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Film Production
Pearce Cullen is an experienced freelance Producer with the drive and ability to bring complex, exciting and important ideas from script to screen in features, shorts, TV and commercials. His self-shooting and editing skills, diligent research abilities, and a varied production experience history combine to form a strong understanding of the development, commissioning and production landscape. Using these skills he has developed a significant track-record of producing and co-ordinating high-quality and engaging video content, spanning scripted and unscripted television, shorts and feature film production, music videos, and commercial output. Most recently, Pearce has found success as the Producer of the short drama film, AN IRISH GOODBYE, written and directed by Ross White and Tom Berkeley, which won the BAFTA ‘Best British Short Film’ 2023, the Academy Award for ‘Best Life Action Short’ 2023, and the IFTA for ‘Best Short Film (Live-action)’ 2023, the first time in history any production has won all three awards
Co-Founder, Production & Dev, Whitepot Studios
Vicky Potts is a co-founder of Whitepot Studios, a Belfast-based kickass games development studio. From making websites at the age of 11, it felt pretty inevitable she would end up in tech. She went on to graduate from Queen's University Belfast in 2015 straight into her first business, a bluetooth beacon solution for museums and other venues, taking part in Invest NI’s Propel Programme and winning the Ireland Funds Business Plan Competition. Now, at 27, she is onto her second business with Whitepot Studios - which won NI Game Of The Year for their title Tubocity. Adept with C# and Unity, she is utilising her tech background to transition to a business and production role, and been named MCV Women In Games Rising Star Of the Year.
Events and Programming
Stuart Sloan is the head programmer for Docs Ireland, the island’s biggest documentary film festival, which he helped to form in 2019. He is also a documentary film editor, working on films that have screened on televisions and festivals across the world, such as SXSW, Thessaloniki, IDFA, TG4 and PBS.
Senior Researcher and Journalist at BBC News NI
Aimée has worked at the BBC for 8 years, first starting in 2017 on a Production Apprenticeship in the creative marketing department, she edited trails for BBC channels and also worked at events such as the BBC’s Biggest Weekend. She then moved to News in 2019 and worked freelance whilst studying for her degree in BA Broadcast Production at Queen’s University Belfast. Finishing her degree in 2021, she then got a permanent role in the BBC newsroom. She has been doing that for the past 4 years now and is currently working across multiple platforms such as TV, radio and online.