The ScreenUK Industry Podcast

From the director of The Arbor, The Selfish Giant, Dark River and Ali & Ava comes a new poignant work, a story of friendship and community, delving into the challenges of both leaving and remaining in the town where you grew up. Join us to discover the story and the creative process behind Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, with the director’s long-time producer Tracy O’Riordan, the writer of the acclaimed novel Keiran Goddard, and Olivier Award-winning actor Anthony Boyle (House of Guinness, Manhunt, Danny Boy). The film is supported by BBC FILM and the BFI. 

Speakers:

ANTHONY BOYLE | Actor (Patrick)
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

KEIRAN GODDARD | Novelist
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

TRACEY O'RIORDAN | Producer
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Moderator:

WENDY MITCHELL | Journalist and Film Festival Programmer

About the speakers:

 

ANTHONY BOYLE
Anthony is an Olivier Award-winning, Tony-nominated Northern Irish actor who trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He first came to prominence in HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, playing the role of Scorpius Malfoy in the West End and on Broadway. Anthony most recently wrapped on Steven Knight's HOUSE OF GUINNESS for Netflix. Prior to this he was seen starring in the Apple TV+ limited series MANHUNT, playing John Wilkes Booth opposite Tobias Menzies, as well as starring in MASTERS OF THE AIR for Apple TV+, alongside Callum Turner and Austin Butler. Other credits include HBO's limited series THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA, the feature film TETRIS and DANNY BOY for BBC, for which he received rave reviews. Up next, Anthony is currently filming the leading role of Sam Bankman-Fried in the Netflix series THE ALTRUISTS, starring alongside Julia Garner.

 

KEIRAN GODDARD
Keiran Goddard is an internationally published novelist, poet and social theorist. His first collection was shortlisted for the William Blake prize and the Melita Hulme Prize, his debut novel HOURGLASS was listed for the Desmond Elliott prize and his second novel I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING was published to widespread acclaim and nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize. His third novel FILL THE WORLD will be published in late 2026. He also writes regularly as a critic for The Guardian and The Observer.

 

TRACEY O'RIORDAN
I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING is Tracy’s fifth film with Clio Barnard. Tracy was co-producer on Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical THE END (2023), starring Michael Shannon, Tilda Swinton and George MacKay. Prior to this she produced the TV series ALICE & JACK (2022), for Me+You Productions and Groundswell Films, written by Victor Levin, directed by Juho Kuosmanen and Hong Khaou, starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson. Twice BAFTA-nominated ALI & AVA, stars Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar, and was released in March 2022. DREAM HORSE (2019) written by Neil McKay, directed by Euros Lyn, starring Owen Teale, Toni Collette and Damian Lewis, premiered at Sundance, and won two Welsh BAFTAs in 2022. MONSOON (2018), directed by Hong Khaou (LILTING), stars Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers. DARK RIVER (2017) was Tracy’s third film with Clio Barnard starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean. THE SELFISH GIANT (2012), selected for The Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was nominated for an Outstanding British Film BAFTA Award. The much lauded THE ARBOR (2010), her first project with Clio Barnard, won several international awards and was nominated for an Outstanding Debut BAFTA Award.

 

WENDY MITCHELL
Wendy Mitchell is a journalist, curator and moderator. She is a Contributing Editor at Screen International and hosts the weekly Screen Podcast. She also serves as the Nordic and UK delegate for the San Sebastian International Film Festival and curates their Creative Investors Conference, as well as consulting for Cannes Marche and Berlinale's European Film Market.

 
Produced and hosted by Lawrence Francis / www.premiercomms.com

In the competition for attention, films can struggle to stand out without a strong marketing, PR or social media campaign. Our international panel of speakers reveal the lessons learnt from years of work around festival campaigns, national releases, and global markets. From the role of influencers to social media platforms and press junkets, find out how to cut through the noise.

