Rebecca (Bex) Melvin Phillips (she/her)

Rebecca (Bex) Melvin Phillips is a Devon-based filmmaker, choreographer and designer with a love for the weird and wonderful. She hosts a monthly Film Club and film screenings for Devon-based filmmakers, as well as writing film reviews and articles for Devon & Cornwall Film. She enjoys reading about the esoteric, folklore and the supernatural and is an unashamed horror nerd. Her ambition is to build a company of collaborators and work professionally in the film industry producing a body of cross-platform work that embraces the ethos ‘Strange is Beautiful’. Creativity is her constant. She enjoys making things happen. 

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Holly Kellock (she/her)

Holly Kellock is a recent graduate from Arts University Plymouth with a degree in Film and Screen Arts. She works at Silverstream TV as a junior producer and Production Coordinator, and produces short films outside of her day job. She is currently working on a short film called Kordh, an LGTBQIA+ film spoken in the Cornish language, and enjoys both the business and creative side of being a producer.  

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Kiara Wakeley (she/her)

Kiara’s journey in the creative industries started at Sixth Sense (now Prime Theatre) in Swindon, where she went from being a member to mentoring young people as a Youth Theatre Leader. In 2019 she applied for the Outreach role at Create Studios, where she learnt more about the different roles available in the industry and found her strength in producing. Through this work she was hired freelance to work with local community group ‘Out of the Can’ earning her first credit as a producer. During COVID she completed an L4 Media Production Coordinator apprenticeship, achieving a Distinction (making her the first person in the UK to pass this course).  

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Paige Cawtheray (she/her)

Paige specialised in producing during her BA in Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, with additional roles as an AD and a director. Knowing how hard it is to break into the industry, especially as a woman coming from a low-income background, Paige feels strongly about creating content for young adults that feels comforting and relatable to them, while also exploring the tough topics that some endure daily. She particularly enjoys being able to contribute creatively to the intersection between story development and production logistics. While her portfolio focuses on narrative shorts, she also aspires to work on HETV drama productions. 

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Ruth Chávez (she/her)

Ruth Chávez is a British-Ecuadorian production assistant and aspiring creative producer based in Bristol with a keen interest in developing and producing fiction and documentary films. This year she produced her first independent short film, Big Pants, (currently in post-production). It’s a sweet tale about masculinity, gender identity and solace found in community, right on your doorstep. Since graduating in Film and Television from the University of Bristol last year, she has production assisted on various shorts and commercials within the UK with Beeston Media, Perspective Pictures and Floating Harbour Films.  

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