Directors

Joseph Curran & Dominic Aubrey de Vere met whilst working at an independent cinema, where they quickly bonded over their mutual love of storytelling.

A Story of Bones, their first feature doc, is funded by BFI/Doc Society and Archers Mark, and premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. The film was long listed for Best Feature Documentary and Best Debut Feature by BIFA, as well as Best Feature Documentary by IDA.

Producer

Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo started her media career in the publishing industry before moving into film and television. Producing credits include SHOOT THE MESSENGER starring David Oyelowo and Daniel Kaluuya; FREE FALL starring Riz Ahmed and Dominic Cooper, GUERRILLA, a 6-part series written by 12 YEARS A SLAVE Oscar winner John Ridley and starring Idris Elba and TOP BOY, the ten-part series for Netflix with Drake as one of the Executive Producers.

Impact Producer

Annina Van Neel is the founder and Executive Director of the Tiekie Box Project (Tiekie), a conservation and educational platform for African descendant communities protecting burial grounds connected to the slave trade and slavery. Growing up in post-apartheid Namibia and working as an Environmental Officer on the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Annina experienced firsthand the dehumanization and isolation that comes from institutionalized racism and the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Annina lives on Saint Helena island with her two sons and partner, working part-time at the Equality and Human Rights Commission of Saint Helena as the Chair and Lead in Cultural Rights. Passionate about raising awareness on racial injustices in heritage conservation, she dedicates her personal time as the Impact Producer and lead participant of the feature length documentary A STORY OF BONES.

Consulting Producer

Peggy King Jorde is a Cultural Projects Consultant combining more than 30 years of experience in planning, architecture, public art, and historic preservation projects in New York City and beyond. King Jorde served under three NYC mayors, including the Honorable David N. Dinkins, providing comprehensive oversight of all capital construction projects specific to New York’s cultural landmarks, public art, and art museums. In 1990, King Jorde was thrust into the limelight as a pivotal figure in the fight to protect a 17th century African Burial Ground that was rediscovered during the construction of a federal office building. Under her leadership, King Jorde as project director & contractor to a federal agency, developed and led the nationwide architectural design competitions for the African Burial Ground National Memorial and Interpretive Center. After participating in A STORY OF BONES, Peggy continues to work alongside Annina to advocate on behalf of the Saint Helenian community for the proper reburial and memorialization.

Executive Producer

Lisa Marie is a filmmaker and producer, and has led three UK Funds. She works in docs, fiction and animation, and her films have shown globally at A-list festivals, in cinemas, and on TV and streamers. She led the BFI Doc Society Fund from 2018 - '21, then acted as consultant on select titles. Awards for films, which she has executive produced include: Is There Anybody Out There?, 2023 (Sundance World Cinema Doc Competition), Nothing Compares, 2022 (Sundance, two BIFAs, PGA nomination, Showtime), A Bunch of Amateurs, 2022 (Sheffield Doc Fest Audience Award, BBC Storyville), Rebellion, 2021 (BAFTA debut nomination, Netflix), Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche, 2021 (two BIFAs), Locked In, 2020 (BAFTA, Grierson Award, BBC Storyville) and the shorts The Nightrcrawlers, 2019 (Emmy, Nat Geo) and The Black Cop, 2021 (BAFTA Short Film, Guardian Documentaries). She has EP'ed over twenty animation shorts, and was BAFTA nominated for The Tale of the Rat that Wrote in 1998, which she produced.

Editor

Freelance Offline Film Editor (and sporadic Director) with a passion for motion pictures, Blues, justice, prolificarios, Harold Pinter, non-fiction, archive, Japanese death-match wrestling, sound, sushi, slurpees and Space.

Originally from the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada, I've been making films since I was fourteen, and now reside on the south coast of England in Brighton.

Distinctions

‘How To Change The World’

★ Sundance Special Jury Award for Editing in World Cinema Documentary

★ Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Feature Length Documentary

Edit Assistant

After starting her post-production career at BBC Birmingham, Candice Bowers worked internationally as a DIT and location editor on highly acclaimed factual entertainment, such as ITV’s, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, Discovery Channels, Gold Rush and Channel 4’s adventure series, Escape. Candice spent the last 8 years traveling the world working in extreme environments, from the jungles of Panama to sailing the Arctic seas filming Polar Bears for the Disney Channel.

Now, after years on the road, Candice has returned to her original passion – observational documentaries. Editing engaging human-interest stories from across the globe. Her recent work in the humanitarian and environmental sectors along with her years of experience in broadcast television preparing her for the world of feature films.

Consulting Editor

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Member and Internationally renowned Film Editor, Story Editor, Creative/Editorial Consultant, Ricardo Acosta has been working in the film industry for over 25 years. He has been awarded with an Emmy, and has been nominated several times to Genie, Gemini, CCE and CS Awards

Ricardo came to Canada from his native Cuba in 1993, where he studied and worked at the world-renowned Cuban Film Institute in Havana.

He' s been a fellow of the Sundance Institute (as alumnus, teacher and Adviser) several years for the Documentary Editing and Story Lab and The Composer and Sound Design Lab.

His outstanding work and keen sense of the human condition has contributed to the making of several award-winning and award-nominated films that have premiered in several world film festival

Composer

Bankey Ojo is a composer and sound designer creating expressive and modern soundscapes for exciting, award winning media productions ranging from broadcast television and independent films through to animation, commercials and branded content. His score credits include the Sky Living series Venus vs. Mars; Borderlands – part of the Channel 4 Random Acts strand; the award-winning short film Twiddly Things; and branded content for clients such as Adidas, Puma, VICE, Jaguar and SCHUH.

Sound Recordist

Oliver Sanders is an award winning location sound recordist, audio producer, sound designer and editor specialising in non-fiction storytelling.

His first project was as the sound recordist on the feature length documentary A Story Of Bones. A film chronicling the efforts to memorialise the “the most significant physical trace of the middle passage of the trans-atlantic slave trade” in Rupert's Valley on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, spending over a year and a half recording with the island community.

He has gone on to work with multiple charities and award winning production companies as a recordist, audio producer and sound designer.

Recent work includes the Audio Production Awards winner Tape Letters, ARIA 2023 Nominee The Second Elizabethan Age and Iron To Iron leading the sound design and production on all.

Impact Producer

Khadija J. Khan is the Engagement Manager at Doc Society, where she works across programs to host impact events, employ strategic communications, and build connections with filmmakers globally. Khadija is a published author, retired activist, and passionate producer who has made both nonfiction and narrative shorts in Cape Town, SA, Washington, DC and London, UK. She holds a Msc in Empires, Colonialism, & Globalisation from LSE and a BA in Justice & Peace Studies from Georgetown.

Impact Strategist

K Biswas is a critic and essayist who has written for the New Statesman, New York Times, The Nation, and the Times Literary Supplement on everything from populism to the politics of grime music. In 2019, he founded The Race Beat, a network for journalists of colour working in the UK, and is the Director of Resonance FM, and the editor of Representology: The Journal of Media and Diversity.