meet our trainers
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Belinda Copland
Founder Member, Media Compliance Services LLP
Compliance: Keeping up to Date
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Belinda Copland has specialised in media law for almost 20 years, including five years as a partner at Goodman Derrick where she is now a consultant. In her media law practice, she deals with all aspects of non-contentious and compliance work relating to television content and broadcasting. She also advises on a wide variety of media law matters including: defamation, contempt, copyright and breach of confidence. Belinda has extensive experience of television current affairs and documentary, and has worked as a programme lawyer within ITV Compliance. She has also spent time on secondment at a major advertising agency as acting General Counsel.
ITF Courses led by Belinda Copland
Compliance: Keeping up to Date
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Caroline Beaton
Director, Road Trip Media
Future-proofing Your Indie & Your Team
Selling Your Content: Effective Communication & Negotiation
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Caroline Beaton has worked in the TV industry for over 20 years and is one of its leading consultants and rights specialists. She was Joint MD of Carlton TV’s production company Action Time for many years, and spent 5 years before that at MTV Networks as Senior Director of International Programme Enterprises. She left Action Time in 2004 to set up her own company, Road Trip Media, which specialises in consultancy and coaching/training. Caroline has spearheaded business mentoring and executive coaching schemes on behalf of many organisations including Pact, UKTV, Skillset and several of the regional screen agencies. She is also a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming.
ITF Courses led by Caroline Beaton
Selling Your Content: Effective Communication & Negotiation
Future-proofing Your Indie & Your Team
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Claire Heys
Director, Commercial Partnerships, Tiger Aspect/Endemol UK Group
Ad-funded Content & Product Placement
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Claire Heys has worked in ad-funding for over 6 years, having shaped content strategies for GSK, Camelot, Orange, J&J, Cow & Gate, General Mills, The British Army, Waitrose, Nintendo and Australia Tourism. Claire joined Tiger Aspect in 2008 to build commercial partnerships around Tiger’s portfolio of new and existing programme brands.
ITF Courses led by Claire Heys
Ad-funded Content & Product Placement
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Clem Leneghan (LL.B., DipNEBOSH, Grad IOSH, MIIRSM)
Safety Advisor for Film & TV, Safety Guys
Health & Safety for Television Production
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Clem Leneghan is a film and TV Consultant specialising in Health & Safety advice and training for production companies. His clients include Granada, TalkBack, Hat Trick, Mentorn, MTV, Ecosse Films and RDF Media. Clem is a regular tutor at the National Film and TV School.
ITF Courses led by Clem Leneghan
Health & Safety for Television Production
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David Thomas
David Thomas Media Ltd
Freelancers’ Business Survival Kit
David Thomas has been a journalist, broadcaster and trainer for 30 years. He set up his own training business David Thomas Media Ltd in 2005. He specialises in business and marketing workshops for freelancers in the media and entertainment industries, working regularly with unions such as BECTU, as well as former BBC & ITV staff going freelance.
ITF Courses led by David Thomas
Freelancers’ Business Survival KIt
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Deborah Langdon-Davies
Industry trainer/expert adviser on copyright & broadcast rights
Intro to Artistic & Literary Copyright
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Deborah Langdon-Davies – worked for the BBC for nine years in the Copyright Department, now part of the BBC Talent Rights Group, specializing in literary and artistic rights issues across a wide range of programmes, particularly in factual programming. She set up and ran the Photo Unit which deals with the clearance of images for BBC television and multimedia, and conducted complex negotiations with rights holders such as BAPLA, DACS and the major UK Galleries on behalf of the BBC in order to establish industry wide terms for the use of visual material. Deborah has been working as a freelance trainer/adviser in copyright and broadcast rights. She has extensive experience of training in rights issues, and also advises production staff and rights owners on rights, contracts and negotiations.
ITF Courses led by Deborah Langdon-Davies
Intro to Artistic & Literary Copyright
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Dermot Scully
Partner, Scully Twiss
Intro to Employment Law
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Dermot advises employers and employees in the media and entertainment industries on the full range of employment law issues. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a law degree and qualified as a solicitor in 1991. Dermot was previously a partner and Head of Employment at London firm Harbottle & Lewis.