Speakers:

MATHIAS NOSCHIS | Head of Strategy
Alphapanda

JONATHAN RUTTER | Executive Director
Premier PR

KARINA GECHTMAN | International Marketing & Publicity Consultant

Moderator:

ANNA HIGGS | Managing Director
Character 7

About the speakers:

 

MATHIAS NOSCHIS
Mathias Noschis is a film marketing strategist specialised in social media. He is the founder of Alphapanda, a film marketing agency with team members in Berlin, Warsaw and Milan. Alphapanda’s client list includes The Match Factory, Bankside Pictures, Warner Bros, the European Film Market and several independent producers, distributors and sales agents. Alphapanda’s recent projects include Yellow Letters (Berlinale ’26 Golden Bear), Father Mother Sister Brother (Venice ’25 Golden Lion), Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Sundance ’23) and The Quiet Girl (Berlinale ’21). Mathias is also a speaker and tutor for organisations such as ACE Producers, EAVE and Locarno Industry Academy.

 

JONATHAN RUTTER
Jonathan Rutter is Executive Director at Premier, the UK’s leading entertainment publicity agency. He began his career as a film publicist in 1985 and between 1993 and 2006 ran the successful agency McDonald & Rutter with partner Charles McDonald. His work covers film productions, festivals, international campaigns and UK distribution, and he has handled films by most of the world’s leading film-makers including multiple titles with Robert Altman, David Lynch, Mike Leigh, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, Anthony Minghella, Danny Boyle, Whit Stillman, the Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos.

 

KARINA GECHTMAN
Karina is an international film marketing and publicity consultant with over 20 years’ experience across production, sales and distribution for independent film and documentary. She partners with filmmakers to shape positioning and lead global marketing strategies from early development through production, festival launch, and worldwide release, working across both B2B and B2C campaigns. Previously VP of International Marketing and Publicity at Anton, she has also held senior roles at Altitude, Secret Cinema, Paramount Pictures, and Disney. Karina has collaborated with leading filmmakers including Asif Kapadia, Lynne Ramsay, David Mackenzie, Sarah Gavron, Clio Barnard and Kevin Macdonald.

 

ANNA HIGGS
Anna Higgs is Managing Director of production company Character 7, whose recent work includes heist Culprits and psychological thriller The Undoing. A second season of The Night Manager, in partnership with Ink Factory, premiered on BBC and Amazon in January 2026. A multi-award-winning producer, columnist and host, Higgs Executive Produced Channel 4 mini-series Beth, from writer-director Uzo Oleh, and is Producer on Hassan Akkad's debut feature film, following his successful short film Matar. Visionary work she has supported includes Sundance-winning Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth, BAFTA-winning The End of the F*cking World and Oscar winner Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank.

 

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A panel of international producers, from The Netherlands, Greece, and Mexico, discuss their experience co-producing with the UK: models of business collaboration; distribution of roles and responsibilities between partners; creative challenges and opportunities; access to funds, and more. Their combined experience covers such titles as Triangle of Sadness; Swimming Home; Leonora in the Morning Light; How To Have Sex, and many more.

Speakers:

KONSTANTINOS KONTOVRAKIS | Producer
Kinestet

LEONTINE PETIT | Founder, CEO & Producer
Lemming Film

JULIO CHAVEZMONTES | Founder and CEO
Piano

Moderator:

ROWAN WOODS | Curator and Senior Film & TV Executive

About the speakers:

 

KONSTANTINOS KONTOVRAKIS
Konstantinos Kontovrakis has produced and coproduced more than 25 internationally acclaimed films, including Un Certan Regard winner How to Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker and Palme d’Or winner and Oscar nominated Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund. Kontovrakis received the ‘European Co-production Award’ at the European Film Awards, in 2018. His latest film, the Greek debut The Last Call directed by Sherif Francis and produced by Tanweer Productions, is the highest grossing title in the Greek B.O, for ’26 and he is currently in post-production of Sara Driver’s long-awaited feature fiction An Odd Enchantment.

 

LEONTINE PETIT
Leontine Petit is founder, CEO and producer of Lemming Film. She holds an MA in Philosophy and is an alumnus of EAVE, ACE, and Inside Pictures. A passionate advocate for independent cinema, she serves as Deputy Chair of the European Film Academy board and is a member of 'The Creatives'. In 2016, she received the European Co-production Award – Prix Eurimages. From offices in Amsterdam and Ghent, she has co-produced 75 films and 24 drama series since 1995. Her award-winning work, produced across Europe, Asia, and South America, continues to connect with audiences worldwide.

