Screen Yorkshire Board Members

Steve Abbott (Chair)
Born and raised in Bradford, Steve has spent most of his career working in film and TV with members of the Monty Python team. Steve's producing credits include A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures and Brassed off whilst his company, Prominent Features, has won awards and festival prizes throughout the world, including an Oscar, a Cesar and several BAFTAs. He was recently Executive Producer on Michael Palin's New Europe TV travel series which was on BBC1 in autumn 2007.

John Surtees
John is Director of Site Services for ITV in Leeds and Manchester and Chairman of 3sixtymedia, an ITV/BBC joint venture operating studios and post production. Previous roles within ITV include news operations, Controller of Production (YTV), Director of Resources (North) and MD of Provision.
Cameron McCracken
Cameron McCracken is Managing Director of Pathe UK. He is a member of the British Screen Advisory Council and has co-produced
or executive produced over 20 films including: Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Queen.
Charles Cecil
Charles is Managing Director of Revolution Software, Europe's leading developer of narrative driven video games. Responsible for writing a string of hugely successful adventure games including Broken Sword, the company has also developed games based on major TV and film franchises.
Bill Lawrence
Bill is Creative Director at the Showroom and Workstation in Sheffield, one of the UK's leading independent cinemas and base for many successful companies in the creative industries. He was the Head of Film at the National Media Museum in Bradford until April 2008, where over 16 years he developed the film delivery to include Bradford Film Festival in 1995, as well as the Bradford Animation Festival from 1994 and the Bite the Mango Film Festival (the largest Black and Asian film festival in Europe) from 1995. He is also on the partnership board for Bradford City of Film and a director of York Film Trust.
Steve Hewlett
Steve currently works as a broadcasting consultant, with clients including Ofcom, DCMS, Channel 4 and BSkyB. He is a Guardian columnist and also runs Big Pictures Ltd, a television production company with commissions from Channel 4, the BBC and the PBS Network in the USA. Previously held positions include Head of Factual Programmes at Channel 4 and Managing Director of Carlton Productions, as well as being a former editor of Panorama and BBC One documentary strand, Inside Story.
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Jonathan Kingsbury
Jon Kingsbury runs the Creative Economy Innovation Programme at NESTA, with a remit to encourage growth in creative businesses by developing successful models for innovation. He previously worked at the BBC as Head of External Supply, Future Media & Technology where his role was to improve the organisation's engagement with external creative suppliers. Before becoming interested in driving creative business growth, Jon held a number of senior editorial commissioning roles at the BBC and Channel 4, always in the space where linear TV broadcasting meets interactive content.

john-godber John Godber
John Godber is a writer whose theatre career has been littered with awards. In 1984 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Up N Under', and has been nominated a further three times since. His play ‘Bouncers' played in L.A for two years and won seven L.A.Theatre Critics Awards. He has written over fifty full length stage plays as well as adaptations and children's plays. He is currently Professor of Drama at Hull University and Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Liverpool Hope University, as well as Chairman of Visit Hull and East Yorkshire. John has the distinction of being one of the most performed writers in the English language.

Yorkshire Games Facts

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Yorkshire and Humber is home to four of the World's Top 100 best
performing studios (Source: Develop 100, 2007)

• 35 Yorkshire and Humber companies are involved with the global games industry

• Nearly 10% of the UK's development workforce are employed in Yorkshire and Humber

• Yorkshire and Humber produces 3% of the UK's output in terms of games across multiple platforms

• Half of the region's universities offer undergraduate and postgraduate studies in video game development.