Mike Downey founded the UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) in 1990. He spent most of the eighties as a theatre director and producer in France, Germany, the former Yugoslavia and the U.K., as well as working as a publisher, contributor and critic for various international publications including Variety, Screen International and Moving Pictures International.

Sam Taylor is director and joint-owner of Film and Music Entertainment who merged her company Mass Productions Ltd into F&ME in January 2000. Her most recent credits are Deathwatch, Hilmar Oddson’s Cold Light, Fridrik Thor Fridkriksson’s films Niceland and Falcons, Anders Ronnow Klarlund’s puppet epic Strings, Loving Glances, which was selected for competition in Venice 2003, and Peter Timm’s My Brother is a Dog.

Since joining the company in autumn 2004 as an assistant on the Shadow of the Sword, Hannah has moved from being a freelancer on a section of projects to full time with the company.