Clarisse Loughrey
Clarisse Loughrey is the Chief Film Critic for The Independent. She also acts as a regular stand-in for Mark Kermode on BBC Radio 5 Live’s ‘Kermode and Mayo’.
Kezia Williams
Kezia is Managing Director for Entertainment One, the leading independent film distributor in the UK, where she has been since 2013. With extensive experience in UK film and media; she has enjoyed being part of the industry for over 18 years including time spent at Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Kezia also sits on the Board of Directors for MediCinema and Cinema First.
Tanya Easterman
Tanya has over 15 years of commercial experience, across both UK and EMEA working at a number of integrated marketing and advertising agencies such as Saatchi and Saatchi and BD-NTWK.
In 2010, she joined ODEON Cinemas and led the Commercial and Distribution Partnerships and Retail Marketing team across UK and Ireland. In 2015, she moved to Cinema First to manage the inbound financing and strategic roll out of comparethemarket.com flagship marketing initiative ‘Meerkat Movies’ on behalf of the UK exhibition and distribution industry.
She then managed Studio Partnerships for Disney Studio Motion Pictures across UK and EMEA, before re-joining ODEON Cinemas Group in 2017, where she now is Group Head of Partnerships managing Studio and Supplier Partnerships across 12 European markets. Passionate about Partnership Marketing she sits on the UK’s first Partnership Marketing Panel, driving awareness of the strategic and commercial benefits of this discipline within the wider marketing community as well as being a member of The Marketing Society and appeared in Box Office Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 of European Cinema.