 

JULIO CHAVEZMONTES
Julio Chavezmontes is a renowned Mexican producer and screenwriter, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Screenwriting at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival for Time Share. Since co-founding Piano in 2011, his productions have screened in major film festivals across the world including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance and Toronto, receiving over 100 awards and nominations. Notable works include Nuestra Tierra (2025), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Annette (2021), and Memoria (2021). Chavezmontes has been profiled by prestigious outlets such as Variety, Forbes, GQ, and in 2021, he was selected as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Mexico by Quien Magazine.

 

ROWAN WOODS
Rowan is a curator and senior film and TV executive with extensive experience across festival programming, development, commissioning, acquisitions and distribution. She has previously worked for BBC Film, BFI Distribution, Shudder, British Council, BFI London Film Festival. She currently works for Berlinale and Toronto International Film Festival and was most recently the Creative Director at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

 

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In a near-future world, death has become optional, but at age 250, Claire has decided it is time to die – a decision that brings about unexpected challenges. Featuring a stellar cast (Rebecca Hall, Gael García Bernal, Noomi Rapace), Maria Martínez Bayona’s first feature film brings together producers from the UK, Spain and Norway. Join us for a conversation with the film’s co-producers Emilie Jouffroy, Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl, and Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, to discover the world of The End of It. The film is supported by BBC Film and the UK Global Screen Fund. 

Speakers:

DYVEKE BJØRKLY GRAVER | Producer/Partner
Eye Eye Pictures

KAMILLA KRISTIANE HODØL | Co-Managing Director
Elation Pictures

EMILIE JOUFFROY | Co-Managing Director
Elation Pictures

Moderator:

DENITSA YORDANOVA | Director of UK Global Screen Fund and International Funds
BFI

About the speakers:

 

DYVEKE BJØRKLY GRAVER
Dyveke Bjørkly Graver graduated from BI Norwegian Business School, and Lillehammer University College. She started working as a producer in 2014, when she also participated in the Eave Producer's Workshop. In May 2017, she moved from Cinenord to Oslo Pictures where she also became managing director. As of 2018 she became a part of the ACE Network, and in 2019 she was the Norwegian Producer on the move. In 2022 she started Eye Eye Pictures, together with producing partner, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar. Some of her titles include THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2021) by Joachim Trier, which received 2 Oscar nominations and 2 BAFTA nominations, SICK OF MYSELF (2022) by Kristoffer Borgli which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Dara van Dusen which premiered at the Berlinale in 2026, with upcoming titles THE END OF IT by Maria Martinez Bayona in Cannes Premiere (as co-producer) and FJORD by Cristian Mungiu in Cannes Competition this year.

 

KAMILLA KRISTIANE HODØL
Hailing from Norway, Kamilla is a BAFTA-nominated producer and the co-founder of Elation Pictures, alongside partner Emilie Jouffroy. Named in Screen's Brit 50: Ones to Watch 2025, Elation launched Elation Pictures AS, a Norwegian subsidiary, to strengthen cross-border creative partnerships. The company focuses on ambitious, director-driven storytelling. Their slate includes THE END OF IT, starring Rebecca Hall, World Premiering in Official Selection at Cannes, and the upcoming FOXFINDER (dir. Aoife McArdle SEVERANCE). Past titles include THE DAMNED (2024) and TIDES (2017). Kamilla is an alumna of ACE, iFeatures, Nordic Genre Boost and Guiding Lights and a graduate of the NFTS.

 

EMILIE JOUFFROY
Emilie is a BAFTA-winning producer and co-founder of Elation Pictures alongside partner Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl. Named in Screen's Brit 50: Ones to Watch 2025, Elation launched Elation Pictures AS, a Norwegian subsidiary, to strengthen cross-border creative partnerships. The company focuses on ambitious, director-driven storytelling. Their slate includes THE END OF IT, starring Rebecca Hall, World Premiering in Official Selection at Cannes, and the upcoming FOXFINDER (dir. Aoife McArdle SEVERANCE). Past titles include THE DAMNED (2024) and TIDES (2017). A graduate of the NFTS, Emilie is also an alumna of EAVE Producer’s Workshop, Guiding Lights, and Nordic Genre Boost.

