Mark Walker Writer/Director

Nottinghamshire born, Mark originally studied as a painter and attained a First Class Degree in Fine Arts from Cardiff University. It was here he also began exploring experimental filmmaking, performance and installation art. Mark graduated from the Fiction Direction MA course at the National Film and Television School, where he directed a number of fiction films both on film and video, including Lizzy , Scorn and a commercial, ‘Nosferatu: Immortalise The Moment' which received the 2nd Prize at the Kodak Student Awards 2003 and won Best Production Design. His graduation film Sea Monsters which, amongst other commendations, was nominated in the Best Short Film category at this years BAFTA awards and won Best Direction at the International Henri Langlois festival.

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”.

Paola Minazzato Associate 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.

Stephan Pehrsson Director of Photography

Originally from Denmark, Stephan graduated from the European Film College in 1997, before embarking on a career as a cinematographer. Starting out as a lighting assistant, Stephan worked his way up to the position of gaffer, working on several short films. In this period, he shot about twenty short films, most of them low-budget productions, funded by the Danish Film Workshop. This enabled him to gain enough experience to gain a place on the MA Photography course of the National Film and Television School (UK), from where he graduated in January 2003. Floating marks Stephan's third collaboration with writer/director Mark Walker, following the short dramas Sea Monster and Lizzy . Their commercial ‘Nosferatu: Immortalise The Moment'received the 2nd Prize at the Kodak Student Awards 2003. Stephan has since been involved in several television productions, most recently working on Dream Team and a documentary shot in Turkey for Danish National Television.

Emiliano Battista Editor

Before moving to England to study film editing at the National Film and Television school Emiliano graduated in Cinema, Theatre and Music from DAMS University in Bologna. During and after University he directed and edited documentaries about experimental theatre and traditional performers. At the NFTS Emiliano has worked on a number of projects, both fiction and documentaries. These include the critically acclaimed documentaries Brothers (dir: Tone GrØttjord, winner of the Volda Documentary Film Festival in Norway; screened at the Eureka International Festival 2002), and Little Figures (dir: Sarah Vanagt, a UK-Belgian co-production, selected for Brief Encounters 2003 and other European film festivals). In August 2003 Emiliano collaborated with artist Wolfgang Tillman on a 50-minute film commissioned by Tate Britain. Floating marks Emiliano's third collaboration with Mark Walker, following Sea Monsters and Scorn.

Sabine Hviid Production Designer

Originally from Denmark, Sabine graduated with a MA in Screen Design from the National Film and Television School, where she designed six short films, both stage and location shoots. Sabine collaborated with Writer/Director Mark Walker on his Bafta-nominated graduation film Sea Monsters and on the commercial Nosferatu: Immortalise The Moment , which won the top prize for Best Production Design and the 2 nd prize at the Kodak Student Awards 2003. Sabine travelled to USA/Maine to design her first feature film, 4 corners of suburbia, which featured a British cast including Alec Newman, Alice Evans and Paul Blackthorne. She returned to UK to design Floating and is currently designing a feature, Ambulancen, in Denmark.