Since 2009, Dawn has worked as an artist, curator, and researcher producing projects that explore site, with a particular interest in alternative regional histories. Her work has looked at the Northeast as a site for (art) production including 70-80’s experimental video and new media in Washington New Town, concrete poetry, and publishing in Sunderland in the 60’s. She also makes music solo as Pentecostal Party and with friends in Hen Ogledd, a band exploring the sub-Roman Old North. Dawn completed a PhD at C.R.U.M.B, University of Sunderland and an MRes in Exhibition Studies with Afterall Journal at Central Saint Martins. She has enjoyed working with artists who take an expanded approach to moving image including Giles Bailey, Adam Chodzko, Benedict Drew, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Laura Harrington, Rory Pilgrim and Heather Phillipson.

Born in The Lake District, moulded in Liverpool and now residing in Berwickshire – Mal has worked in the wine trade and the NHS before joining the team at BFMAF. Mal is the one member of the team without a creative bone in his body (but he can use a calculator).

Elisa Kay joins BFMAF after spending the last few years as a freelancer working in curatorial and research roles with the UK’s Government Art Collection and Somerset House, London, and as a fundraiser for a number of UK arts organisations. Prior to this she was a Curator at Spike Island in Bristol, where she worked on exhibitions with artists including Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Roman Štětina and Sriwhana Spong, as well as Spike Island’s public and artists’ programmes. Between 2012-2014 was Project Manager for How to work together, a shared project by Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire, and from 2008-12 she was the first Curator/Director at Flat Time House, the former home and studio of the artist John Latham.

Peter Taylor (Belfast, 1974) is a film curator and has been Director of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival since 2015. His work explores plural and de-centred approaches to cinema and contemporary art, with an interest in radical aesthetics, collaborative practice, and revisionist approaches to dominant histories.

Before joining BFMAF, he was based in Rotterdam for over a decade, programming at International Film Festival Rotterdam and WORM — a centre for experimental film, sound and performance. He has curated, mentored and served on juries internationally, and contributes to the wider field through ongoing collaborations, research, and support for emerging artists and programmers.

Peter is currently on the advisory board of the University of St Andrews’ Centre for Screen Cultures, and in 2023 mentored for Cinema in Transition, 3-ACT Myanmar. His recent projects include co-curating Barbed Wire Love with Myrid Carten — exploring artists’ responses to the North of Ireland’s Troubles — and deepening BFMAF’s year-round engagement with local and global communities.

Miranda Mungai joined Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival part-time in 2023.

She is a freelance film curator, events producer, and facilitator based in Newcastle. In 2023 she was on the Independent Cinema Office Advisory Group, consulting on inclusion, diversity and accessibility, a Guest Curator at IMPAKT Festival, Black History Month workshop facilitator and curator at OUTPOST Gallery, and a Curatorial Fellow at the 68th Flaherty Film Seminar.

Since graduating from King’s College London in 2017 she has worked as Documentary Programmer and Industry Events Co-Producer at The London Short Film Festival alongside temporary roles at Open City Documentary Festival, Sheffield Documentary Festival, Tate Britain, and the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine.

Alice Miller is a PhD researcher and film programmer based in Leeds. She is currently writing her thesis on the history of local independent film exhibition, in the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. In 2018, she joined Leeds International Film Festival as a programmer and for the 2019 edition of the festival, she programmed Mother Cutter: Women Who Shaped Film, a retrospective season celebrating the work of women editors. She organises pop-up film screenings in various spaces across Leeds and is a local organiser for the DIY celebration of cinema that is Scalarama.

Myriam Mouflih is a curator and sometimes writer based in Glasgow, working across film and contemporary visual art. Myriam has been programming at BFMAF since 2020 and has programmed for festivals like London Film Festival and Africa in Motion Film Festival and organisations such as South London Gallery, Pavilion (Leeds) and The Mosaic Rooms.

Ben has worked as a graphic and web designer, as well as in marketing, administration and management. In 2021 he set-up and ran Interesting Books + Zines in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Alongside his role at BFMAF, Ben works on the production team of the Journal of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, runs a weekly meditation session in Berwick and, in 2024, set-up Berwick Contemplative Arts CIC a not-for-profit organisation putting on creative, contemplative and wellbeing events in and around Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Sam is a programmer and filmmaker currently based in London, researching at the intersections of human rights, heritage, and visual cultures. He has worked as Head of Programming for Document Human Rights Film festival and recently completed an MA in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Sam also works as Communications Manager for inclusive music and dance organisation, Paragon Music.

Ane Lopez is a curator and artist based in Glasgow. She has previously worked as a film programmer for Femspectives and Glasgow Short Film Festival and she is a board member of Document Human Rights Film Festival. Ane works as the Programme Facilitator for the artist-run initiative Market Gallery and is the co-founder of A+E, a collective of artists working together towards a post-oil vision. She is also currently working on setting up an artist residency for contemporary art practitioners with a focus on ecology in the heart of the Bamff Wildland in East Perthshire.

Ilinca Vanau is a curator, researcher, and artist living in Edinburgh. She has worked with programming teams at Cork International Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. With BFMAF, she has taken part in the Early Career Critics Workshop and the Berwick Young Programmers scheme. She is currently working on a PhD project in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, researching sound and posthumanism in recent moving image works made by women filmmakers and artists.

Millie joins the festival after several years running a not for profit food waste initiative, Northern Soul Kitchen, here in Berwick Upon Tweed. Her experience in the voluntary sector is extensive and community often at the heart of her work. She is an active board member of Berwick Slow Food and has been appointed as their Festival Director since 2022 for their annual Food & Beer Festival.

Emmie McLuskey is an artist and producer living in Glasgow. She has been working with Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival as a freelancer since November 2024.

Since 2021, Emmie has led alternative education project The School of Plural Futures in partnership with ATLAS Arts and works as an Associate Producer for Counterflows Experimental Music Festival and Music Space including international collaborations in Vietnam, Lebanon and Australia. Over the last few years she has worked in a variety of roles with organisations including LUX Scotland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Sandberg Institute of Art, Cove Park, Arika Festival, BBC, KW Institute of Art, Collective, Edinburgh Art Festival, Ohio State University and Glasgow International and with many individuals that span the disciplines of art, design, film, dance and music.

As an artist, recent presentations of Emmie’s work have taken place at Talbot Rice Gallery, n0dine Brussels, Collective, Glasgow International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Govan Project Space, ARCUS Project Japan, Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst, Switzerland and Sissi Club Marseille. She is currently finishing a new children’s book titled The A – Z of Movement in collaboration with choreographer Janice Parker and working towards a new presentation of work based around the importance of community radio with artist Hannan Jones for Glasgow Project Rooms.

Ren Scateni (he/they) is a writer and film curator whose practice embraces experimental works and artists’ moving image exploring the interstices of political, disruptive, and liminal identities. His writing has appeared in various art and film magazines including ArtReview, Hyperallergic, MUBI Notebook, and Sight and Sound. Ren is currently leading the curation of out-of-competition strands at Glasgow Short Film Festival. Before that, he was Head of Programme at Encounters Film Festival (2021 – 2023) and has curated programmes for national and international art centres and festivals, including the Barbican, Filmfest Dresden, and Short Waves. Ren is a Trustee of Alchemy Film & Arts and a preselector for shorts at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.