Jonathan Brown

After a successful career as a chef and restauranteur spanning over a decade, Jonathan G. Brown took the opportunity to swap his kitchen knives for make-up brushes and completed a theatrical make-up and prosthetics course at Pinewood Studios, London. He later spent 18 months working in various roles on student short films before working freelance on professional productions as part of the production team for the BBC, Yorkshire Television and on Independent Features. Jonathan is the founder and managing director of the Yorkshire-based production company Silver Cloud Television Limited. He started the company in 2001 and produced an episode of “Cook in the Castle” for UKFood and the short film “Lucky Bugger” before co-producing “Does God Play Football” in 2002. “Lucky Bugger” has enjoyed success in over 30 festivals worldwide, being nominated for an audience award at the Philadelphia film festival 2002 and a Highly Commended certificate by Turner Classic Shorts 2002 He has recently line-produced the short films “What I Want To Be When I Grow Up” and “Night Train” for Screen Yorkshire and the Film Council as part of the Digital Shorts Scheme. Matthew Fox was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and at the Northern Film School. He wrote the script for the short film, “The Bitterest Pill,” which was made by students at the school and has recently been shown on Yorkshire Television as well as numerous festivals throughout the country. Before coming to Leeds to study screenwriting, Matthew worked as Assistant Director and Script Editor for the Grassmarket Project Theatre Company on their Fringe First award-winning play, “20-52” (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1995). He also collaborated with Aaron Hicklin on the non-fiction book “Boy Soldiers” (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1995). “Lucky Bugger” was Matthews first short film as writer and director, which was shot in April 2001. He is currently teaching scriptwriting at the Northern Film School in Leeds and has recently completed his second short entitled “Postcard.”