About

North East

Screen

Alison is responsible for identifying new sources of revenue and developing the organisation’s programming activity. She works to expand the organisation’s commercial operations and broaden its relationship with potential stakeholders, from local councils and regional businesses, to arts and other media organisations.

Our operations director Gayle is responsible for operational processes and day to day delivery of North East Screens production service, our North East Screen Academy, project monitoring, evaluation and reporting schedules. She has worked promoting the North East to film and TV productions at the agency for over 20 years working with projects such as Dungeons and Dragons, Harry Potter and Atonement.

Lisa is our Development Director. She leads the Development team in working with indies, supply chain companies and above the line talent to build scale, capacity, resilience and infrastructure to grow the regions screen industry.

Katie is the first point of contact for North East Screen’s Film Office. Responsible for promoting the region to film and TV companies encouraging them to film in the North East.

Katie also supports productions looking for regional crew, location and facilities and is responsible for maintaining a comprehensive database.

Jo is responsible for planning and delivering all marketing and communication activity, promoting North East Screen to a wide range of audiences, partners and stakeholders.

Working closely with all lines of the business, Jo develops marketing campaigns to promote our talent and business development programme for emerging and established film and television professionals. She is the first point of contact for press enquiries and looks after our social media channels.

As Interim Talent and Business Development Manager, Emma manages the development initiatives for businesses and above-the-line talent within the North East.

Teresa works closely with funders to measure and report on the impact that North East Screen makes.

Having overall responsibility for monitoring and evaluation across North East Screen, Teresa manages the requirements of each fund, specifically the ERDF Tees Valley Screen Development project.

Victoria is responsible for planning and delivering all large scale, special events in that feature in North East Screen’s calendar. She also looks after campaigns for our North East Production Fund projects.

Holly is the Film Office Coordinator (Locations) and the first point of contact for all enquiries from TV and film production companies looking to film in the North East. She also supports visiting production companies by organising and attending familiarisation and recce trips to the region.

As Skills Coordinator, David organises and is responsible for the smooth running of all Crew Academy events. He monitors the career development of Crew Academy members, offering insights on work opportunities and tactical support such as refining CV’s and interview techniques.