Team
Zoom Rockman
Director
Zoom Rockman is an Award-winning political cartoonist, illustrator and film maker. Zoom was the youngest-ever regular contributor to: The Beano Comic (at 12), Private Eye Magazine (at 16), The Sunday Times (Zoom’s Week at 21) and named by the Evening Standard as one of the Most Influential Londoners under 25. Zoom is currently working on an animated TV series featuring ‘Skanky Pigeon’ a character he first created age 12 who starred monthly in the iconic British Comic, The BEANO from 2012 – 2016.
Kate Lennard
Screenwriter and Producer
Kate is Co Director of ROCKMAN & ROCKMAN Design Studio and Creative Management.
Nigel Canin
Executive Producer
Nigel Canin is a leading innovator in 21st century education. Multi award winning Edtech company, 2Simple was founded in 1999 with a mission to inspire learning, curiosity and revelation in the classroom. Online platform, Purple Mash now provides curriculum-aligned resources, tools and games used by over 2 million learners in 74 countries. Publishing company, Lemon Soul focuses on books with urgent social messages and through sale and promotion raise money and awareness for fantastic causes all over the world.
Nick Goldfarb
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Nick Goldfarb has produced feature films including: Metamorphosis, The Informer, Disobedience, Everything in the Song Is True, Opposite Field and the short film Triggered which was nominated by the Hollywood Critics Association as Best Short Film in 2022.
Sally Vaughan
Producer
Sally Vaughan is a producer, agent and coach. Prior to founding Exceptional, Sally’s career spanned the media and art worlds. As vice president marketing for ESPN Asia and CNN International, she led the marketing launch of ESPN India and CNN’s first multiplatform campaign. Sally launched the first online platform purely for figurative artists in 2008 becoming art consultant to the Savoy hotel. She is an ILM qualified Leadership and Management coach and a Member of the Institute of Leadership.
JENNIFER BUZZELLI
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Jennifer Buzzelli is a NY-based producer with 25 years experience in international co-production, distribution and programming for the likes of National Geographic, truTV and KONAMI.
RACHEL MANSSON
DISTRIBUTION
Commercially focused, highly creative international media senior marketing executive with extensive knowledge of the entertainment industry. Rachel has successfully conceived, built, launched and grown many successful digital businesses and products internationally. Prior to founding the BYO Collective, Rachel held senior roles at NBCUniversal, PolyGram Films, Star TV, MTV Europe and Virgin Records. Currently BYO Collective has consulted for multiple media companies including PBS, Viaplay, Really Epic Dog, O3 Medya, MBC Studios amongst others.
Erran Baron Cohen
Composer
Erran Baron Cohen is an award winning composer whose work has encompassed film and television scores, album releases, orchestral commissions and musical theatre. His knowledge of contemporary classical, electronic and world music makes him an extremely versatile composer able to turn his talents to a wide variety of eclectic projects. Erran has received numerous Composer Awards for his scores to Borat, Bruno and The Dictator and his song Wuhan Flu was Oscar shortlisted.
Pini Brown
Singer
Pini Brown is a singer who trained as a Cantor in Jerusalem. Age 24 he moved away from his Hassidic community for a new life performing a blend of Yiddish Blues in the late night jazz clubs of Dalston. His jaw dropping, sacred vocals quickly earning him a reputation as a new exciting voice at live music events and Synagogues across the UK
Mark Garside
TECHNICAL DESIGN
Mark Garside is co founder of ROCKMAN & ROCKMAN Design Studio. He studied Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art and now specialises in luxury retail display and production.
Morgan Penn
SOUND DESIGN
Morgan Penn is a London-based portrait painter and musician.
MATTHEW WHITE
TITLE SEQUENCE DESIGNER
Matthew, Creative Director of SuperGrizzly, is the creator of title sequences for notable films and series such as The Death of Stalin , The Duke, Ten Percent, Stan & Ollie, The 355, Eight for Silver and more. SuperGrizzly is proud to have designed the titles for Survivor, while providing post-production support and offering design advice throughout the project.
Ace Rockman
ASSISTANT COLOURIST AND PUPPET MAKER
Ace is currently in his final year studying Classics at the University of St Andrews.