Adam J Merrifield established White Lantern Film after producing a range of documentaries, entertainment programmes, and shorts for local, regional and national television. As the company's Managing Director, Adam has grown White Lantern Film into a diverse business developing a range of creative work for television and theatrical release with a strong focus on drama and documentary.
Producer credits include the ITV period drama Me Reach, ITV documentary The Royal Pier and Burning Flame; and entertainment programmes including Clubbed Up and South Central. Current factual productions include The House Whisperer, A Tale of Two Mountains and The Secret Soya Story, whilst current feature films include Circumference, Doorman and YesterdaY.
Adam also manages the company’s energetic media education training programme encouraging the next generation of media talent. Working with the UK Film Council, First Light Movies, Screen South, South West Screen and various National Lottery distributors to produce and manage a range of productions including Millennium Song, Move It and Pier Pressure.
Georgina began her career working in Dubai Media City, UAE for a variety of TV and film production companies. In this time she production managed several shoots, including Range Rovers commercials. In this time she also worked extensively as a coordinator for Gulf News.
Georgina later returned to the UK where she studied and graduated at Bournemouth University in the BA (Hons) Television Production degree. During her tenure at Europe's foremost media schools and Britain's only Royal Centre of Excellence for Media, she worked on over 20 different productions in the capacity of Production Manager, Director, Producer.
Georgina has to date produced and worked on several award winning films, dramas and documentaries throughout her career. Georgina has also taught Production Skills to a diversity of individuals and groups.
Georgina freelanced in London and Dubai before returning to Bournemouth to join White Lantern Film in May 2007. Georgina currently splits her time running 'Pier Pressure' and coordinating several of White Lantern's other TV and Film ventures.
After studying Film and Animation Production in the USA for a year, Martin returned to the UK and graduated from the BA (Hons) TV Production course at Bournemouth University. Whilst at university he also worked as a professional actor in a touring theatre company, performing around Europe and the UK. Martin also studied Film and Cinematography at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
Before joining White Lantern, Martin freelanced as a camera operator and director of photography for various employers, including Associated Press, Orange and BAFTA. He has produced and directed a number of short films in the UK and Canada.
As a member of the National Youth Theatre, Martin collaborated on a number of TV and theatre productions as a writer, director and actor.
Tim Clague is an award winning and BAFTA nominated scriptwriter. He is passionate about new forms of script structure with each new project seen as an opportunity to explore new techniques gathered from a variety of influences. It is this approach that has seen him work with RKO Pictures (New York), Working Title and ITV.
He was winner of the Jerwood Film prize (UK) in 1998. The script was made into a short film, "Eight", by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot / The Hours) at Working Title and was shown in all Warner Village cinemas across the country over Christmas 1998. It was nominated in the Best Short Film category at BAFTA and received good press from Time Out, The Guardian, The Times, Total Film and BBC TV. The mainstream audience connected with this film in a way unheard of in shorts with repeat screenings booked in for weeks afterwards following high demand.
Since then Tim has also moved into the role of writer / director and his first film, “Consecration” being nominated for David Althsul Award. “Wimborne Road – Is It Too Long?” – a road movie documentary on foot was broadcast on ITV in December and used techniques from computer interface design in broadcast TV. “Weight of a Wall”, an animation won the “Special Award for Innovation” and his follow up animation “Hope” was premiered at the Edinburgh film festival.
Tim is a passionate supporter of short films and has given lectures at Universities and BAFTA on writing for shorts. This is after being inspired by helping David Yates (Harry Potter 5) run similar workshops. His future plans include teaming up again with Whitelantern films to write and direct the feature film Circumference – the World’s first feature film to be 100% funded by the selling of integrated adverts.
Originally from Northern Ireland, Jesse Malone d.g.g.b. is a prominent Casting Director with an excellent reputation for casting as well as prepping lead roles prior to filming. She is also a BBC industry panel member for short film and a Full Member of The Director’s Guild of Great Britain as well as an expert panel member with Lord Putnam on ‘Make Your Mark In Film’. Jesse has numerous casting credits including ‘Galapagos’ (Tilda Swinton) which has recently picked up 11 awards world-wide. In March she cast 7 roles on ‘The Overdose Notes’ which picked up Best Drama at the IVCA awards in London this year.
Jesse is currently working with White Lantern on their feature film debut Circumference. Initially on board as Casting Director, Jesse’s background in creative consultancy made her the perfect co-producer for the film as well.
Her Agent is Peter MacFarlane at MacFarlane-Chard, London.
Rob Brown wrote and directed ‘Family Portrait’, a short film about a terrified mother who calls 999 when her estranged husband turns up on their driveway with a gun, which was nominated for the BBC New Filmmakers Awards 2005 and was broadcast on BBC TV in March 2003.
Total Film and Hotdog Magazine both gave favourable reviews of the film.
‘Family Portrait’ later gathered many other awards nominations including the ‘Newcomer’ Award at Soho Shorts 2006 and NPA Short Film Awards before finally being chosen by renowned Film Critic and Broadcaster Mark Kermode as winner of ‘Best Drama’ at the BBC Big Screen Awards 2006.
Rob also won the same BBC award this year for his film Open Skies and had a short film broadcast on BBC3 in December 2007.
Having Directed his first award winning Film ‘Chips’ earlier this year, Mikel works throughout the year with the White lantern Film as a Placement Student. Mikel has worked on several White Lantern Film projects and has recently been awarded a Media Box grant by the government to enable him to work on the Documentary One way ticket, where he worked on location in France as a runner with BBC award winning director Rob Brown. Mikel is currently pursuing a First Light Application to direct his second short film.
