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Based in the North West of England, Anthony describes his passion for writing as a ‘hobby that got out of control’ after he was selected for the New Writing North Significant Ink development programme and reached the finals of the BBC Drama Room scheme in 2017.

Since then, Anthony’s work has been selected by numerous screenwriting contests and film festivals across the globe, reaching the finals of the Nantucket Film Festival - Tony Cox Screenplay Competition and the Fresh Voices Competition in 2020. He was also a semifinalist at the 5th Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards, the 2018 ScreenCraft Shorts Competition, and selected for the 2019 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition.

Anthony writes for TV, radio and film, and co-produced his debut short film in 2019. He is currently script consulting on a film project, and working on a conspiracy thriller.

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Maryam Ghorbankarimi is born and raised in Iran in a filmmaking family. Maryam is a filmmaker and film scholar and she is currently a lecturer in film practice at Lancaster University, UK. Maryam has many years of experience as director and producer of short films and has worked professionally as an editor for 20 years on both short and long format films.

She has completed her PhD in film studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and her dissertation was published as a book entitled A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women’s Representation in Iranian Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). Her current research is on transnational cinemas and cultures, specifically the representation of gender and sexuality in Iranian cinema. Her forthcoming edited volume on seminal Iranian female filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, ReFocus: The Works of Rakhshan Banietemad will be published in spring 2021 (Edinburgh University Press).