BAFTA Breakthrough Brits Jury 2014
JOHN WILLIS
Breakthrough Brits Jury ChairJohn Willis is Chief Executive of Mentorn Media and Group Creative Director of Tinopolis plc.
He is also BAFTA Deputy Chairman and has been closely involved with the Academy since
becoming a member almost 30 years ago. He is a recipient of four BAFTA nominations andone win for Best Factual Programme for documentary Johnny Go Home. He reprises his roleas Breakthrough Brits Jury Chair for the initiative in 2014.
GEORG BACKER
Breakthrough Brits Games Sub-Committee Chair
Georg is a video game developer, designer and producer with over 15 years of industry
experience. While at Lionhead Studios, Georg worked on BAFTA Award-nominated andwinning games such as Black & White, The Movies, Fable 1, 2 and 3. Georg left Lionhead in2011 in order to pursue a variety of projects, including working with TV presenter Jonathan
Ross and co-founding ETOO, a free not-for-profit video games exhibition. Georg sits on theBAFTA Games Committee.
HILARY BEVAN JONES
Breakthrough Brits Film and TV Sub-Committee Co-Chair
Hilary Bevan Jones is a film and TV producer at Endor Productions Ltd. She won a BAFTA forBest Drama Series for Cracker. Her other credits include Mary and Martha, The Girl in theCafé, The Boat That Rocked and Red Dwarf. Hilary was Chair of BAFTA from 2006-2008 andsits on BAFTA’s Learning and Events Committee.
JAMES DEAN
Breakthrough Brits Film and TV Sub-Committee Co-ChairJames Dean is a TV producer and director at Welded Tandem Picture Company. He
recently won the Best International Feature award at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh for his
documentary Discoverdale. His other credits include This is Jinsy, Eric Cantona: Looking forManchester and Supersize vs Superskinny. James sits on BAFTA’s Learning and Events
Committee.
RICHARD AYOADE
Richard Ayoade is a writer, actor, comedian and director. At this year’s British AcademyTelevision Awards Richard was awarded Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
for his role in The IT Crowd. His directorial debut Submarine garnered him a BAFTA
nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer in 2012. Othercredits include The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and The Double, which hewrote and directed.
RONAN BENNETT
Ronan Bennett is a screenwriter and novelist. His film and TV credits include BAFTAnominated Top Boy, Hidden, Public Enemies and Lucky Break. His third novel, TheCatastrophist, was nominated for the Whitbread Novel Award in 1998 and 2004’s Havoc, in
Its Third Year was listed for the Booker prize.

BARBARA BROCCOLI OBE
Barbara Broccoli is a film producer best known for her work on the James Bond franchise
which she has helmed since 1995’s GoldenEye. Skyfall was awarded a BAFTA for
Outstanding British Film, and Casino Royale was nominated for the same award. In 2008,
Barbara was appointed OBE, and in 2014, was selected as a member of the Jury for the 64thBerlin International Film Festival.
CHARLES CECIL MBE
Charles Cecil has been a key figure in the interactive entertainment industry for overthirty years and was awarded an MBE for services to the computer games industry in
2011. He won a BAFTA Cymru award for his work as game designer, executive
producer and a voice director for Doctor Who – the Adventure Games. Charles is anAmbassador for BAFTA, sits on the Board of Governors of the British Film Institute andScreen Yorkshire, and is a visiting lecturer for the University of York and the National Filmand Television School.
OLIVIA COLMANOlivia Colman is an actress who has worked on some of the best-loved British dramas of thelast few years including Peep Show and Broadchurch alongside David Tennant. In 2013 she
won the BAFTA for Supporting Actress for her role in Accused (Mo’s Story) and for Female
Comedy Performance for Twenty Twelve. She also won the BAFTA for Lead Actress for herrole in Broadchurch at the 2014 Television Awards ceremony.
TIM CORRIETim Corrie is an agent with more than 40 years of experience in the screen industries and iscurrently chairman of Bob & Co Ltd. In 2010 Tim became the 40th Chairman of BAFTA, theonly agent to have done so, and served for two years through to June 2013. Previously, Timco-founded United Agents, serving as Co. Chairman for five years before retiring from thecompany in 2013. Tim has represented talent including Mark Herman (Boy In The Striped
Pyjamas), James Watkins (The Woman in Black) and Jeff Pope (Philomena).
MOLLY DINEEN
Molly Dineen is a documentary director, cinematographer and producer. She was awarded
The Grierson Trust’s 2003 Trustees' Award for her outstanding contribution to the art of documentary.
Her first film Home from The Hill garnered two BAFTA nominations and she subsequently won
BAFTA Awards for Lie of the Land and The Ark. Other credits include Heart of the Angel andfilm portraits of Tony Blair and Geri Halliwell.
ANNE DUDLEY
Anne Dudley is a critically-acclaimed composer, producer and performer. She hascomposed and produced soundtracks for award-winning films and TV shows including The
Crying Game, American History X and Les Misérables. In 1997, her original music for The Full
Monty won her an Oscar and saw her nominated for a BAFTA. Other accolades include aGrammy, a Brit Award, several Ivor Novello nominations and a BAFTA nomination for her
soundtrack to Jeeves and Wooster.
NINA KRISTENSEN
Nina Kristensen is Director & Co-Founder of three-time BAFTA-nominated independent gamedeveloper Ninja Theory. In 2014, Devil May Cry won Best British Game at the BAFTA GameAwards. At the 2007 awards, Heavenly Sword received nominations in both the Artistic
Achievement and Story and Character categories.

POLLY LEYS
Polly runs Hillbilly Films and Television with co-founder and co-producer Kate Norrish. They
won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama in 2012 for Random and were nominated in the same
category for the comedy-drama Holy Flying Circus. They have recently delivered their first
feature film, Second Coming by writer/director Debbie Tucker Green financed by Film4 andthe BFI. The film stars Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba and received its world premiere atToronto 2014. Polly was a member of the Breakthrough Brits Sub-Committee in 2014.
MIKE NEWELL
Mike Newell is a BAFTA-winning director and producer whose credits include Four Weddings
and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Mona Lisa Smile, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire andGreat Expectations. He won the BAFTA David Lean Award for Direction in 1994 for Four
Weddings and a Funeral, which also won a BAFTA for Best Film, and a César for Best ForeignFilm. In 2005, he was honoured with a BAFTA Britannia Award for Artistic Excellent in Directing.

JACK O’CONNELL
Jack O’Connell is a British actor best known for his lead role in the multi-BAFTA-winning E4series Skins. Jack made his film debut in Shane Meadow’s This is England in 2006, going on tostar in Eden Lake, Harry Brown, Starred Up and 300: Rise of an Empire. He plays the lead rolein Unbroken, directed by Angelia Jolie, which is scheduled for release later this year andstars in BAFTA Brit to Watch Yann Demange’s debut feature ’71.
ULA PONTIKOS
Ula Pontikos is a cinematographer who has shot numerous award-winning short films,
promos and documentaries. She was awarded Best Cinematography at this year’s
Sundance Film Festival for Lilting, photographed critically-acclaimed Weekend andthe BAFTA-winning short I Do Air in 2010.
LEE SCHUNEMAN
Lee Schuneman is Studio Head of Microsoft’s Lift London, which focuses on Tablet, Mobile &Connected Devices. With over 18 years entertainment experience, Lee has led andinfluenced numerous highly successful Microsoft and Nintendo products, including theBAFTA award winning Kinect Sports 1 & 2 and the multi-million selling Diddy Kong Racing. Lee
is a member of the BAFTA Games Committee and sat on the Breakthrough Brits Games SubCommittee in 2013 and 2014.
PIERS WENGER
Piers Wenger is Head of Drama at Channel 4 and E4. Formerly Senior Commissioning
Executive at Film4 Productions and Head of Drama at BBC Wales, Piers oversaw andexecutive produced the hugely successful creative regeneration of Doctor Who. Other
credits include BAFTA-winning Victoria Wood drama Housewife, 49 and the 2010 revival ofUpstairs, Downstairs.