Board

Lord Michael Bichard KCB, Film Club Chair

Michael Bichard has worked throughout his career in the public sector; in local and central government.

Lord Michael received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1999. In 2001 he left the Civil Service and has since been chair or director on a number of boards, including: University of the Arts London, Legal Services Commission, Design Council and Institute for Government.

In May 2004. In January 2004 he was appointed by the Home Office to chair the Soham/Bichard Inquiry.

Beeban Kidron, FILMCLUB Deputy Chair

Beeban Kidron is a film director who started out taking photos at 11 and was 'discovered' aged 13 by Magnum photographer Eve Arnold. Her work has attracted many awards including, The Prix Italia, several British Academy awards, A Golden Hugo, Critics Choice at Critiel, The Lillian Gish award and RTS awards.

She recently produced and directed the yourgreenham.co.uk website for The Guardian Newspaper which was an official honoree at the 2008 Webby Awards and is the co-founder of FILMCLUB.

Beeban's films include:

Hippie Hippie Shake, Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason, Murder

Cinderella, Swept From The Sea, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, Great Moments in Aviation, Used People, Antonia and Jane, Vroom, Alex.

Documentaries

Eve Arnold - A Portrait, Love At First Sight, Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and their Johns, Global Gamble, Carry Greenham Home.

TV

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Itch

Michael Harris, FILMCLUB Treasurer

Michael Harris has over 25 years experience as a management consultant to the media industry. He is Treasurer if both BAFTA and Comic Relief. Current and former clients include The British Film Commission, Skillset National Training Organisation, The Film Council, Education Recording Agency and the Producers Rights Agency as well as many other film and television clients.

Lindsay Mackie

Lindsay Mackie has specialised in setting up extra curricular programmes in schools. She set up the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award for Young People in Schools across the UK, taking it into 2000 schools within four years. She is now a trustee of the Diana Award.

Working with Education Extra, she set up 300 reading clubs across the UK, promoting reading for pleasure in secondary schools. The clubs proved successful and popular and resulted in raising reading standards and increased enjoyment of learning. Working with The Guardian Newsroom, the educational side of the Guardian newspaper, she has established teachers' seminars in current affairs and literature, which are popular and influential. A former journalist, she chairs the Readers and Writers group at English PEN.

Her interest in film and cinema comes from her own passionate film going, and from the belief that story and film go hand in hand in strengthening and enriching young people's understanding, concentration and emotional development. She is the co-founder of FILMCLUB

John Woodward

John Woodward was the first Chief Executive of the Film Council in 1999 and set up the UK's lead strategic body for film. He has an extensive track record in heading up other film and television industry organisations.

These include: the British Film Institute, Producer's Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), Skillset. He ran the "25 per % campaign" forcing the BBC and ITV to buy 25 % of their programmes from independent producers. Also successfully lobbying for the introduction of tax breaks for film production investment and the introduction of Lottery funding for film.

He is also a fellow of the Royal Television Society and a member of the Video Consultative Council of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor is Managing Director of Sony Pictures UK. He was previously managing director UK and Ireland of Warner Bros. Pictures UK, a position held since he left his post as director of distribution at Columbia Pictures in 2004. Taylor is a 25 year veteran of the UK film industry. He first worked for Columbia in 1982 as a sales executive.

Eric Fellner

Eric Fellner is co-chairman of Working Title Films. He has the distinction of having produced or executive produced three consecutive nominees for the Academy Award for best picture.

The company's work with directors working outside the Hollywood system both in the US and Britain made it a role model in the 90s and is now Britain's largest independent production company with offices in London and Los Angeles.

Before this, Eric founded the Initial Pictures company with partner Scott Millaney in 1985 which produced Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell as well as Pascali's Island and executive produced A Kiss Before Dying and Year of the Gun.

Among the films he has produced or executive produced are: Moonlight, Valentino, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Dead Man walking, Fargo, Notting Hill, United 93 and Bridget Jones's Diary. He began his career for Zoetrope, a music video production company where he produced videos for Duran Duran, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Rod Stewart, among others.

Alan Parker

Alan Parker is Chairman of the Brunswick Group LLP, the leading international corporate and financial communications firm which he founded in 1987. Since then, Brunswick has grown organically into an international firm of more than 50 partners with offices in London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Beijing, Johannesburg, Brussels, Berlin, Stockholm and Washington. Brunswick is ranked first in the league tables for M&A communications advisers in the UK, EU and US and has advised on many of the largest cross-border transactions in recent years. Alan has worked on a wide range of assignments, acts as senior consultant on many of the firm's retained accounts and takes an active role in special project work