ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

NICK WILLING (Director)

In 2000 Nick Willing directed Jason and the Argonauts for Hallmark/NBC, starring Jason London, Dennis Hopper, Frank Langella, Olivia Williams and Derek Jacobi. In the previous year he directed Alice in Wonderland for the company. With a cast that included Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Gene Wilder, Ben Kingsley and Whoopi Goldberg, the lavish miniseries won four Emmy Awards.

Willing directed his first feature film in 1997 for Polygram Films. Photographing Fairies starred Ben Kingsley, Toby Stephens and Emily Woof and was produced by Michele Camarda for her Kismet Film Company. The film was invited to international festivals and won several awards.

Whilst attending National Film and Television School, he directed two animated short films The Door To Door Salesman, and The Golden Grape, and two live action shorts, Roadtrip and Lifeclass which won the Golden Dragon at Krakow Film Festival.

MICHELE CAMARDA (Producer)

Through her company Kismet Films, Michele Camarda most recently produced Born Romantic, directed by David Kane, starring Jane Horrocks and Jimi Mistry, and Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland, with Shirley Henderson and John Simm. Other feature productions include This Year's Love, directed by David Kane, starring Dougray Scott, Ian Hart, Jennifer Ehle and Kathy Burke, and Nick Willing's Photographing Fairies, starring Toby Stephens and Ben Kingsley.

Camarda graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Broadcasting and Film. In 1985 she moved to London where she produced commercials and music videos. In 1998 she enrolled in the post-graduate Producer course at the National Film and Television School where she produced six short films, including John Roberts Say Goodbye which won the BAFTA Award in 1991 for Best Short Film. Camarda's graduation film This Boy's Story, also directed by John Roberts, won the Student Academy Award and was bought for transmission by Channel Four.

In 1995 Camarda set up her company Kismet Films to develop and produce feature films, while continuing to produce commercials for Academy Productions and Propaganda Films.

Camarda is a Board Member of The First Film Foundation and is a member of BAFTA and ACE. Kismet currently has a development deal with Pathe Pictures.

PETER SOVA (Director of Photography)

Director of Photography Peter Sova most recently worked with director Paul McGuigan on his feature film Morality Play, and previously on the director's Gangster No 1, for which Sova was awarded the LA Film Festival Vision Award for Cinematography.

His long association with director Barry Levinson includes films Diner, Good Morning Vietnam and Tin Men. Other recent credits include Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco.

DON TAYLOR (Production Designer)

For his work on director Terence Davies's House of Mirth, the adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel starring Gillian Anderson, Don Taylor won the Golden Satellite Award for Feature Film Design. Other credits include the award-winning Little Voice, starring Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine, Brassed Off, Purely Belter and New Cardiff, all for director Mark Herman.

Don Taylor was awarded the Emmy for his design of the mini-series Emma.

NIVEN HOWIE (Editor)

Among Niven Howie's credits as editor are Guy Ritchie's hugely successful Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for which Howie was nominated for the Sierra Award by the LA Film Critics Society. Other recent credits include Nick Hamm's The Hole.

HAZEL PETHIG (Costume Designer)

Hazel Pethig previously collaborated with director Nick Willing and producer Michele Camarda on the award-winning feature film Photographing Fairies, and she lives almost next door to them. Her long association with the members of the Monty Python team began when she designed the wardrobe for their seminal television series and Pethig went on to act as costume designer on their feature films including The Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures.