Laura Canning (she/her)
Laura Canning is an Irish filmmaker based in Cornwall, where she teaches on the BA Film at Falmouth University and acts as Production Lead for Sound/Image Cinema Lab. She wrote and directed Bleujyowa in 2023 for Screen Cornwall’s FylmK programme, and has producer, executive producer and 2nd unit director credits across shorts and features with Sound/Image Cinema Lab, Screen Cornwall and BFI NETWORK. Laura is mostly interested in stories about the secrets we keep even from ourselves. She is currently in pre-production on her next short Dassonyow, in post-production on an experimental short, and in development on a range of projects.
Mojola Akinyemi (she/her)
Mojola Akinyemi is a writer and director of stage and screen, from Hampshire. Her debut play ‘Great Mother’ was longlisted for the Bruntwood and Women’s Playwriting Prize. Her most recent play, ‘Cara and Kelly are Best Friends Forever For Life’ had a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre for the Soho Rising Festival. Her most recent award-winning short film, Baby (credited as writer), played at the BFI London Film Festival in 2025. Her debut feature film Bloodstock is in development, with the BFI NETWORK Early Development Fund. Her work mostly focuses on female-led narratives, studying race, gender, and class, from an oblique, darkly-comic perspective.
Ben Hooton (he/him)
Ben is a Bristol-based filmmaker originally from North East England. After building a career as an editor, including BAFTA Cymru-winning and internationally recognised projects, he directed his award-winning debut short, Confession Day. He is drawn to character-led stories rooted in working-class experience that balance emotional truth with broad audience appeal.
Elinor Lower (they/them)
Elinor Lower is a queer writer-director for theatre and film based in Bristol, specialising in stories that meet characters in moments of becoming, told with humour and tenderness. Their micro-short Dead Wife Hug (2025) won Best 48-Hour Film at Two Short Nights Film Festival and their short dawnbreaker (2026) was subsequently commissioned by Exeter Phoenix. They were a member of the 2025 BFI NETWORK New Voices cohort.
Euella Jackson (she/her)
Euella Jackson is a writer-director, storyteller and creative producer based in Bristol. A 2024 alumni of We Are Parable’s Momentum programme in partnership with Channel 4 and Sony Pictures, Euella describes herself as a disruptive storyteller. As well as writing and directing her own films, Euella has also supported a number of short projects as a producer in a bid to push for more diverse stories in film.