FARAH ABUSHWESHA is the founder of Rocliffe and created the Rocliffe Forums in 2000. She was born to an Irish mother and Libyan father. She has worked for Warner Brothers Television, the TNT Cartoon Network and Moving Picture Company. Farah has a diploma in Journalism and trained as an actress at the Poor School, London. She has worked as a radio presenter in Ireland and France, and as a reporter for Boulevard Magazine (Paris), Irish Eyes (Paris) and The Irish Star covering the 1995 MTV Awards. She was selected by the European Commission and the British Council to represent Ireland as part of a film project celebrating the enlargement of Europe taking part in panel discussions in Brussels and Sweden for Media Desk. Farah has also worked as Deputy Head of Diploma Studies at the London Film Academy overseeing student graduation film productions.

KERRY APPLEYARD has worked in film and television since graduating in Communications and Film 1997. She has worked as an actor and presenter, and for the casting directory The Spotlight. Moving into production, she worked for director Beeban Kidron and as a production assistant and co-ordinator on various British feature films. From there she moved into development, working as a Script Editor for La Plante Productions, The Bill and as Head of Development for UKI Films. Kerry joined Rocliffe in 2002 to further her producing ambitions and build the development slate.

PIPPA MITCHELL joined Rocliffe in 2000 and is the co-founder of Rocliffe Ltd. Pippa currently works as a full time film and television producer. Feature Films - Associate Producer SPIRIT TRAP Archangel Filmworks UK, 2 short films with Rocliffe Ltd, Production Assistant GET RICH QUICK Vivo Productions Australia. Television - Producer for GAGGING FOR IT Archangel Filmworks UK. Pippa also gained work experience with BBC, Focus Features and Channel 10's Totally Wild and has over 10 years experience in business finance and marketing.

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Laura Dickens CDG
Laura began her casting career aged twenty-one having spent two very happy years working front of house at the Royal Court Theatre. Theatre Credits include; THE LONDON NEW PLAY FESTIVAL ’94 & ’95 – The Gate Theatre; THE MINISTRY OF PLEASURE –Theatre 503 and NATIONAL ALIEN OFFICE – Riverside Studios. TV Credits include: HELL ON HIGH WATER – Discovery Channel; THE REAL Q – Channel 5; XTRA – Channel 4 and THE BILL ’96 –’99 - Thames (Senior Casting Assistant) Film Credits include; MOTH - Amulet Films; THE WELCOME COMMITTEE – Rocliffe; INFINITE JUSTICE – Scarab Films; KISSING THE GUAVA – Anonymous Films; UNCONDITIONAL LOVE –New Line Cinema (Casting Associate); THE MARTINS – Tiger Aspect (Casting Associate); THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO – Disney (Casting Associate); ABOUT A BOY –Working Title (Casting Associate) and HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS Warner Bros. (Casting Associate). Laura was delighted to join Rocliffe in 2004 as resident casting director.

Stephen Moore has been a freelance Casting Director since 2001. He assisted Kate Rhodes James for two years and worked with her on many projects including the featurefilms THE HEART OF ME and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE and, for TV, FINAL DEMAND, JEFFREY ARCHER - THE TRUTH, THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, BYRON and HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT. Stephen is currently working with Nina Gold and he has assisted her on the feature films SAHARA, BROTHERS OF THE HEAD, CLICK and THE ILLUSIONIST. Television projects worked on with Nina include ROME (for HBO) and THE VIRGIN QUEEN. Stephen also cast PERPETUA which was produced at the Latchmere Theatre in 2004.