CONTRIBUTERS

Fiona Cunningham-Reid | Producer and Director. Fiona studied film at the London Film School and worked in the camera department on many feature films including My Beautiful Laundrette and Superman 3. Documentary films include a deep, dark look into her own family, The Real Country House; Sydney underworld legend, Croc-a Dyke Dundee; award winning Feed Them to the Cannibals, the Sydney Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras; and Groundswell, an inspiring story of a farming revolution. Most of Fiona’s films are shaped and edited by Catherine Arend.

Catherine Arend | Editor. Another graduate of the London Film School, Catherine came from France to study and then worked at the BBC for over twenty years before becoming a freelance film editor specialising in music and arts documentaries. She enjoys the maverick style of filmmaking that today’s technology allows and and over the last 12 years she and Fiona have collaborated on eight films.

Belinda Parsons | Cinematographer. Award-winning cinematographer specialising in television documentary, arts programming and independent drama. Films include Fiona’s On Thin Ice and Groundswell, Bach & Variations, Leaving Home: a History of 20thC Music with Simon Rattle; and Penninsula.

“My father was in the arts and in farming! He had a life-long interest in the conservation of this planet, which I inherited along with my obsession with the image and cinema. So to work with Fiona on Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism was a perfect opportunity for me.”

Richard Durrant | Composer. Richard Durrant is one of the leading guitar virtuosos of his generation. He plays worldwide and his lyrical, virtuosic interpretations of Bach’s works (on guitar, tenor guitar and ukelele) have received critical acclaim. Showing concern for the natural environment, he tours the British Isles each year with everything he needs for his midsummer recital tour on a bicycle and trailer.

Ackroyd & Harvey | Artists. Collaborating since 1990, they have exhibited in galleries, museums, public spaces and sites of special interest including; Science Gallery London (2024); Hayward Gallery, London (2023); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, USA (2023); Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2022); Somerset House, London (2022); Tate Modern, London (2021); Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2018); Aarhus Triennale, Denmark (2017); The David Attenborough Building, Cambridge (2016); Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London (2012).

Contributors to the film include:
Louisa Buck - Art Critic and Contemporary Art Correspondent
Frances Morris - Director Tate Modern 2017- 2023
Ben Okri – Poet, Novelist, Artist
Cornelia Parker – Contemporary Visual Artist
Love Ssega – Artist, Producer, Musician
Emma Thompson - Actress and Screenwriter