ITF Courses led by Dermot Scully
Intro to Employment Law
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Ian McBride
Founder Member, Media Compliance Services LLP
Compliance: Keeping up to Date
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Ian McBride is a journalist and programme maker with a 30 year record in delivering powerful and contentious programming, recognised by more than 20 national and international awards ranging from BAFTA and the RTS to Prix Italia and the International Emmies. As Granada’s head of factual drama, he contributed to some of the most forceful and demanding television pieces ever screened: Who Bombed Birmingham?, Fighting for Gemma and Hillsborough. Ian is a former deputy editor and producer/director on Granada’s World In Action, where he led the uncovering and pursuit of the once-hopeless cause of the Birmingham Six, and Granada’s campaign for their release, with five separate programmes over seven years. He has extensive detailed knowledge of broadcast content regulation: he retired from ITV in the summer of 2008 after eight years as managing editor and director of compliance. Ian is also a board member at the Association for Television on Demand.
ITF Courses led by Ian McBride
Compliance: Keeping up to Date
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Helen Black MBE, MBA, FCIPD
Managing Director, Creative People
Managing People for the First Time
Diversity: Putting the Pledge into Action
Recruitment: Attracting & Selecting the Right Talent
Reviewing your Career Options: A Workshop for Women Returning to Work in TV
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Helen Black is the Managing Director of Creative People which recruits, trains and coaches people in the broadcasting business. Previously Helen was HR Director for Pearson TV, and controller of Personnel for LWT
ITF Courses led by Helen Black
Managing People for the First Time
Diversity: Putting the Pledge into Action
Reviewing Career Options: A Workshop for Women Returning to Work in TV
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Ivan Chandler
Founder & CEO, Musicalities Ltd
Making Money from Music
Music Rights (1): The Essentials
Music Rights (2):Negotiating Agreements
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Ivan Chandler, Founder & CEO of Musicalities Ltd, is one of the UK’s most respected music copyright consultants with over 30 years experience in the entertainment industry including 1977-1980 as General Manager of Paramount Pictures’ music company, 1980 -1989 as European Manager of Motown’s music publishing division and 1992-1996 as the music consultant for PACT. He is also the author of the Pact publication “The Music Copyright Guide for Television and Film Production”. Ivan’s film credits include “Shooting Fish”, Sally Potter’s “The Tango Lesson” and “Believe – The Eddie Izzard Story”. Amongst Musicalities’ many clients are Aardman Animations, 19 Entertainment, Universal Music, 2entertain, Ecosse TV, Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One Productions, Simon & Schuster, Peter Andre, Faithless and Sir Michael Parkinson.
ITF Courses led by Ivan Chandler
Making Money from Music
Music Rights (1): The Essentials
Music Rights (2): Negotiating Agreements
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Joanne Twiss
Partner, Scully Twiss
Intro to Employment Law
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Joanne advises on all employment law issues, with a particular interest in tribunal and court litigation. She has many years’ experience of advising organisations and individuals in the media and entertainment sectors on employment law issues. She graduated from Birmingham University with a law degree and qualified as a solicitor in 1998 with London law firm Penningtons. Joanne was previously a partner in London firm Harbottle & Lewis. Joanne writes articles and contributes to newsletters on a regular basis, and is also a frequent speaker at client seminars and workshops.
ITF Courses led by Joanne Twiss
Intro to Employment Law
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Jon Davenport
Head of Digital, Hat Trick Productions
Cross-platform: Devising & Monetising Successful Apps
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Jon Davenport (Hat Trick’s Head of Digital) began his career in digital media at Granada where he produced the websites for I‘m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!, Blind Date and Emmerdale. He then moved into a development role at Endemol where he created various cross-platform formats including supernatural drama Signs of Life, the most expensive web production funded by the BBC at the time. Since setting up Hat Trick‘s digital department in 2006, he has continued to develop and produce ground-breaking projects, including BAFTA nominated Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie for BBC Three, online drama Neon Candy for Ford Fiesta, Chartjackers for BBC Switch, and Fonejacker (one of the most successful entertainment apps of all time).
