Trustees

Carine Hejazi
(she/her)
Carine (she/her) is the Investment Manager at Fourth Culture Films, where she is in charge of sourcing, evaluating, and pricing projects across film and TV. A lifelong cinephile, she spent 10 years in Capital Markets before attending the NFTS for her MA and switching careers to film. Hailing from a multi-cultural background, Carine is passionate about championing diverse voices.

Mariayah Kaderbhai
(she/her)
Mariayah Kaderbhai is a screen-sector strategist, producer and curator, and the former Head of Programmes at BAFTA. Across more than two decades she has produced and hosted hundreds of long-form, in-depth conversations with leading filmmakers and performers including Penélope Cruz, Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman, Meera Syal, Riz Ahmed, Ryan Coogler and Spike Lee, and authored BAFTA’s social mobility report Invisible Barriers.

Sophie Doherty
(she/her)
Sophie (she/her) is a theatrical film distribution & exhibition programming specialist in the UK & Ireland, now Heading of Theatrical Film for Signature Entertainment. She co-led the Walt Disney Company’s first official Pride group supporting staff and promoting diversity & inclusion in the public space and is alumni of the inaugural Filmonomics Future Leaders in Distribution and Inside Pictures 2017.

Yaw Basoah
(he/him)
Yaw Basoah (he/him) established Dark Pictures to produce bold, distinctive, and uncompromising work that explores the dark side of human nature, working across film, television, and the visual arts, with emerging, established, and world-renowned writers, filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists, predominantly from underrepresented backgrounds.

Fozia O'Dowd (Treasurer)
(she/her)
Fozia (she/her) is an award-winning Producer, former Production Accountant, and founder of Public Display of Affection Films, an emerging Film and TV production company with projects in development with the BFI and Sky Drama across Film and TV. Fozia is an alumna of Reclaim The Frame's Filmonomics Programme.

Rebecca del Tufo
(she/her)
Rebecca del Tufo (she/her) is a film producer, programmer and freelancer, whose work covers exhibition, distribution and production. Rebecca co-founded and co-runs ScreenCraft Works, a not-for-profit which supports under-represented production and post-production talent worldwide with cross-border mentoring, talks and networking, and is a trustee of Refugees at Home.

Stephanie Hayward
(she/her)
Stephanie (she/her) is a barrister with a decade's experience practising criminal law. As an organiser, Stephanie leads the Behind the Gown campaign - an organisation founded in 2017 by a group of barristers committed to tackling harassment and abuse of power at the Bar.

Holly Tarquini
(she/her)
Holly Tarquini is a producer, business coach and creative facilitator with a background in documentary and film exhibition. She worked as a producer director on documentaries for over a decade, ran Bath Film Festival for twelve years and founded the F-Rating in 2014 to champion women in film. Holly now works as a business coach, consultant and producer.

Sam Joly
(she/her)
Sam Joly is Head of Strategy at Industria Studios, building new partnerships and helping to produce their original slate of film and television. She previously ran marketing and publicity at See-Saw Films, where she was responsible for defining the global marketing and publicity vision across the company and its projects, sales arm Cross City Films, and production labels.

Valeria Bullo (Chair)
(she/her)
Valeria Bullo (she/her) is an accomplished Production Wellbeing and Inclusion Consultant. As former Production Executive at Pathe Productions, Valeria worked on SELMA, SUFFRAGETTE and VICEROY’S HOUSE. During her tenure at the Film and TV Charity, she created the first-of-its-kind toolkit for mentally healthy productions as part of the Whole Picture programme.