Ed Thomas

Ed Thomas

Ed is one of Wales' leading playwrights and is Artistic Director of Fiction Factory. His theatre work, including the critically acclaimed House of America and Stone City Blue, formed the basis of the company and have toured extensively, translated into ten languages and have earned him his reputation as 'the most exciting playwright to come out of Wales' search for a distinctive voice' (The Guardian). He has won numerous awards, including Time Out, Arts Foundation Awards, Two Celtic Film Festival awards as well as BAFTA Cymru awards as a writer, director and producer for ' Fallen Sons' (BBC), 'Satellite City' (BBC), 'Fondue Rhyw a Deinosors' (S4C). His other credits include 'A Mind To Kill', 'Cwmgiedd/Colombia:Cartref', 'Dal:Yma/Nawr', 'China' and 'Y Pris'. He is currently producing and directing the fifth and final series of S4C's city drama 'Caerdydd'.

Gethin Scourfield

Gethin Scourfield

Gethin Scourfield has been working in the television and film industry since 1984. He was co-founder and director of two of Wales’ most successful independent film and television companies, Criw Byw and Boda, producing award winning music programmes, documentaries and drama. In 2001 he joined the BBC as an Executive Producer, responsible for documentaries and music performance films for BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and BBC4. Gethin left the BBC in 2006 and is currently producing and developing a slate of film and television projects for Fiction Factory.  He recently graduated from the 2008 EAVE Producers Workshop. Credits include ‘Beautiful Mistake’, an award winning music documentary feature film starring John Cale of Velvet Underground fame; ‘The Little Prince’ (BBC2/WNET13/SONY), a film of the opera by Oscar winning composer Rachel Portman,  and ‘‘The Festival in the Desert’ (BBC4), a documentary film shot at the legendary music festival in Mali.

Sophie Fante

Sophie Fante

Sophie joined Fiction Factory in 2008 having spent the previous ten at the BBC where she produced on popular network dramas Torchwood and Casualty and four series of BBC Wales’ flagship drama Belonging (winner: 3 x BAFTA Cymru Best Drama Series, and Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival 2004).  She has also produced several ground breaking new media drama projects including an interactive episode of Doctor Who: Attack of the Graske and the Tardisodes (designed for tx on mobile phone).  As a BBC script editor her credits include International Emmy award winning children’s drama The Magician’s House. Previously, Sophie gained considerable experience of film and television production, having worked for several years as a freelancer in drama, documentary, 35mm features and shorts. At Fiction Factory she is overseeing a range of projects in development, with a special brief to expand the company’s English language drama slate.  She is currently supervising development of new S4C drama series Gwaith/Cartref.