Creative Partnerships, Indie Production & Climate Consciousness on Screen

Off Script x Green Rider: Join us on the literal second day of November, for an exciting event in partnership with the GR legends. Off Script x Green Rider presents... A Change of Scene: Creative Partnerships, Indie Production & Climate Consciousness on Screen. It is 2nd November. Two days after the Spooky Holiday™️. You're wondering what to do... Well, we have the answer! Join us for an exciting event in partnership with the legends from Green Rider, and two talented speakers - who also happen to be working together on a new feature film. This will be a candid, informal conversation about building a collaboration between writer/director and producer, developing independent features, planning for sustainable production and how climate activism shows up in the stories Jack wants to tell and the work he does with Green Rider. Note to ticketholders: • Please download the Green Handshake to have a look at as we will likely refer to it during the conversation - https://www.green-rider.org/green-handshake. • Do also have a watch of Jack's film MORE FLAMES - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejABOLOaOA. Jack Cooper Stimpson An award-winning writer, director and environmental campaigner from South London. Jack trained at the BRIT School and with The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and has since written and directed a feature length film, short films and several pieces for TV. In 2018 Jack wrote, directed and produced ‘Alex’s Dream’, starring Alex Lawther and Emma Corrin. The following year he wrote and directed the political satire ‘Extinction’, starring Academy Award winner Emma Thompson. Jack developed ‘Extinction’ into a six-part series for BBC Studios and directed his first feature-length project, ‘Goodbye, Hello’, in Los Angeles for No Good Films. In 2023 he directed Academy Award Winner Mark Rylance in the ecological film, ‘Spirit of Place’, which won numerous awards and qualified for the BAFTA’s and Academy Awards, In early 2024, Jack wrote and directed ‘More Flames’ for Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios, which stars Phoebe Dynevor and Bella Ramsey. Alongside ongoing TV commitments, Jack is developing several feature-length scripts with various producers and companies. He hates writing about himself in the third person. Bennet McGhee Bennett is a BAFTA and BIFA nominated producer whose credits include MOGUL MOWGLI, co-written and directed by Bassam Tariq and starring Oscar-nominated actor Riz Ahmed, with whom Tariq co-wrote the script. MOGUL won the Berlinale FIPRESCI award, picked up 7 BIFA nominations and was BAFTA-nominated for Outstanding British Film. He is also an Executive Producer on writer/director Dionne Edwards directorial debut PRETTY RED DRESS, produced by Georgia Goggin / Teng Teng Films. Other credits include director Ed Lilly’s debut film, rap-battle drama VS.; Ron Scalpello’s feature documentary BOBBY, about the sporting and cultural icon, Bobby Moore, and as Associate Producer, on multi-Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning BROOKLYN starring Saoirse Ronan produced by Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey (Wildgaze Films). Prior to Home Team, Bennett set-up Silvertown Films, and was a British Film Institute 2016 Vision Award awardee. Before then he worked at Wildgaze Films including on multi-Oscar-nominated AN EDUCATION and Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut QUARTET; Blueprint Pictures; UK Film Council; and was selected for Working Title Films’ inaugural Action Internship Scheme.