two BAFTA awards and several other awards. It also won the Hitchcock Prize at the Dinard Film Festival. Peter Samuelson is Co-Founder and International President of the Starlight Childrens Foundation and of the Starbright Paediatric Network which is chaired by Steven Spielberg.

Marc Samuelson (Producer), who is based in the UK, was previously director of the UK Association of Independent Producers and of the Edinburgh International Television Festival and Managing Director of Umbrella Films, producers of "White Mischief", "1984", "The Playboys", "Nanou" and "Hotel Du Paradis". In 1990 he set up Samuelson Productions with his Los Angeles-based brother Peter Samuelson. Several film and television projects are now complete, including the critically-acclaimed and Oscar-Nominated film "Tom & Viv", "Playmaker" and documentries "Man, God And Africa", "Vicars", "The Babe Business" and "Ultimate Frisbee". Marc Samuelson is chairing the principal panel of advisors to the UK's National Lottery on the Lottery's investments in film production.

Julian Mitchell (Writer), one of Britain's most successful television playwrights, divides his time between his homes in London and South Wales, where he is a member of the Welsh Arts Council and the Welsh Film Council. His television scripts include "Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill", "Hard Cheese", "Staying On", "The Good Soldier", "The Weather In The Streets", "Vincent And Theo", "Survival Of The Fittest", "Blood Money" and numerous original teleplays in the "Inspector Morse" series. His first feature screenplay was based on his own original stage play "Another Country" and this year saw the release of "August", his Welsh adaptation of "Uncle Vanya", directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins.

Sarah Bird (Casting Director) has cast West End theatre productions, short and feature films and television films and series such as "Medics", "Minder", "Inspector Morse", "Gallowglass", "The Chief", "Wycliffe", "The Buccaneers", "Pie In The Sky", "Hetty Wainthrop Investigates" and "Rhodes". For the cinema, she has cast such films as Claude Pinoteau's "La neige et le feu", Nick Ward's "Dakota Road", Chris Menges' "Second Best", Nancy Meckler's "Sister My Sister" and David Drury's "Hostile Waters".

Michael Bradsell (Editor) studied professional photography and worked on industrial and documentary films, learning camerawork, editing, scriptwriting and directing before joining the BBC and becoming an editor, working on such television classics as Ken Russell's "ISADORA", Peter Watkins' "The War Game" and "Culoden" and Richard Cawston's "The Royal Family". Since becoming a freelance film editor in 1968, his credits include Ken Russell's "Women In Love", "The Music Lovers" and "The Devils", Michael Apted's "Stardust", Terry Gilliam's "Jabberwocky", Ridley Scott's "The Duellist", Alan Clarke's "Scum", Bill Forsyth's "Local Hero", Pat O'Connor's "Cal", David Drury's "Defence Of The Realm", Julian Temple's "Absolute Beginners", Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V" and, most recently, Mark Peploe's "Victory".

Maria Djurkovic (Production Designer) was educated at Oxford University and won a scholarship in Theatre Design to the Riverside Theatre. As a set and costume designer, she has worked on a variety of theatre, opera and ballet productions at major theatres across the UK, including the Oxford Playhouse and the Royal Opera House. She has designed numerous familiar commercials and her work in television design includes "Whistle Test", "Playschool", "The Singing Detective", "Spender", "Capital City" and "Inspector Morse". She was set dresser on Clive Donner's "Stealing Heaven" and Michael Caton Jones' "Scandal", before becoming production designer on Benjamin Ross's "Young Poisoner's Handbook" and Curtis Radclyffe's "Sweet Angel Mine".

Nic Ede (Costume Designer) has designed the costumes for television series such as "The Borrowers", "Seaforth" and "Band Of Gold" and started in feature films as a costume assistant on "Fred Zinnemann's "Julia" and Warren Beatty's "Reds" and as wardrobe supervisor on Terry Jones' "Life Of Brian", Derek Jarman's "The Tempest" and Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi". As costume designer, his films include Nicolas Roeg's "Castaway", Bernard Rose's "Paperhouse", Chris Menges' "A World Apart" and "Second Best", Charles Sturridge's "A Foreign Field" and John Henderson's "Loch Ness". In 1990 he designed the costumes for Brian Gilbert's film "Not Without My Daughter".

Martin Fuhrer (Director of Photography) was born in Switzerland and studied at Britain's National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. The award-winning cinematographer has worked on a number of European feature films and television productions, including the "Eurocops" series. His first British feature was Connie Templeman's Anglo-French "Nanou" in 1985, since when he has worked on Harry Hook's "Lord Of The Flies", Fraser Heston's "City Slickers II", for which he photographed the Bull Run sequence, Domenique Girard's "Omen IV", Harry Hook's "The Last Of His Tribe" (for which Fuhrer won the 1992 Cable Ace Award for Best Cinematography) and "Tom & Viv", his previous collaboration with director Brian Gilbert and producers Marc and Peter Samuelson. Most recently he was director of photography for John Schlesinger on "Sweeney Todd".

Jim Greenhorn (Sound Mixer) has worked on television series, such as "South Of The Border", "Between The Lines", "If You See God, Tell Him", "Dangerous Lady" and the recent "Emma" and "Nostromo". He has also recorded the sound for several films which made the transition between the small and large screen, including Anthony Minghella's "Truly, Madly, Deeply", David Jones' "The Trial", Antonia Bird's "Safe", Christopher Morahan's "The Bullion Boys", Nicolas Roeg's "Two Deaths" and John Schlesinger's "Cold Comfort Farm". His recent cinema films include Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth", David Evans' "Fever Pitch " and Antonia Bird's "Face".

Nick O'Hagan (Line Producer) has worked in various production capacities in film and television. As production co-ordinator, he worked on James Ivory's "Howard's End", the television dramas "The Man Who Cried" and "An Exchange Of Fire" and on the series "Press Gang" and "Class Act". He was associate producer of the film "Solitaire For Two", production manager on the television series "She's Out" and production supervisor on Hetty Macdonald's critically-praised film "Beautiful Thing". Most recently, he acted as line producer on David Evans' film of Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch".

Debbie Wiseman (Composer) has composed over 70 scores for film and television including "Tom & Viv", "Haunted", "The Dying Of The Light", "The Missing Postman", "The Good Guys", "The Upper Hand", "Female Perversions", "A Week In Politics", "Children's Hospital", "The Churchills", "The People's "Century", "Little Napoleans", "Death Of Yugoslavia", "Shrinks", "It Might Be You", "Making Babies" and "Loved By You". Debbie has won and been nominated for numerous awards including Winner of Theme Music of the Year for "The Good Guys" in the 1993 Television & Radio Industry Club Awards, and Winner of Best Original Theme Music 1991 for "Shrinks" in the Silents to Satellite Awards. Debbie was nominated for the Rank Film Laboratories Award for Creative Originality in The Carlton Television Women in Film Awards 1994 and nominated for Best Commissioned Score in the 1995 Ivor Novello Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards for "Death Of Yugoslavia".