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Producer/AD
Alice McFaul is a Producer and AD with over 15 years experience working in the film and television industry. After studying Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Alice began her career in Northern Ireland before relocating to London and then eventually New York, working on some of Netflix' recent top rated shows including Should I Marry a Murderer?and Lover, Stalker, Killer. As a 1st Assistant Director Alice has worked across multiple seasons of the Emmy award-winning series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, as well as Tucci in Italy for Disney+. She has recently set up her own company here in NI (Sunnybank Films) and splits her time between Belfast and New York.
Editor/Producer Redwolf Films
Elisa Bonora is an Emmy-nominated film editor, writer, and documentary producer with over 40 films to her credit. Born in Milan, she moved to California and began her career with acclaimed director Joe Pytka, earning Gold and Bronze Lions at Cannes before moving into documentaries with Oliver Stone’s Comandante. Her credits include Blackfish, Brave Miss World, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, The Ivory Game, Ghost Fleet, and David Crosby: Remember My Name, earning two Emmy nominations, an ACE Eddie nomination, and a Grammy nomination, with two films, Blackfish and The Ivory Game, shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Now based in Northern Ireland, she co-founded Red Wolf Films with creative partner Giordano Bonora Groome. Recent work includes Deep Rising (Sundance), Maestra (Tribeca Audience Award), Robert Richardson: The White Devil (Karlovy Vary Audience Award), and Couture to the Max (Tribeca). She is currently Supervising Editor on an upcoming RTÉ documentary about the legendary Lisdoonvarna Music Festival
Filmmaker/Film distributor
Tim Brown has been in the film and distribution business for over 30 years. Starting in the early 90’s, selling and marketing films for home entertainment. In 2009 he founded, Joker Films, to buy and sell feature films to a worldwide marketplace. He has produced and executive produced over 30 films, written and co-written 4 and directed 5. His last film he wrote, produced and directed was “The Retirement Plan” starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. He has also just finished his first book, “Don’t Make a F*cking Movie”.
Screenwriter
Mark Michael McNally is a Belfast-based Screenwriter known for writing the Irish-Western film In the Land of Saints and Sinners with Terry Loane (Mickybo & Me). Directed by Robert Lorenz (The Marksman), it featured an all-Irish cast including Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon, Jack Gleeson, Colm Meaney and Ciaran Hínds. As an international co-production, it premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and was released in US cinemas in March 2024 and in Ireland and the UK on Netflix in April 2024. He currently has scripts in development with numerous production companies and agencies, including Sleeper Films, Cardel Entertainment, Untitled Entertainment, NI Screen, Screen Ireland and Studio Pictures Ltd, working alongside IFTA-nominated Directors and BAFTA and Oscar-Nominated Producers . Mark was also a recipient of the David Puffnam Scholarship, BBC Writersroom’s Belfast Voices Programme, Stowe Story Labs’ Connemara Residency and the Garage Theatre Writer-in-Residency. In addition to screenwriting, Mark has worked as the trainee director on the 2023 drama The Last Rifleman film, starring Pierce Brosnan, and the 2024 action film Old Guy, starring Christoph Waltz and Cooper Hoffman