ITF Courses led by Jon Davenport
Devising & Monetising Successful Apps
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Julie Clark
Freelance Line Producer (TV & Film)
Drama Production Management
Scheduling for Drama Production
Budgeting for Drama Production
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Julie Clark is a freelance Line Producer/Producer who works on high profile TV drama and mid to low budget feature films, for a variety of independent production companies. Her career started in documentaries over twenty years ago, but soon moved into drama, both period and contemporary. Her more recent TV credits include the BBC’s highly acclaimed “Crimson Petal and the White” and “Oliver Twist”, and ITV’s “Whitechapel” and “Secret Diary of a Call Girl”. She worked on Stephen Poliakoff’s latest feature “Glorious 39″, produced the award winning, low-budget film “Acts of Godfrey”, and has recently set up an indie feature film production company with a slate of three films in development. Julie is often called upon by independent production companies to breakdown scripts and budget productions which are in the early stages of development. In all she has line-produced over 30 dramas, so brings a wealth of experience to the course.
ITF Courses led by Julie Clark
Drama Production Management
Scheduling for Drama Production
Budgeting for Drama Production
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Justin Judd
Founder, i-Rights
Multiplatform: Making Money from Digital Platforms & Rights
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Justin puts the ‘Digital’ into Digital Rights Group. He founded i-Rights in December 2004 to focus on the management, distribution and exploitation of IPR and content on digital and interactive media and emerging platforms. i-Rights became part of the DRG in June 2007 and Justin has responsibility for all digital and brand related activity within the group. Backed by venture capitalists Ingenious Media, DRG has grown to become one of the leading independent distributors of content in the world. It does not own production companies and it is not owned by a broadcaster. Until July 2004 Justin was Controller of Interactive Media for Granada plc and previously worked as a producer of comedy, drama and entertainment programmes both at Granada and for other major producers and broadcasters in the UK and US. He won an International Emmy award in 1994.
ITF Courses led by Justin Judd
Making Money from Digital Platforms & Rights…..
Kirsty Hunter
Managing Director (UK), The Project Factory
Multiplatform: How to be a SuperProducer (awaiting new content)
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Kirsty is MD of The Project Factory (UK), an award-winning multiplatform production company delivering content across mobile, online, games, social media and 3D. Formerly Head of Interactive at Lion TV, her credits there included Horrible Histories (BBC), Britain from Above (BBC), Rough Guide (five), Britain’s Best (UKTV), Egypt’s Golden Empire (PBS), History Detectives (PBS), The Hajj (C4), Karbala (C4), Castaway (BBC), Time Commanders (BBC), Castle (C4), and Playing It Straight (C4). She is also a member of Pact’s Interactive Media Policy Group, and a past mentor to the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab.
ITF Courses led by Kirsty Hunter
Multiplatform: How to be a SuperProducer
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Lyndsay Duthie
Executive Producer & Managing Director, Ice Blue Media
Intro to Factual Production Management
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Lyndsay Duthie is an experienced Executive Producer with a host of credits under her belt. Lyndsay was Series Editor of ITV’s flagship talk show Trisha and went on to Series Produce and originate many of her own network programmes ranging from ITV’s Family Feuds, BBC2’s Food and Drink, ITV’s I Want That House and Channel 4’s Best Friends. Lyndsay is now the Managing Director of the TV Indie and training company Ice Blue Media Limited as well.
ITF courses led by Lyndsay Duthie
Intro to Factual Production Management
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Mike Flood Page
Cross-Platform Producer & Trainer
Social Media Skills for Success
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Mike Flood Page is a BAFTA winning cross-platform producer and a committed trainer in social media. He was until recently Editorial Director of Illumina Digital, a full service digital media company which combines interactive design with high TV production values in award-winning projects for the BBC (Waterloo Road Re-united, Who Do You Think You Are?), C4 (Jamie’s Dream School, Breaking the News), Fremantle, ITN, and The National Theatre among others. Previously Mike worked as a Producer on Panorama, Newsnight & Assignment, and as a Commissioner for BBC Learning where he launched Webwise & Computers Don’t Bite. A member and jury member of both BAFTA and the RTS, he is also a visiting lecturer at London’s Goldsmiths College. He is currently engaged in research into convergence, and strategic consultancy for media companies and major public sector organisations.
