Jess Search, Channel4 BRITDOC Foundation – 4docs co-publisher.  Jess is CEO of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation where she has funded and executive produced feature docs including We Are Together, Afghan Star, The End of the Line and The Yes Men Fix the World.  From 2000-2005 she was a Channel 4 commissioning editor.

Maxyne Franklin, Channel4 BRITDOC Foundation – 4docs co-publisher. Maxyne is one of the Directors of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and responsible for the Foundation’s output of films, from conception to distribution strategies. For the Foundation, Maxyne has overseen such award winning films as Afghan Star, Here’s Johnny and the forthcoming Moving to Mars and Erasing David.

Stu Tily, SHOOTING PEOPLE – 4docs Technical Director. Stu is responsible for the technology used to provide Shooting People’s and BRITDOC’s online presences. Stu has been working on internet projects for 12 years, for organisations as large as the BBC and News International to volunteer-driven projects like faxyourmp.com and theyworkforyou.com.

James Mullighan, SHOOTING PEOPLE – 4docs Manager. James is the Creative Director of Shooting People, responsible for the company’s day-to-day running, business development and future expansion. He is a film events producer (RESFEST), journalist (Rolling Stone and GQ) and music industry executive (Sony Classical and Columbia). James sits as a juror for the Babelgum Online Film Festival, the Depict! Short Film Awards, and Friends of the Earth’s Green Film Competition, and sits on the Advisory Boards of the Sheffield Doc/Fest and the Branchage Jersey International Film and Abandon Normal Devices Festivals.

Tim Hague, SHOOTING  PEOPLE – 4docs Project Manager. Tim develops the Shooting People website.  His computing background is in AI, having researched techniques for facial expression recognition as part of his dissertation, and also in web development, having dedicated over two years to the craft. He learned Symfony. Yesterday. He’s like that.

Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Channel4 BRITDOC Foundation – 4docs Archive Manager. Rebecca is a freelance filmmaker, most recently working on Erasing David, co-funded by Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and Rough Aunties, directed by Kim Longinotto. She is excited to have started directing her own projects, including the short doc A Very Nice Place, shot on super 8 and a runner up in part of Straight8 competition 2009. She built the wiki, and the 4docs Archive. Talented in so many ways, then (save for paintballing).

Helen Jack, SHOOTING PEOPLE – 4docs Editorial Manager. Helen works as Marketing and Events Manager at Shooting People, and is responsible for the content of the 4docs blog. She has a first from University of Sussex, majoring in Film Theory. She has worked as project manager on the ‘Sound & Silents’ programme at London’s Birds Eye View Film Festival at the BFI, and on tour. Helen consulted on 2009’s Mary Harron Masterclass, as well as a ‘Sex on Screen’ debate at the ICA. She completed a post-graduate certificate in Film Journalism in June 2009. She has met John Waters. Yes, really.

The new 4docs team would like to tip their cap to the Founding Fathers of channel4.com/fourdocs: Peter Dale, Anthony Lilley and Patrick Uden,and its Editors Emily Renshaw-Smith, Charlie Phillips and Rebecca Frankel.