 

DENITSA YORDANOVA
Denitsa Yordanova is the Director of UK Global Screen Fund and International Funds at the British Film Institute (BFI), overseeing UK Global Screen Fund and BFI’s international funding activities, including support for delegations and UK presence at international events. The UK Global Screen Fund was launched in 2021 to support international development, co-production and distribution opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed by UK government, the fund has recently been expanded to over £18m per year for 2026-29, up from £7m per year previously. To date, the UK Global Screen Fund has invested over £25m into UK screen sector companies and projects, including close to £11m on 68 co-productions collaborating with 35 territories. Co-productions such as GOOD BOY, ORPHAN, SAIPAN, THE END, BRING THEM DOWN, SEPTEMBER SAYS and BLUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY, have premiered at festivals such as Berlin, Telluride, Toronto, Sundance and Cannes. 

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Stories increasingly travel across media: from book to screen, game to television, theatre to cinema. In some cases, stories are born in one medium and adapted into another; in others, worlds are created with a transmedia approach from the get-go. This episode will explore different models of collaboration, both from a business and a creative perspective, and address the promotional and distribution strategies of cross-media stories.

Speakers:

JOHN GIWA-AMU | Founder & Producer
Good Gate Media

CHELSEA MORGAN HOFFMANN | Producer
Element Pictures

CARTHEW NEAL | Producer
Piki Films

Moderator:

NADIA M. OLIVA | Film & Culture Programmer

About the speakers:

 

JOHN GIWA-AMU
John Giwa-Amu is Founder & Producer of the award-winning Cardiff-based film, HETV & gaming studio Good Gate Media. His films have won awards at BAFTA Cymru, BIFA, Berlin, Toronto, Tribeca & Sundance. GGM projects include The Man in My Basement with Disney, which premiered at TIFF, & held the number one streaming spot on Hulu; BAFTA-nominated H is for Hawk with Plan B and Lionsgate released at Telluride; and Lady a BFI/Film4-backed thriller feature which premiered at Sundance winning the Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble. GGM is currently in development with major studio partners on multiple projects across film, television and games.

 

CHELSEA MORGAN HOFFMANN
Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann is a producer at Element Pictures where she has an extensive slate across both Film and TV. Recent projects include THE LISTENERS, a four-part series for the BBC, adapted by the author, Jordan Tannahill and directed by Janicza Bravo, starring Rebecca Hall, and SEPTEMBER SAYS, the feature debut of director Ariane Labed, based on the Daisy Johnson novel SISTERS which premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes 2024. Upcoming productions include the feature THE LOST CHILDREN OF TUAM, directed by Frank Berry, written by Rebecca Lenkiwicz, and starring Monica Dolan, and THE RACHEL INCIDENT with PageBoy and Universal Picture Group for Channel4, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Caroline O'Donoghue.

 

CARTHEW NEAL
Carthew Neal is an Academy nominated producer, who formed Piki Films with Taika Waititi, & also produces through Fumes. Carthew produced Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit & Hunt For the Wilderpeople, Jackie Van Beek & Madeleine Sami’s The Breaker Upperers. He is executive producer on Rachel House’s The Mountain, Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s We Were Dangerous, Damon Fepulea’i’s Red, White & Brass, Tanu Gago’s Picking Crew, & Curtis Vowell's Baby Done. He also produced David Farrier’s Tickled, & TV series Dark Tourist, Jessica Hansell’s Aroha Bridge, Sami’s Super City, Thomas Sainsbury’s Small Town Scandal, Angella Dravid’s Age/Sex /Location, & conceived & produced Wa$ted.

 

NADIA M. OLIVA
Nadia Maria Oliva is a film + series programmer, writer and interviewer with a passion for amplifying bold voices in international cinema and lessening barriers to access in the industry. Nadia leads curation for the UK + Ireland at MUBI, having previously developed public-, industry- and talent-facing programming at the Tate, Netflix, BAFTA, the BFI and Film London. Prior to her decade-long run in London, Nadia’s film journey began in her hometown of Toronto, Canada where she spent many years on the year-round programming team at the Toronto International Film Festival.

 

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