Barrington is an Ethical Producer across HETV and Film. He worked on Emmy award-winning, BAFTA-nominated BBC drama The Responder series 1 and 2, A Town Called Malice for Sky and Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows. Based in Liverpool he is the co-founder of the BFI Creative Producer Lab, the UK’s longest running producer programme.

Barrington is alumni of Broadcast Hotshots, BAFTA Elevate, BFI Insight, Screen International Star of Tomorrow and he is founder of his production company Redbag Pictures. He plans to continue finding talent and sharing stories, inspired by the past and powered by the future…. Redbag Pictures - we ain't done yet!

As Chief Executive of Screen Yorkshire, Caroline champions the film, TV and wider screen industries in Yorkshire and the Humber and provides leadership to a talented team of industry experts who deliver skills and talent development, production support and content investment.

Caroline’s 25-year career within the screen industries has evolved from running her first production company with acclaimed music video director Dawn Shadforth to her previous role as Head of Creative at Screen Yorkshire. Along this journey she has spent time as Talent Development Executive for Scottish Film Talent Network, Head of Film at Creative England, Head of Creative Development at Warp X, managed the UK Film Council’s nationwide short film programme through her company Lifesize Pictures and spent a year as Director of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.

Kevin Sampson is an award-winning screenwriter (ANNE, THE HUNT FOR RAOUL MOAT), film producer (GIANT, AWAYDAYS) and novelist (THE KILLING POOL, STARS ARE STARS) based in Merseyside, UK.

Mobeen has produced and presented across BBC flagship platforms for more than 20 years and is a BAFTA, Grierson, Amnesty International, Broadcast and Royal Television Society award winner.

He has created longform podcast series for BBC Sounds, Spotify and Audible including: Fatwa; Hometown: A Killing; Lives Less Ordinary; The Kanye Story and Catching the Kingpins, which featured on BBC Sounds’ ‘Best of 2024’ list. Mobeen also hosts the BBC World Service strand, Outlook.

Mobeen has produced and presented numerous narrative television documentaries and multi-part series across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three including: Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop; Secrets of an ISIS Smartphone; The Battle for Britney: Fans, Cash and a Conservatorship; Hometown: A Killing; A Black and White Killing: The Case That Shook America and The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On, as well as multiple editions of flagship current affairs series Panorama.

In recent years he has also made programmes with BBC Studios, Vice Studios, Expectation, Mentorn and ITN Productions. Mobeen is a regular host on BBC 5Live and the BBC World Service.

Rebecca Hodgson is the Executive Producer of This City is Ours. She joined Left Bank Pictures in September 2023, where her credits as EP also include The Lady for ITV and Britbox and Dear England for BBC1.

Rebecca started her career as a journalist at Screen International. She is an award-winning producer with recent credits including ARCHIE for Etta and ITVX, RTS award winning SHERWOOD for House and BBC1, THE IRREGULARS for Drama Republic and Netflix and DEEP WATER for Kudos and ITV. Earlier credits include VINCENT, WIRED and THE GIRLS WHO CAME TO STAY, STOLEN, WE'LL TAKE MANHATTAN, THE ROAD TO CORONATION STREET, BAFTA winner for Best Single Drama, GOOD COP, RTS winner for Best Drama Series, and FREE REIN for Netflix, which won two Emmys.

Los Angeles-based Stuart Ford is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AGC Studios and one of the most experienced and prolific independent film and television producers, financiers and entrepreneurs in the global entertainment industry. UK born and Oxford University educated, Ford is a former entertainment attorney and Miramax Films senior studio executive who in 2007 founded IM Global. Over the following decade, he built IM Global into one of the industry’s leading independent production, financing and international sales platforms with additional talent management and PR businesses across North America, Southeast Asia, India, Latin America and Europe.

In 2018, Ford launched the so-called “super-indie” AGC Studios, an independent content studio with major backing from Silicon Valley, Abu Dhabi and Latin America that develops, finances, produces and sells a diverse slate of feature films and scripted, unscripted and factual television. Since its inception, AGC has been involved in over 50 major productions. Ford’s AGC Television label has quickly become a major player in high-end scripted content, including the recent epic series “Those About to Die,” with a first-season budget of $165 million - one of the largest independently financed TV productions in history.

As a producer and financier Ford has worked with a huge array of leading directors such as Martin Scorsese, Gary Ross, Mel Gibson, Ron Howard, Doug Liman, Neil Burger, James Wan, Scott Derrickson, Roland Emmerich, Tom Ford and Richard Linklater. Across his career, he has produced or executive produced nearly eighty films and television shows and has assembled in excess of $2 billion in independent production financing from North America, India, China, Latin America and the Middle East.

Ford received Variety’s Achievement in International Film Award in 2015 and was named one of The Guardian’s 50 Most Influential People in Global Cinema. In 2023, he was honored at the Cannes Film Festival with Variety’s “Billion Dollar Producer” award. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and BAFTA, and has been profiled in the Variety 500 in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Tony Schumacher had one dream when he was a kid, and that was to be a writer.  Instead of becoming a writer he bombed out of school aged 16 with no qualifications and a sigh of relief.

He worked his way around the world as a roofer, a jeweller, a bouncer, a barman, a binman, and on-board cruise ships selling underpants, before eventually returning to Liverpool to become a response policeman dealing with 999 jobs morning, noon and nights.

Eleven years later, after a breakdown and a period of homelessness, he found himself driving a taxi around the night-time streets of Liverpool.  That was when he remembered his dream and finally started to write.

His first three novels were published by HarperCollins in the USA, and since then he has been mentored by Jimmy McGovern as part of the ScreenSkills High End TV Writers Bursary Scheme (2018) and been invited to join the BBC Writersroom Northern Voices Scheme. The Responder series and The Cage are his creations.