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Board & Sponsors
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Script Factory Board Member Meera Syal
Some of the biggest organisations in the film industry have combined their sponsorship with support from media and funding agencies, to keep The Script Factory active since 1996. In addition we have always been loyally supported by an Advisory Board made up of eminent industry figures.
The Script Factory sponsors and partners include:
BBC Films
UK Film Council
National Film and Television School
Skillset, through the Film Skills Fund
British Council
Shooting People
We also have had long-term partnerships with, and support from numerous other industry organisations including:
United International Pictures
Columbia Tristar / Sony Pictures
Bird & Bird
Walt Disney/BVI
Twentieth Century Fox
The Script Factory Board Members are:
Daniel Battsek (National Geographic - President)
Andrew Cripps (Paramount Pictures Int - President)
Peter Dally (New Media Law - Partner)
Eric Fellner (Working Title Films - Co-Chairman)
Mike Figgis (Writer, Director, Composer)
Simon Hewlett (Universal - Managing Director)
Paul Howson (British Council - Director of Film)
Robert Jones (Material Entertainment - President)
Diana Napper (Producer)
Joe Oppenheimer (BBC Films - Executive Producer)
Marion Pilowsky (Willing-Pilowsky Productions - Managing Director)
Tracey Scoffield (Rainmark Films/HBO - Director)
Meera Syal (Novelist, Screenwriter, Actor)
Peter Taylor (Columbia TriStar / Sony - Managing Director)
Colin Vaines (GK Films - Co-president of Production)
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Daniel Battsek - National Geographic 
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Colin Vaines - GK Films' Co-president of Production
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Marion Pilowsky - MD Willing-Pilowsky Productions
Peter Dally, New Media Law - Partner 
Anthony Minghella
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Eric Fellner - Working Title Films, Co-chairman
We were grateful for the support of the late Anthony Minghella who was a hugely valued Board Member from 1997-2008.
Since its creation in 1996, The Script Factory's Board has included many industry figures who have given time, inspiration and support. They remain Script Factory Friends & Patrons
Ben Gibson, Eliza Mellor, Hercules Belville, Timothy Burrill, Dennis Davidson, John Madden, Simon Perry, Allan Scott, Chris Collins, Alasdair Flind, Sara Harper, Oscar Van Heek, Sophie Janson, Robin Macpherson, Nadine Mellor, Richard Morris, Kate Ogborn, Kate Swan, Rachel Wood, Emma Berkofsky, Nick Drake, Petra Fried, Kate Leys, Lee Magiday, Pippa Markham, Scott Meek, Andrew Ruhemann, Robyn Slovo, Natascha Wharton, Sandra Hebron, Charlotte Kelly, Mark Kermode, Charles McDonald, Nadine Marsh Edwards, Allon Reich, Philip Solomons, Richard Jobson, Troy Kennedy Martin, Simon Beaufoy, Howard Schuman, Andrea Calderwood, David Aukin, Nik Powell, John Battsek, Alison Thompson, Elizabeth Murdoch, Elaine Steel, Jenne Casarotto and Lizzie Francke.