Darren Bender – Managing Director
Darren was an award-winning documentary filmmaker (Coconut Revolution, A Sarajevo Diary) before becoming a Commissioning Editor and Executive Producer.
At Channel 4 he established Coming Up which has been breaking in new writing and directing talent for 9 years running. Responsible for 4Later, he also commissioned many other programmes including new documentary talent series The Other Side, Late Night Poker and Bullfight.
Darren left C4 to explore drama and the first project he developed was The Hamburg Cell, produced by Finola Dwyer and David Aukin for C4 and HBO. He then took on the newly created role of Head of Production at Screen East, investing lottery funds into low budget features and developing scripts with over 40 writers.
In 2005 Darren was chosen as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow. He has completed the International Producers’ Programme EAVE, the UK Film Council’s Executive Development Programme, Inside Pictures, and is an active member of the ACE European Producers Network.
Glenn Barden – Co-Managing Director
Working alongside Darren, Glenn is an accomplished storyteller and entrepreneur. He was a senior creative at MTV Europe during the mid nineties where he designed and created their prime time show MTV Hot, and introduced the concept of camcorder shooting and deconstructed news presentation.
He then left to produce and direct factual programming on a range of channels, building up a string of credits for the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
For 8 years he ran his own successful BAFTA nominated television production company Vashca. Output ranged from the insane endurance contest Touch The Truck, to the current affairs series Rageh Omaar’s Crime Invasion. More recently he was Series Producer of Celebrity Masterchef 2010.
Ashok Shah – Head of Finance
From 1998-2003 Ashok was the company secretary of television production company Brook Lapping and oversaw their £2 million sale to Ten Alps. For the last five years he was finance director of the digital television channel Teachers TV.