Background

My professional background includes work as Associate/Producer/Production Manager/1st Assistant Director on low-budget feature films, TV series and drama shorts with independent British filmmakers like Karl Francis, Nick Gifford, Maurice Hatton and Angela Pope; and documentary production with leading UK directors Michael Grigsby - the subject of major retrospectives at the UK's National Film Theatre (2004) and France's Dinard Film Festival (2006) - and Roger Graef, the first documentarist to receive the prestigious BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.

My family background is Empire on my father's side and Holocaust on my mother's side. My Russo/German/Jewish mother Elisabeth Furse was a member of the Resistance in France and a founder member of the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians (ACTT). She married my father Patrick Furse, artist son of Sir Ralph Furse, former Head of Recruitment at the Colonial Service, after divorcing Peter Haden-Guest, then a dancer.. They opened a bistro behind London's Royal Court Theatre which became known in the 1950's and 1960's for my mother's eccentric ways. The arts characterise the families and their branches, including the Whistler, Ravilious and Newbolt relatives.