Contributors

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Charlotte Howley

Charlotte is a film and theatre producer with experience across major film, high-end television, touring theatre, and large-scale event productions. Charlotte is currently based in London as an AssociateProducer for GWB Entertainment developing and delivering a slate of original theatre productions. Previously, Charlotte served as Production Executive at See-Saw Films, working across the BAFTA Winning and 6-time Academy Award nominated film Lion, Jane Campion's Top of the Lake: China Girl for AMC/BBC2, and the Netflix/ABC commissioned The New Legends of Monkey.   In 2019, Charlotte produced Ben Allen's short film The Foreigner, which premiered at BFI Flare and screened at a number of international film festivals and won the Grand Jury Prize at LA'sDances With Films in 2020. Charlotte recently completed production on her  short film Kitchen Tales which stars Nikesh Patel and Sheena Bhattessa. 

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Sara McFarlane

Sara is founder of E/S Collab, a boutique executive producing and business affairs company headquartered in New York.  An Australian entertainment lawyer and experienced business affairs executive, Sara brings years of experience and a unique set of skills in executive producing, film financing, and production. 


Sara started her career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and See-Saw Films before moving to Fulcrum Media Finance, a specialist film financing company, where she worked on high-level financing transactions for film and television productions, including Academy Award nominated, Lion. After moving to New York in 2018, Sara worked with CinePointe Advisors handling business affairs matters for more than 15 independent films, including, Jay and Silent Bob The Reboot, The Half of It, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and On The Rocks, among others.

https://www.es-collab.com