Medb Films

Medb Films was set up by producer Elaine Wickham and director Jan Dunn who merged their portfolio, resources and contacts to create a significant market focused, independent film company.

The Company has a pool of creative partnerships and film financiers and is a production company with unique vision and strategy that includes financial feasibility and achievable production output.

This strategy is reflected in Gypo, which secured Medb the finance for Ruby Blue, as well as considerable grant support from various business and arts development organisations.

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Production Designer - Stevie Stewart

Stevie Stewart formerly one half of the innovative and influential fashion design label Bodymap now works with top creative names in fashion, music and advertising as a costume, set and production designer and fashion stylist both on photographic shoots, music promos, commercials and films.

She has been collaborating with Michael Clark since early on in his career creating memorable costumes for his productions. Other recent theatrical collaborations include costume design for Jan Willhem Van Den Bosch's "Mother Courage and her Children" for Graeae Theatre Company.

Recent projects include costume design for the theatre production of "The Importance of Being Ernest" directed by David Fielding and staged at The Bristol Old Vic and costumes for Kylie and her dancers on the "Showgirl" International tour.

Stevie also designs and consults for leading Italian fashion houses.

'Fashion lives for its moments of genius and this season, that moment is the reviving of the revolutionary style of Bodymap. In the early Eighties, Bodymap's stretch-jersey-body-contouring layers, designed by Stevie Stewart and David Holah, helped turn British fashion on its head. The spring, labels as diverse as Cacherel and Louis Vuitton are nodding to the Bodymap style with cutouts and stretchy stripes. 'We are rebelling against the conservative, the bland''We are striving for excitement', says Stewart. That quest has lived on: she has forged a fertile career consulting, directed adverts and designing sets' so the time is ripe to reissue some designs' (Vogue UK, March 2003).

Director of Photography - Ole Birkeland

Ole Birkeland is Jan Dunn's long time collaborator, having worked on a number of Jan's shorts and recent feature Ruby Blue. Ole is represented by ARRI and is one of the UK's most up and coming Directors of Photography.

Ole has worked on a number of award winning films and programmes, most notably the Ray Winston feature film Everything which was nominated for the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award 2006, Peace One Day winner of the Kodak Award for Best Documentary Film Festival 2005, The Murder of the Brown Owl Best UK Short at Edinburgh Film Festival 2004 and nominated for a Kodak/Bafta Cinematography Award, and Amelda Marcos of Bethnal Green Winner of RTS Award for Best Educational Drama.

Sound Designer - Neil Collymore

Neil Collymore is one of the UK's top re-recordist and sound designers, having worked on over thirty films, TV programmes and drama's including KING ARTHUR, HUSTLE and SPOOKS. Neil began his career at De Lane Lea, working as a studio operative, ADR engineer and assistant mixer, working on films such as BILLY ELLIOT, CAPTAIN CORRELLI'S MANDOLIN, CHICKEN RUN, and THE CLAIM.

Having worked in some of the most prestigious dubbing theatres in London and managed some of the UK's largest mixes, Neil has vast experience in all levels of post production sound. He has worked alongside Kevin O'Connell (head of sound at Sony MGM), Paul Hamblin (head of Boom Post Production), Mike Prestwood-Smith (Harry Potter, Alfie, Casino Royale) and Adrian Rhodes (senior dubbing mixer at De Lane Lea), to name a few.

Neil has experience in the design and construction of professional post production sound studios, most notably assisting the expansion of Boom Post Production in 2003. He has close working relationships with Dolby, AMS-Neve and Norman Brown (post production engineer).

Since going freelance in 2001, Neil has continued to work as a film sound engineer in the capacity of re-recording mixer, sound editor and mix tech. He is now head of the sound department at Medb Films. He has been nominated for BAFTA, Royal Television Society and Conch sound awards.