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Claire Aguilar United States

The Independent Television Service (ITVS) funds, presents, and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television and cable, innovative new media projects on the Web, and the Emmy Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens Monday nights at 10:00 PM on PBS. ITVS International is a division of the Independent Television Service that runs the Global Perspectives Project (GPP), an international exchange of documentary films made by independent producers, bringing international voices to U.S. audiences and American stories to audiences abroad.

Website:
www.itvs.org
Claire Aguilar
ITVS - Independent Television Service
Executive Content Advisor 
Profession
Broadcaster
Bio

Claire Aguilar is Executive Content Advisor at the Independent Television Service (ITVS), which funds, promotes and distributes independently produced programming to public media. She advises on content strategy and recommendations and oversees international documentary funding. She has commissioned programming from the global community of independent producers and is curator of Independent Lens, the PBS prime-time series of independently produced programming. Claire has served as programming consultant and panelist for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA, the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and many other media and funding organizations. She has led and participated in film juries for IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Silverdocs and Visions du R_©el. A second-generation Filipina American, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies and a Master of Arts in Film and Television Studies from UCLA. She serves on the boards of Women Make Movies, STEPS International and the EURODOC Steering Committee.

Kingston Anderson Australia

The ADG works to promote excellence in screen direction, to encourage communication and collaboration between directors and others in the industry, and to provide professional support for its members.

The ADG membership includes directors of feature films, television, documentary, animation, commercials, shorts and digital media as well as assistant directors and like minded industry partners.

Website:
www.adg.org.au
Kingston Anderson
Australian Directors Guild
Executive Director 
Profession
Director
Bio

Kingston is a graduate of the University of NSW, National Institute of Dramatic Art and the Australian Film Television & Radio School. He has directed in theatre and produced numerous documentaries and a TV movie. He's worked in policy and production for many years including as Film Commissioner for NSW and the Manager of the Production Liaison Unit for the NSW Film & Television Office (now Screen NSW)

Ewan Angus United Kingdom

BBC Scotland is the main public service broadcaster serving Scottish audiences through television, radio and online.  It produces a range of TV programmes for BBC One Scotland and BBC Two Scotland as well as for the BBC's UK network services.

Content Requirements

There is an absolute requirement for some discernible Scottish dimension to any project.  That aside, factual programmes range from observational documentary to specialist factual, particularly history, and the arts.  This includes series, singles and feature docs. 

Looking For

Open to projects on a diverse range of subjects in whatever broadcast configuration is most appropriate.

Website:
www.bbc.co.uk/scotland
Ewan Angus
BBC Scotland
TV Commissioning Editor 
Profession
Broadcaster
Bio

Ewan Angus, Commissioning Editor Television at BBC Scotland has worked in broadcasting for more than 25 years, across a wide range of programmes for BBC Scotland and the BBC's UK network services. He is responsible for all television output produced for Scottish audiences. This amounts to over 1000 hours a year and an increasing proportion is co-commissioned with BBC network for a UK wide transmission. In the last ten years BBC Scotland has been involved in factual co-productions with ABC, SBS and the History Channel, working with a number of Australian independent production companies.