Festival Team - 2026
Darren Henderson
(TBIFF Co-Founder
& Director)
Film production company director, casting director, actor, make up artist, script editor and martial arts instructor.
Anna Henderson
(TBIFF Co-Founder, Director & Programmer)
Award-winning filmmaker, PhD Candidate in Film, Lancaster University film tutor, ex-judge at Edinburgh Short Film Festival, coordinator at a number of international festivals.
Katie Hatt
(Assistant Producer)
Award-winning filmmaker, with an array of experience within the Creative industries. Currently a final year Film and Theatre student at Lancaster University.
Maryam Ghorbankarimi
(TBIFF Treasurer &
Animation Programmer)
Award-winning filmmaker (Bina film) and film scholar (Lancaster University), focusing on the representation of women in film.
Philip Herd
(TBIFF Patron & Advisory Board Member)
Independent film producer from "Chromatic Aberration Pictures" known for films "My Policeman", "Archive", "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and "Unicorns".
Cerys Cooper
(Technical Director)
Physics PhD student at Lancaster University with a passion for cinema.
Ethan Ward
("Teen Media" manager & supervisor)
Film Studies student at Lancaster University, PQA Film tutor, aspiring writer and filmmaker.
Nathan Walton
(Editor)
Award-winning director and editor from Lake District working with short films, documentaries, music videos.