Our Mentors
Rachelle Constant
Rachelle is an executive producer at Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End of The F***ing World, Misfits). She started her career at ITV Studios before joining the BBC where she worked as a development producer across drama. Rachelle was also one of the producers to receive a BFI Vision Award.
Manda Levin
Manda started out at BBC Drama, script editing CUTTING IT by Debbie Horsfield and the BAFTA-winning CHARLES II before producing Billy Ivory’s A THING CALLED LOVE. She joined Kudos as Head of Development for Film where she worked on David Cronenberg’s EASTERN PROMISES, Simon Beaufoy’s MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY and SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, and Abi Morgan’s drama about the Boxing Day Tsunami.
Returning to the BBC Manda was Creative Director of in-house Drama Production, where she oversaw what was the largest drama development slate in the UK (including Luther, Five Daughters, The Fades, Criminal Justice, Great Expectations), and Executive Produced Debbie Horsfield’s ALL THE SMALL THINGS. Ricocheting back to Kudos she was an Executive Producer on three series of Sky Atlantic’s bilingual drama THE TUNNEL, Abi Morgan’s RIVER For BBC One and Netflix, THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT for BBC Two and the four part adaptation of literary thriller APPLE TREE YARD starring Emily Watson.
She then returned to the BBC to work with the commissioning team at BBC Drama with a particular eye on strategy, as Senior Commissioning Editor for Development.
At the moment Manda works in development and production for the UK arm of A24. She also works at Netflix, looking after a range of UK dramas for the streamer.
Daisy Coulam
Daisy is lead writer and executive producer on Grantchester (ITV) now filming its tenth series. She also created Deadwater Fell (C4/ Netflix) and has written for shows including Humans, Death In Paradise and EastEnders.
Veronika Tofilska
Weronika is a London based writer and director, graduate of National Film and Television School and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Film School in Poland. She has written and directed several short films including Last Train, which won multiple awards on Polish and international film festivals, dark comedies The Patient, Suicide Is Easy, horror comedy Pink And Blue which won Frightfest Short Film Competition. She started her career with TV directing episodes of Irregulars, Hanna and HBO’s His Dark Materials.
Most recently Weronika directed episodes of Baby Reindeer for Netflix and co-wrote a24/film4 film Love Lies Bleeding with Rose Glass.