ITF Courses led by Mike Flood Page
Social Media Skills for Success
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Paul Cable
Account Director, Media and Entertainment
Principles of Production Insurance
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Paul Cable has been arranging entertainment insurance since 1984. He has been involved in setting up the insurances for all the broadcasters in the UK and many independent producers. He has been responsible for providing insurance for many television productions such as Primeval, Merlin and Misfits. On the film front he was involved in The Kings Speech. He covers both short term and annual polices relating to all types of media and also errors and omissions’.
ITF courses led by Paul Cable
run on demand: Principles of Production Insurance
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Pamela Relton
Creative Media Trainer
Connecting with Contributors & Audiences
Generating Innovative Content
Researchers Survival Guide
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Pam Relton is one of the UK’s leading media trainers. A member of the CIPD and a professionally qualified trainer and consultant, her clients include BBC Academy, Indie Training Fund, ITV, Skillset, Endemol and other leading TV companies She also works internationally with professionals in film, scriptwriting, animation and cross platform teams. Pam worked for the BBC for 15 years as a TV researcher and broadcast journalist. Her career in TV has ensured she has wide practical experience of content production, and she draws on this expertise in her training events through the use of stories, analogies and real examples.
ITF Courses led by Pamela Relton
Connecting with Contributors and Audiences
Generating Innovative Content
Researchers Survival Guide……
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Peter Cowley
Founder & CEO, Spirit Digital Media
Multiplatform: Making Money from Digital Platforms & Rights
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Peter Cowley is Founder & CEO of Spirit digital media, a new company he setup in October 2010. Spirit is a commercially driven, dynamic multi-platform content producer that operates in the UK & USA. Previous To Spirit, Peter was MD of Digital Media for Endemol UK and global head of original digital programming at Endemol International. Peter has spent his working career in content (Spirit & Endemol), internet portals & access (Freeserve/Orange), marketing (Videotron/Cable & Wireless) and advertising (BBH)
ITF Courses led by Peter Cowley
Making Money from Digital Platforms & Rights
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Richard Kirstein
Founding Partner of Resilient Music
Making Money from Music
Richard Kirstein, is the founding partner of Resilient Music – a network of specialist consultants who advise brands on music sourcing and purchasing strategy. Resilient collaborates closely with the marketing procurement community, empowering brands to improve both cost and risk management in the music supply chain. Resilient’s clients are predominantly in the fashion and alcoholic beverages sectors.
Prior to Resilient, Richard was Managing Director of Leap Music – a J.V. with ad agency BBH, established in 2003. Leap was the first music publishing company attached to a UK agency. Prior to Leap, Richard was Head of Film, TV and Media at Zomba Music Publishers. Still a keen musician, Richard plays keyboards in Soul To Squeeze.
ITF courses led by Richard Kirstein
Making Money from Music
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Sean Coleman
Director, Red Kingdom
Cross-platform Storytelling
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Sean Coleman is a screenwriter, producer and consultant who specialises in programming for digital platforms and has created original, award-winning content for Bebo, MSN, O2, Sony Pictures International, Fox, Blogbang & Vivendi. At Endemol he recently executive produced the online sci-fi drama Kirill for MSN, and the returning series of an international web commissioned drama Cell which is now available in 10 languages. Sean also created and executive produced The Gap Year for Bebo.com.
ITF Courses led by Sean Coleman
Cross-platform Storytelling
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Susan Ahern
Training Director, Creative People
Dealing with Difficult People
Diversity: Putting the Pledge into Action
Managing People for the First Time
Recruitment: Interviewing Skills for TV Producers & Managers
Reviewing your Career Options: A Workshop for Women Returning to Work in TV
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Sue Ahern, Creative People: Sue worked for the BBC as a producer in network radio and TV production, becoming Senior Training Manager for Radio, responsible for the management and design of journalistic, technical and creative training. After the BBC she worked in independent TV and radio, advertising, press and other media related businesses. Sue joined Creative People in 1995. She specialises in helping individuals to realise their potential.
ITF Courses led by Susan Ahern
Dealing with Difficult People
Reviewing Career Options: A Workshop for Women Returning to Work in TV
Diversity: Putting the Pledge into Action
Managing People for the First Time
Recruitment: Attracting/Selecting Right Talent
Recruitment: Interviewing Skills…..
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