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Producer: Kara Miller 
Associate Producers: 
Katie Segal and Dionne Walker Amponsah
Director of Photography: Colin Rogal
Screenwriter: Kara Miller 
Editor: Claire Dodgson, Rachel Tunnard, Anuree De Silva and Nick Reed Production Designer: Jonathan Taylor (Bafta Nominated) 
Sound Director & Sound Re-Recording Mixer:Matthew Gough A.M.P.S    (Bafta Nominated) 
Sound Editor: Colette Dahanne
Sound Re-Recording Mixer & Foley Editor: David Humphries A.M.P.S. C.A.S.
(Bafta Nominated)
 

 

PRODUCER and WRITER-DIRECTOR – Kara Miller (Arawak Films): 

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Winner of a Breakthrough Brits 2008 award award (the UK Film Council’s high end talent initiative that celebrates a new wave of British filmmaking talent who are on the cusp of mainstream success), Hitchcock Award, the Screen Nation ‘Best Emerging Talent’ award and shortlisted for the BBC’s New Filmmaker Award. 

Kara’s film directing credits include: Nobody The Great (2007 – Winner of Cinequest Film Festival’s Viewers’ Voice Audience Award for ‘Best Feature Film’); her award winning short films (Cheese Makes You Dream, Elephant Palm Tree and How to Make Friends) have sold to broadcasters such as HBO and the BBC and have screened at film festivals around the world including Sundance, Berlin and London. 

Kara’s writing credits include: Lolapalooza, a feature in development with Working Title Films; Boo! (22 episodes - BBC / Tell-Tale Productions) and Jim Jam & Sunny (20 episodes - ITV). 

Kara also has numerous writing credits in theatre and BBC Radio 4 – her most recent piece for theatre / Radio 4 Letting Yourself Go (White Open Spaces) ran for 3 weeks at the Soho Theatre, was broadcast in 2007 on Radio 4 (Woman’s Hour slot) and was nominated for a Southbank Show Award (Pentabus Theatre – White Open Spaces).

Current Projects 
Kara is currently developing two feature film projects: KILLER MILLER (a thriller set in Jamaica & USA) and BOOBS (a coming of age comedy drama).

 

 

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER – Katie Segal 

Katie Segal read maths and philosophy at Oxford University .  She is a graphic designer, an I.T. consultant and is the sub-editor of a lifestyle magazine.  Katie has coordinated several conferences and has extensive project management experience.

There’s nothing Katie likes better than solving a problem, making the impossible happen and being part of a project from inkling to blockbuster!

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER – Dionne Walker-Amponsah

Dionne Walker-Amponsah was born in Kingston , Jamaica  and came to  England in her late teens to study Arts Marketing at the University of the Arts, London .  She then completed a second degree in Mass Communication where she produced ‘Epping Forest ’, a short feature, as part of her final dissertation.  In 2002, Dionne Executive Produced ‘Oi Vote’, a cinema campaign to encourage young people to vote, featuring the garage boy band ‘More Fire Crew’. In the role of producer, Dionne enjoys juxtaposing her love of a good script with her coordinating skills to bring a project to life.

Dionne is also one of London's key borough Location Coordinators and is intricately involved with facilitating major feature film productions in the capital – past projects include: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’; ‘Harry Potter I’ and ‘Harry Potter II’. Dionne’s most recent projects include Anthony Minghella's ‘Breaking and Entering’, the Wachowski Brothers' ‘V for Vendetta’, ‘Basic Instinct II’ and ‘Notes of a Scandal’

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Colin Rogal

Colin Rogal’s many documentary credits for British and American Television include the BBC/Discovery multi-award winning ‘Death of Yugoslavia series, Channel Four’s ‘Murder Most Royal’, the BBC’s ‘Trouble At The Top’ and the current BBC series ‘The Battle for Britain’s Soul’. His work requires him to travel all over the world, probing the minds of presidents and prime-ministers, observing the lives of the very rich and the very poor, the evil and the worthy. His experience of drama-doc filming with among others ‘The Trouble with Love’ and ‘From Here To Paternity’ (both BBC), has allowed him to push the limitations of electronic cameras to create mood and intensity, and to give each film its own clear visual identity. His recent work on After 8’ (dir. Nick Reed), a drama short, and now Nobody The Great’ (dir. Kara Miller), his first full length drama feature illustrates his determination to keep blurring the lines between the different film disciplines. For more information visit www.rogal.org 

EDITOR - Claire Dodgson

Claire studied editing at the UK ’s National Film and Television School 1999 – 2001 and since graduating she has worked on numerous film and television projects (including ‘Corpse Bride’ - as assistant editor).  She is currently editor on the BBC television show ‘Charlie and Lola’.

