DIRECTOR-GENERAL

A Bafta award-winning writer and director, Chris graduated from Cambridge University with First Class Honours in English Literature. His feature length documentary for Film4 and StudioCanal was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and subsequently enjoyed a successful theatrical release in over 30 countries worldwide. More recently, he has directed award-winning Immersive & Experiential content for Dreamworks, Disney and Universal. Chris has also been a regular Guest Lecturer on Cinema History at the European Film College in Denmark.

HEAD OF VISUAL AFFAIRS

An experienced documentary filmmaker whose work has screened on Channel 4 and at many international film festivals, Adam studied documentary at the UK’s National Film & Television School. He has subsequently won multiple awards including the Jury Prize at the prestigious North American arts festival Images Toronto. His most recent work, Fawley (2022), co-directed with Chu-Li Shewring, won Best International Film at Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s largest documentary festival and subsequently screened at the ICA, Curzon Bloomsbury and other arthouse venues. Adam is currently training to be therapist.

RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP

Chu-Li is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker who trained at the National Film & Television School, after receiving a BA in Sound Design from the London College of Communication. Her first film, Semangat (2011), was made for C4/BritDoc under the creative guidance of Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski. In 2017, she was recipient of the prestigious Jules Wright Prize at the Jarman Awards. As well as making her own films Chu-Li works as a Sound Designer on many acclaimed feature films, including Steve McQueen’s Hunger. Chu-Li is a Senior Lecturer in Film at Goldsmiths. She is also training to be therapist.

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

Johannes is an Academy Award winning technologist who specialises in the creative visualisation of ideas and stories. He grew up in Southern Germany and subsequently moved to Los Angeles where he has become a world leading pioneer in VR programming, Immersive Design and AI. He is a regular speaker at major industry events in his field, such as Siggraph in California. Johannes also won an Emmy for his work on Free Solo 360, a VR experience which accompanied the Oscar winning documentary of the same name.

DEPT. OF EXPERIENTIAL NARRATOLOGY

Ella has a Masters in Psychology from Edinburgh University, where she received a First. She has subsequently worked in contemporary immersive theatre and cinema, writing and designing live experiences for multiple Secret Cinema events including Stranger Things, Blade Runner and Casino Royale. Ella’s more personal work explores aspects of her own history, such as her theatre show Recovery Town.

PRODUCER

Olivia is an experienced producer from New York who now lives and works primarily in the UK. She learned her craft at Oscar-winning production company Framestore Pictures in Los Angeles, where she met and worked with fellow Personian Chris Waitt. She specialises in complex and ambitious visual effects for Film, Television and Immersive. She is currently Managing Director of the UK branch of boutique French VFX company Light.

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENTIST

After a degree in theoretical physics, Duncan obtained a doctorate at the University of Queensland, Australia in Computational Neuroscience. He has lived in England for the last decade working for innovate tech companies such as ThoughtWorks and 9d as a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Programmer. Duncan is also a highly virtuosic improvisational musician and multi-instrumentalist who performs conceptual music by composers such as Erik Satie, John Zorn and Frank Zappa.

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

Linda obtained her degree in Information and Management Systems at Cranfield University, a British postgraduate-only public research facility specialising in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Since then she has used her skills to manage large scale projects that require a balance of creativity and technology, working at the innovative software company Thoughtworks for 11 years on such projects as NHS Digital and the SLC Master & Doctoral Loans rollout for the Department of Education.

DEPT. OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Coming from a background in creative coding and state-of-the-art speech synthesis, Giacomo pioneered his own text-to-speech technology to create the groundbreaking Infinite Conversation - an AI generated never-ending philosophical discussion between the voices of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Bavarian filmmaker Werner Herzog. The project used four neural networks and a large language model to provide an eternal Socratic dialogue on the subject of mimesis in art and the nature of the human mind.

DESIGN

An experienced documentary filmmaker whose work has screened on Channel 4 and at many international film festivals, Adam studied documentary at the UK’s National Film & Television School. He has subsequently won multiple awards including the Jury Prize at the prestigious North American arts festival Images Toronto. His most recent work, Fawley (2022), co-directed with Chu-Li Shewring, won Best International Film at Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s largest documentary festival and subsequently screened at the ICA, Curzon Bloomsbury and other arthouse venues. Adam is currently training to be therapist.

DEPT. OF OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY

An experienced documentary filmmaker whose work has screened on Channel 4 and at many international film festivals, Adam studied documentary at the UK’s National Film & Television School. He has subsequently won multiple awards including the Jury Prize at the prestigious North American arts festival Images Toronto. His most recent work, Fawley (2022), co-directed with Chu-Li Shewring, won Best International Film at Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s largest documentary festival and subsequently screened at the ICA, Curzon Bloomsbury and other arthouse venues. Adam is currently training to be therapist.

An experienced documentary filmmaker whose work has screened on Channel 4 and at many international film festivals, Adam studied documentary at the UK’s National Film & Television School. He has subsequently won multiple awards including the Jury Prize at the prestigious North American arts festival Images Toronto. His most recent work, Fawley (2022), co-directed with Chu-Li Shewring, won Best International Film at Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s largest documentary festival and subsequently screened at the ICA, Curzon Bloomsbury and other arthouse venues. Adam is currently training to be therapist.