Screen Yorkshire Board Members

Screen Yorkshire is currently going through a transition phase and will be announcing new Board Members soon.

 

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.

MADE IN YORKSHIREScreen Yorkshire Investments

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Screen Yorkshire has invested in TV and film production for the past decade. Some of our most high profile investments in content production include: Red Riding, Tyrannosaur, Wuthering Heights, Kill List, This is England '86, A Passionate Woman, The Damned United, Unforgiven, Lost in Austen, The Cottage, Brideshead Revisited, Hush, This is England, The Bad Mother's Handbook, Bunny and the Bull, Exhibit A, Yasmin and Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution. We've also invested in video game production such as Broken Sword.

Find out more about our recent production investments, where they were filmed and some of the stunning locations that help to make our region one of the most desirable destinations for film and television production companies in the UK.