EDITOR - Rachel Tunnard

Rachel studied film at Bristol University .  Her feature film editing credits include ‘Nobody The Great’ and Richard Jobson’s ‘Woman in Winter’.  She has also been assistant editor on numerous features including ‘Nina’s Heavenly Delights’. 

EDITOR - Anuree De Silva

Anuree started out on a short course at the National Film School at Beaconsfield before getting a work attachment on ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’. This led to more work on features and TV drama such as ‘Caravaggio’ with Derek Jarman ‘The life and death of Phillip Knight’ with Peter Kosminski, ‘When the wind blows’, ‘Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves’.

Anuree then started work on ‘Shallow Grave’ as an assistant before becoming assembly editor on ‘Trainspotting’ and ‘A life less ordinary’. She also worked with Stephen Frears on his western film ‘The Hi-Lo Country’.  Anuree became an editor in her own right and has worked on everything from corporates and commercials to TV dramas such as ‘Holby City’, ‘Single Voices’ and ‘Hearts and Bones’ to features such as ‘Fly Fishing’, ‘Cut Sleeve Boys’ and ‘Nobody the Great’. She is currently editing a feature called ‘Three’.

EDITOR - Nick Reed

Nick trained and worked as an actor, then went on to direct theatre, setting up his own venue The Park. As a writer, his credits include Eastenders (BBC), Byker Grove (Zenith North) and over 30 episodes of London Bridge ( Carlton ). He wrote the entire second series of The Belfry Witches (BBC) and has written scripts for several computer games. His first short film Slip Road was made by the NFTS.

As a writer, director and editor: Nick’s first short, Hic, featured Ewen Macintosh (The Office) and Tom Hollander (Gosford Park), and was screened at the Kino, Cinequest and Hamptons Film Festivals. His second film After 8 is a devised piece featuring Lorraine Ashbourne (Fever Pitch, Playing The Field) and Neil Dudgeon (Messiah, Mrs. Bradley Murder Mysteries) and his third short, Peace and Quiet, was commissioned by the Film Council digital shorts scheme Pulse, it was shot on HDCAM and features Annabelle Apsion (Shameless) and Simon Day (The Fast Show).

PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Jonathan Taylor

Jonathan Taylor discovered stage design while studying Architecture at Newcastle University and, on leaving, continued to work on various fringe shows including an acclaimed adaptation of ‘Les Enfant Terribles’ by Ladies and Gentlemen. 

An advertisement in The Listener led to 17 years with the BBC Design Department, working on a wide variety of television programmes from ‘Les Dawson’ to ‘1996 Olympic Games’; but Jonathan’s main interest lay in drama, which included ‘My Night with Reg’ directed by Roger Michell, 2 series of ‘Between the Lines’, Sean O’Casey’s ‘The Shadow of a Gunman’, ‘The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd’ by D.H Lawrence, ‘The House of Eliott’, and a BAFTA nomination for ‘Jonathan Creek’.

Since becoming freelance in 1997, TV credits include several series of ‘Silent Witness’, the BAFTA-winning ‘Tracy Beaker’, ‘Waking the Dead’, and ‘The Brief’.    

 

SOUND DIRECTOR & DUBBING MIXER - Matthew Gough A.M.P.S.

Matthew’s credits include: 2006 – Breaking and Entering
2005 – The Brothers Grimm, The Magic Roundabout
2004 – Two Brothers
2003 – Cold Mountain (BAFTA nomination), Ned Kelly
2002 – Dirty Pretty Things

SOUND EDITOR - Colette Dahanne

Colette’s credits include:
2005 – The Constant Gardener, Robots
2004 – Alfie, Five Children and It, Garfield, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2003 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, In America, Dirty Pretty Things

DUBBING MIXER & FOLEY EDITOR - David Humphries A.M.P.S. C.A.S.

David’s credits include:
2005 / 2006 – The Kovak Box, Dr Who, Second in Command, The Detonator
2004 – Hustle, Stage Beauty
2001 - 2003 – Longtitude (BAFTA TV nomination); Shackleton (Cinema Audio Society Award), Revenger's Tragedy, September 11