Sol B. River graduated from the Northern Film School – Leeds Beckett University with an MA in scriptwriting and later in film direction. He has worked with key broadcasters such as Channel Four, ITV and the BBC. An eclectic experience as a writer, director and producer has seen a career span, theatre, radio, film and television; covering various genres from BBC World Service documentary to BBC Radio 4 drama. Having won and been nominated for various awards Sol is a published author (Oberon Books) and has contributed to various anthologies on the creative arts. Having cut his teeth as a director/producer on two Channel 4 documentaries for directors new to television, he progressed to deliver a number of independent current affairs films for the BBC.
Awards for film direction include Winner of Best Cinematography Lodz Media Festival Poland, International Festival Der Filmhochschulen Munich and the BBC London Short Film Festival. For his BBC Radio 4 work he was shortlisted for a Race in the Media Award (RIMA). He has been a Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Advisory Fellow and has held Academic Residencies at various Universities for the RLF..
Ali Rashid is an award winning producer who has served on a number of boards relating to film and television, including PACT. He ran his own production company for a number of years, is a former group head at YTV - Tyne Tees and the former Head of the School of Media, Design and Technology at the University of Bradford.
Sally has worked for all the leading UK channels. Specialising in difficult access based observational documentaries.
After completing a BA in American studies at Leicester University she won a Women in Film and Television bursary to the Northern Film School. She began her career as a runner aged 30, working on the Dragons' Den spin off shows at the BBC and as a location assistant for BBC 3 Bizarre ER.
She went on to work as an Assistant Producer on the popular retuning series Weight Loss Ward. Sally has been a producer on a number of difficult films for Channel 4 dispatches including Forced Marriage Cops, The Truth about Muslim Marriage as well as BAFTA and Grierson nominated, The Family Secret. She has produced and directed Fighting Shame for the Guardian, The Truth about Long Covid for Dispatches, Yorkshire Midwives on Call Episode 4 for BBC2 and 33 Families One Big Build for BBC1, Looking After the Grandkids: The True Cost with Jennie Bond. As well as, When can I see my GP? Presented by Dr Amir Khan for ITV1 Tonight. Recent projects include mentoring for Filmmakers 25 and Gritty Talent, a short form series 'Industry Voices' for social media.
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