Team

George's leadership of the team reflects the fact that

our work is not only borne of enormous

artistic skill and passion, but also of targeted

commercial excellence using agile and lean business principles. 

He is one of the industry's most successful leaders in identifying and backing world-class scripted content. He launched iconic shows such as Luther, Black Mirror, Criminal Justice and Top Boy. At Anton Entertainment's innovative representation agency Beibook, he partnered on multiple high - profile projects from producers such as Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End of the F***ing World), Hartswood Films (Sherlock, Douglas is Cancelled, Inside Man) and Mammoth Screen (Poldark, The Serpent, Grime Kids). He also nurtured a strong working relationship with talent such as Karl Gajdusek, (acclaimed writer and Stranger Things showrunner) and writer Neil McKay (The Reckoning, Four Lives).

Furthermore, his talents as a both a buyer and seller

set us in incredibly good stead with distributors,

agents and audiences. George has led several large

scale businesses, and is also an experienced commercial strategist and financial planner. Whilst at Channel 4 he was directly responsible for the £600m+ content budget and oversaw programme investment and international acquisitions. He successfully negotiated deals securing titles such as Damian Lewis' drama Homeland and Big Bang Theory.

At BBC Studios he was responsible for the company's

international pay - tv scripted and factual channel's

multi-million pound budgets and commissioning strategy.

Amanda is a highly skilled model-maker and costume maker with a storied 25-year career in the Film and TV industry.

She has worked on many iconic films including Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox; Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs and Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar and BAFTA-winner Pinocchio.

 She has also created numerous commercials and beloved children’s TV programmes, including The Clangers.

Most recently, she crafted a costume for a marionette featured in a short film by the luxury fashion brand Loewe.
Amanda’s exceptional talent in intricate pattern cutting has also led to commissions for bespoke plush toys. One of these designs has been mass-produced for The Herdy Company in the Lake District, while another is currently in production.

Amanda is also an exceptional teacher, and enjoys sharing her passion and extensive knowledge of costume and puppet-making through talks and masterclasses at universities and theatres across the UK.

She is also a visiting tutor at the legendary Aardman Animation.

Neil Patrick is one of Wales' most successful business innovators and strategists. In 2002 he authored the £37m business plan for the UK’s largest ever venture capital–backed start-up. He has co-founded three financial firms, two of which achieved exit offers of over £275m within five years.

He is recognised as a global thought-leader on careers, and is the co-author of the acclaimed bestseller Careermageddon: Cracking the 21st Century Career Code.

He has been a visiting lecturer in Corporate Strategy, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship on Cardiff University’s MBA programme, and his expertise spans product design, market positioning, brand development, capital raising, agile leadership, CRM and IT infrastructure, analytics, and commercial performance.

He serves as a non-executive director and advisor to multiple public and private sector organisations, supporting boards and leadership teams on strategic planning, innovation, and financial oversight, and sits on multiple audit, risk, and finance committees.

Neil is also the founder of several initiatives aimed at boosting business growth and economic empowerment in Wales. He sits on the board of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, contributing to healthcare governance and financial strategy.

Dan is an award-winning writer, director, novelist and

playwright with a background in languages and

cosmology.

He began his career in BBC Radio 5 as a

writer/performer, moving on to Radio 1 and Radio 4.

He then began to write and direct at BBC Light

Entertainment where he produced Sean Lock's first

series and directed the BBC adaptation of Dante's

Inferno. He also devised and taught the BBC Production Syllabus to new producers.

He won the SWPA Gold Award for Drama

after creating the world's first webcast Death Comes

to Time, featuring John Sessions, Kevin Eldon and

Jon Culshaw. He also won a Parsec Award for

pioneering audio movie series The Minister of Chance.

His absurdist play A Joke, which he wrote and

directed, was a sellout success at the Edinburgh

Fringe, with The Guardian calling it "a masterpiece". 

He has directed several short films a n d

commercials, and has been a screenwriting and

production tutor at BBC TV.

Dan's creative reputation enables him t o attract

the world's greatest actors, cinematographers and

designers, with actor Stephen Fry (Blackadder, The

Morning Show) commenting " his writing and

production are exquisite". Sylvester McCoy (The

Hobbit, Doctor Who), Robert Picardo (Star Trek:

Voyager), Jenny Agutter (Captain America: The

Winter Solider, Call the Midwife) and Philip Glenister

are among the array of on-screen talent Dan has

worked with.

One of the UK's most prolific independent film

producers, Michael's award-winning work includes

WWII drama Chosen starring Harvey Keitel, critically

acclaimed sailing biopic Crowhurst (Studio Canal),

controversial action/horror The Seasoning House

(Sean Pertwee); migrant thriller Outlanders, cult

favourite Vampire Diary and black comedy Lava with

Tom Bell. His urban drama Sugarhouse (Ashley

Walters) and romcom Loop (Susannah York) both

starred Andy Serkis. Recent films include The Ballad

of Billy McCrae (David Hayman); comedy farce

Sideshow (Tony Head and Les Dennis); gothic thriller

Fear the Invisible Man and WW l supernatural

romance Can You Hear Me? (James Cosmo and John

Standing). Upcoming projects include fantasy adventure Land of Legend (Rupert Everett, Emelia

Fox and Tamsin Greig) and cerebral thriller Jagged

Honeycomb - the last feature to shoot in Ukraine

before the war.

He is one of the youngeat ever producers of a major

BBC drama series, In a Land of Plenty, starring Helen

McCrory and Indira Varma. His factual work includes

Sundance competitor China's Wild West studying the

Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Kenyan-shot Turner Prize

installation Waiting for British artist Zaria Bhimji and

the Sky documentary Tibet Report studying Tibetan

refugees in Northern India where he interviewed the

14th Dalai Lama at his palace in Dharamshala.

His production company Sterling Pictures is a London

and Bristol based film development and production

outfit established in 1995 . Michael is a voting

member of BAFTA and the European Film Academy.