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The team

Marianela Maldonado, Director

Marianela has directed two short films, her most recent being ‘The Look Of Happiness’, which has been shown in more than 25 film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, London International Film Festival, and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. Her first short film, ‘Napkin’, was selected to appear at a number of film festivals in Europe including the Reencounters Internationals Henri Langlois.

A successful journalist and novelist in her homeland, Venezuela, Marianela moved to England in 1997, where she graduated with a Master degree in Screenwriting from the National Film and Television School.


Paola Minazzato, Producer

A graduate of the MEDIA BUSINESS SCHOOL in Spain, Paola worked as a script analyst for a number of companies, including British Screen, the UK Film Council, Pathé Pictures and Intermedia Films. Previously, Paola worked in various production capacities in the UK as well as in her native Italy, including script supervising on such productions as Mrs Dalloway directed by Oscar™ winning director Marleen Gorris, and B. Monkey, directed by Michael Radford for Miramax Films. Paola was in charge of Marketing and Distribution at Snowman Enterprises, responsible for marketing, licensing and distributing award winning children’s classics, while working closely with producer Iain Harvey (A Christmas’ Carol, The Snowman, When The Wind Blows). After three years spent in Vienna, Canada and Milan, Paola finally settled in London in 1996, where she graduated from the London Institute with a MA in Film Studies.


Lachlan MacKinnon, Producer

Before setting up Intrepido in 2002, Lachlan worked for European public film financier EURIMAGES and as an independent television producer for ITV, Carlton and Talkback Thames, for which he produced over fifty episodes of ITV flagship drama series The Bill. Lachlan produced two of last year's CINEMA EXTREME films financed by FILMFOUR and the UK FILM COUNCIL. A graduate from the prestigious NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL in the UK and the MEDIA BUSINESS SCHOOL in Spain, Lachlan brings a wealth of production experience to the Company, having worked extensively as a Production Manager and as a Line Producer, both on independent films and television. In 2004 Lachlan was one of the producers featured in Screen International as one of Britain’s “most exciting new talent”.


Pippa Hinchley, Writer

Pippa is a TV, film and theatre actor (The Dressmaker, Crime Time, Comic Potential, Dead Funny) who began writing several years ago, contributing to the sketch shows No Limit (Sky TV) and C4’s Smack The Pony.Her one act plays Javelin and The Biker, the Buddhist, the Prosecutor And Her Shrink led to the offer of a collaborative project with The London New Play Festival.She co-wrote the sitcom, Hattie the Disenchanted, which was showcased and nominated for Comedy Writer Of The Year Award at T.A.P.S, 2001 and has been optioned.


She also writes and performs character comedy on the London circuit and produced and co-wrote the sell out Edinburgh sketch show The Alans Have Landed (Gilded Balloon 2000).Pippa has just completed the London College of Printing screenwriting MA with her first feature film One White Crow. Her short film Hate Thy Neighbour was a finalist in this year’s Jerwood First Film Competition and is currently being considered for the next BBC shorts season.