Liz Harkman

Managing Director
T: +44 (0) 117 929 7501

Mark Cosgrove

Artistic Director

Kieran Argo

Animation Programme Manager

Gaia Meucci

Brief Encounters Short Film Programmer

Jude Lister

Marketing and Development Coordinator
T: +44 (0) 117 929 9188

Julia Morrish

Festival Assistant
T: +44 (0) 117 929 9188

Joe Bateman

Joe is a director, producer, script editor and consultant.

Helen Brunsdon

Dylan Cave

Nigel Davies

Sam Groves

Sam is founder of KINO 10 and Programme Co-ordinator for the Flatpack Festival.

Tim Hayes

Tim is a freelance writer, journalist, publicist, and copy editor.

Colm McAuliffe

Colm has worked as a programmer and writer in the UK, Ireland and the US since 2006.

Marit Oprins

Paula Poveda

Katie Steed

Katie is director of Whirlygig Cinema and also works for Curzon Cinemas.

Rich Warren

Formerly Encounters Operations Manager, Rich now works for Metro Screen in Sydney.

Paul Appleby

Paul is the director of VID, a media consultancy working with BBC, Bristol University, ARKive, Creative Skillset and Bristol City Council...

Lynn Barlow

Journalist and producer Lynn’s career spans newspapers, radio and television...

Peter Carlton

Peter was Senior Commissioning Executive at Film4 for six years...

Patrick Collerton

Patrick has previously co-founded the Northern Lights Film Festival...

Steven Coombe

Steven is a Director and joint-owner of Burnside, Chartered Accountants, based in Queen Square in Bristol...

Eileen Elsey

Eileen came to Bristol from London in 1997 to work as Head of Media & Communications at the University of the West of England...

Alex Gilkison

Alex is Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol...

Ed Hayes

Ed is a lawyer based in the Bristol office of national firm TLT LLP...

Simon Perry

Simon Perry CBE was an independent film producer during the 1980s, working in the UK and France...

David Sproxton

David is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Aardman Animations...

Mark Taylor

Mark is a highly experienced animation director & producer at A Productions...