INDUSTRY GUESTS 2023
JAN HARLAN (producer)
Jan Harlan worked with Stanley Kubrick for over thirty years and was Executive Producer on: Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, assistant to the Producer for A Clockwork Orange and Executive Producer on A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Kubrick.
Jan directed the feature-length documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures and the film Dvorak Who? about the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Alexander Baillie and other short documentaries for Warner Bros.
He has for several years been a regular guest lecturer at the European Film College, and also at the University of Hertfordshire, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2011.
PHILIP HERD (producer)
Philip Herd is an independent film producer from "Chromatic Aberration Pictures" known for such films as "My Policeman" (2022), "Archive" (2020) and "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (2011). His recent feature film "Unicorns" (2023) premiered at Toronto Film Festival and was screened at the London Film Festival. Philip is originally from Morecambe and he is the patron of The Bay International Film Festival.
Daragh Carville (Screenwriter / Showrunner)
Daragh Carville is a playwright and screenwriter, best known for co-creating and writing the ITV crime drama The Bay. First broadcast on ITV in 2019, The Bay has been sold to over 130 countries worldwide.
Daragh’s other TV credits include Being Human (BBC3, 2013), 6 Degrees (BBC NI, 2013/15) and The Smoke (Kudos/Sky One, 2014). His films are Middletown (dir. Brian Kirk, 2006) and Cherrybomb (dir. Lisa Barros d’Sa / Glen Leyburn, 2008.) Work for radio includes Regenerations (BBC Radio 3, 2001), which was nominated for the Richard Imison Award, and Dracula (Radio 4, 2003) starring Michael Fassbender.
Daragh Carville has won both the Stewart Parker and the Meyer Whitworth awards for playwriting and has twice been nominated as Best Writer in the Irish Film and TV Awards. He teaches Scriptwriting at Birkbeck, University of London.
Matthew James Wilkinson (producer)
Producer Matthew James Wilkinson previously worked as a Development Executive at Working Title Films. His current company Stigma Films has produced fifteen features to date, including Netflix Original CHOOSE OR DIE and Sky Original LAST TRAIN TO CHRISTMAS.
Matthew also produced YESTERDAY, for Working Title Films/Universal, written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle as well as AMULET (premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2020), DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (World Premiere at Locarno, and London Film Festival), MUSCLE (World Premiere at London Film Festival, nominated for a BIFA).