Louise WadleyLOUISE WADLEY is the Festival Director. Louise was a long time board member of the MardiGras Film Festival, and has served as a jurist for a number of film festivals, including Women in Film and Television (Australia). Louise graduated from the National Film and Television School in the UK and was a semi-finalist in The Academy Nicholl’s Scriptwriting competition and shortlisted for the Sundance Script Lab. Her debut feature All About E was released in 2016. Frustrated by the lack of roles for women she formed Girls’ Own Pictures with her partner Jay Rutovitz to develop and produce original stories with distinctive and exciting female lead characters.
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Jay RutovitzJAY RUTOVITZ is the Festival General Manager. She is a director of Girls’ Own Pictures. Jay has experience of managing large budgets in the energy sector. Jay has also worked as a producer, a gaffer, and a 2nd assistant director, alongside her career in renewable energy. She produced All About E (2015), a low budget narrative feature set in Sydney and the outback. Jay oversaw one of Australia’s most successful crowd funding projects for feature films, raising over $93,000 for All About E in a 2013 Pozible campaign, and raised $220,000 in private investment.
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MARY AGNES KRELLMary is an artist, a Professor of Creative Media and a leader. She has been producing events around the world for more than two decades. She is a Director of Education for Media, Film & Music in the school of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. Mary has been a board member for arts and community organisations in the UK and the USA. She is also the Producer and Director of the multi-award-winning Grand Northern Ukulele Festival (GNUF), a group in receipt of a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, “the MBE for voluntary groups".
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DONNA SIDONIO"I have lived in the Upper Calder Valley for almost 30 years and love being part of this community. I worked for many years in the public sector before moving on to new opportunities, including volunteering. My lifelong passion for cinema dates from my very first cinema outing at the age of five, watching “Swiss Family Robinson” at the West Norwood Regal. I am delighted to be actively supporting the Hebden Bridge Film Festival. I am also on the Friends of Hebden Bridge Picture House Committee."
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