Writer, Director, Executive Producer
Sheherazade Bodin
Sheherazade started her own theater company, back in France, when she was fifteen. She decided to pursue her career in the film industry, and move to London. She directed her first project in 2021, “White Bred Blues'', an experimental music video for the band Ralph of London, for which she met with Mark, who lived in the streets of Bristol for over twenty years of his life. Thinking that it wasn’t enough, she decided to use all the footage she had to develop a feature documentary about Mark’s life story, hoping to make a change on the homelessness situation in Bristol. The project is now in post-production and will be produced by Blue Metaphor Ltd, Sheherazade’s recently opened independent production company.
Director of Photography
emma vickers
Emma Vickers is a lighting camerawoman with over 20 years experience in the industry across drama and observational documentary making. The diversity of her work includes drama, short films, broadcast, public sector, corporate, and multi-platform content generation. She has worked on programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV as well as promotional films for clients such as Google, Universal Music Group and Sainsbury’s. As a filmmaker, she has filmed with BME communities and co-created online content for the NHS with patient groups. She has a background in educational programme making and has extensive experience filming with young children for Early Years. More recently she shot a series for CBeebies encouraging young girls into Engineering.
First Assistant Director
jack hockaday
Jack is a working-class filmmaker who specializes in micro-budget productions. He studied for his bachelor's degree in Film at Bournemouth University, where he specialized in directing, production management and sound design. Jack has worked on upwards of forty films, five of which he has directed, six of which he has produced and is currently in pre-production for his feature film directorial debut. He currently works full-time as a Media Instructor at a prestigious Hampshire college while working freelance as a videographer in his spare time.

Producer / BTS Photographer
Gabriele Zukauskaite
Gabriele is a Lithuanian born medical anthropologist with permanent interest in photography and cinema. The past decade of her life has been defined by continuous movement through different places, encompassing travels in mountainous Caucasus, conducting research in Bosnia and Lebanon, and seeking for higher education in Scotland. Not being fixed in life, but continuously moving is what has recently brought Gabriele to Bristol, a place to focus entirely on embedding her knowledge and experience within the field of visual arts. As a highly curious person, she finds joy in gathering experience and reinventing herself every morning, - by not being a noun, but being a verb. Moving through life, instead of becoming fixed. Her curiosity is mostly triggered around the intersection of cinema, photography, ethnographic research, and creative ways to portray lived experience, which is where she finds herself at this special moment in her journey.
Composer
ralph of london
Ralph Of London is a shit-pop double act originating in East London, currently based in the North Of France. Ralph started putting out music in 2016 and playing shows in the UK and Europe with a rotating cast of musicians. before homogenising his repertoire into a two piece with Diane in late 2022. The duo started their own label in 2019 and
released their first official single "Hopeless Melody" in May 2019, followed by "Worlds End" in February 2020, which was the first song to feature the voice of Diane. In June 2020 they released "Dotty" as the last single from the album "The Potato Kingdom ''. Their latest EP "Yellow Sky Highway" was released in March 2022 and featured the singles "White Bred Blues" and "Flowers Of Edo". The EP was launched alongside an online video game through which the audience was invited to play to win free downloads of the songs.
Ralph Of London's music spawned from the sub-genre infused British Pop undercurrent. Their sound is a compound of synthesised Rock and Roll, West African polyrhythm and English Folk tradition, fused into melodic pop of a sub romantic lyrical narrative that glances in on our fragmented social milieu from the sidelines, bringing together an unconventional sonic tapestry delivered with sincerity whilst definitely maintaining a touch of introspection and self derision.
Sound Mixer and Boom Operator
bernardo moreira
Bernardo is a sound mixer, editor, designer and dubbing mixer based in Bristol with four years of experience in dialogue, foley and sound effects recording, editing and mixing.
From a very young age, he realised that music felt natural and intuitive, teaching himself every instrument he could reach.
In his late teens, he started playing the drums and formed a band with a couple of friends with whom he toured their home country, Portugal, for four years.
Bernardo’s curiosity about music technology led him to study sound engineering, where he discovered sound in the context of film and subsequently embarked on a bachelor's degree in sound for film & tv from Plymouth Marjon University.
The experience acquired working as Head of the Sound Department in various film productions grew his desire to become a dubbing mixer.
Having the privilege of being involved in all stages of various productions, allows him the possibility to broaden his understanding of what a project needs and how to achieve it.
Production Designer
maria martinez
​Born and raised in Portugal, Maria is currently studying Fine Art at the University of the West of England (UWE). With a background in both Classical Music and Contemporary Dance, her artistic journey has been diverse and multifaceted. As a performer herself, Maria understood how important costumes are to enhance the overall effect of a performance. It is for this reason that she now focuses on costume-making in the context of theatre, circus and cinema. Her work is a unique combination of her past experiences and explores the boundaries of traditional performance art.
Production Designer Assistant
alex law
Since Alex was young she has had an interest in sewing her own clothes, upcycling and reimagining a range of textile based items. She has a strong belief in aiming to be as sustainable as possible. Alex is currently studying for a Level 3 Diploma in Fashion and Textiles; this is enabling her to develop and extend her creative and technical skills. Through this she has been fortunate enough to have had work experience in a short film, within the Art Department. For Alex this has brought a renewed love for film and theatre costumes, an increasing knowledge of creative construction skills, as well as the enjoyment of being part of the film-making process.

Art Department Assistant
alexa miller
Alexa has created in some way for her whole life. She has studied human centric design through interior architecture. The creative process is where her passion lies and working in collaboration with different designers. Over the past 10 years she has been part of lots of projects for friends and other artists. Assisting the art department on this film will be the first time she will involved from the start to finish and she hopes to learn everything she can and work in art departments in the future.

Production Assistant
Rachel Lily
Rachel started out with a love of people and stories, inspiring her to study journalism and become involved with community activism. She has since worked across a range of media-related roles in a number of different sectors, photographing, video editing and producing her way through smaller, human-centered digital productions. With events and festival production part of her trade, she is passionate about logistics and facilitating creative magic, now looking to apply her skills in drama and documentary film projects. She is best known in Bristol for her work on the Outlaws Community Centre campaign and is often seen at the frontline of campaigns related to workers’ rights.
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First Assistant Camera
jonathan main
Jonathan Main was born in Bristol but grew up in south Wales. He is currently studying Film and Television at the University of Bristol.
He has always been creative first through creating experimental electronic music, digital art and then photography. This accumulated to an interest in filmmaking because of its position at the intersection of many different creative disciplines.
Narrowing his interest to cinematography has led him to write, direct, and shoot two short films with emphasis on visual storytelling and volunteer himself for camera roles on multiple short films to gain experience with a career in the arts in mind.
Runner
rowan wallace
Rowan Wallace is a filmmaker student based in Bristol ,UK. He has now just finished his second year of three at Boomsatsuma's BA ( Hons ) Filmmaking production degree course based in Bristol. Boomsatuma university has allowed Rowan to discover a wide range of roles in the Film and TV industry from creating multiple short films where he has been able to adopt the role of : Boom op, Editor, BTS Videographer, Camera op, 2nd AC, production manager and script writer. Through work experience he has been able to move into the pathway of working as a 2nd AC and he is now in the progress of finding out more about this role and hoping to provide himself and his own personal equipment to help assist productions over the summer of 2023 to continue work as a 2nd AC. As well as having more work to do over summer behind the camera he has signed up with a casting agency to be an extra for film and TV in front of the camera.