A respected and multi-talented director, Vadim has won many prestigious awards in his film, documentary and commercial career, including the advertising industry's equivalent of an Oscar, a Golden Lion, in Cannes in 2005 for his direction of the recent series of Cancer Research commercials in Britain. He has directed six feature films, including Leon the Pig Farmer, for which he won a number of awards (The Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Newcomer and the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival). He has also directed Clockwork Mice, which Empire magazine described as, 'a stirring and wonderful movie', and starred Ian Hart, The Real Howard Spitz, starring Kelsey Grammer and Amanda Donohoe, and One More Kiss, starring Gerry Butler. Most recently he directed Jim Glick In Lalawood for the producers of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which starred Martin Short, Kurt Russell and Steve Martin and closed the Toronto Film Festival in 2004 with a gala premiere.

Vadim is one of Britain's leading commercial directors and has directed many memorable commercial for television. He was also founding member of The Mob Film Company in 1998, and with its expanding film slate and some of the country's leading commercials directors on its books, the company continues to flourish.

Rod is a very experienced producer and series producer, working in television and video for 20 year. He started as a writer and contestant researcher on Thames Television's award-winning game show, Strike It Lucky. After a successful comedy writing career he joined C21C, a television and video production company formed by acclaimed producer/director Neville Bolt, and produced numerous titles in his five-year stay, working with an array of stars. After a short spell at MTV, he joined Hewland

International in 1996 and was part of the production team that developed Dream Team for Sky One. After producing the football element of the programme for series one and two, he produced and series produced series three, four, five and six. He also series produced the children's drama series Goal! for BBC Worldwide. He returned to Dream Team as a consultant for series eight, before taking up his current position at The Mob Film Company at the end of 2004.

Ian is an experienced producer of 15 years, joining The Mob Film Company in 2000. He has produced across all genres from multimedia through to drama, documentary, sport and TV commercials. His production credits include line production of feature films The Virgin of Liverpool and One More Kiss. Recently he produced two series for Discovery Network Europe - Skin Deep, a series of three issues-based documentaries presented by Anita Roddick, and Working The Thames, a source-to-sea look at the working river. Ian has worked across the world from Los Angeles to Tokyo and India to China, shooting on film and video with local and UK crews.

Gavin is a multi award-winning Director of Photography. He won an RTS award for Best Cinematography for his work on the BBC's Gormenghast and has a distinguished list of credits in film and television that include Colditz, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (second unit), Flying Scotsman, Keeping Mum, The Sculptress, Strangers and Play Dead (the latter two directed by Danny Cannon). He also has an impressive list of commercials and promo credits.

The Moving Picture Company is one of the world's leading postproduction facilities, creating high-end digital visual effects and computer animation for the advertising, television and feature film industries. It has recently completed high profile campaigns for Adidas, Guinness, Levi's, Stella Artois and Volkswagen Golf. Similarly, its feature film work includes recent blockbusting projects such as the Harry Potter film franchise, Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Troy, Alien versus Predator and Wallace and Gromit. MPC has also worked on landmark drama, history and science programmes that include Virtual History - The Secret Plot To Kill Hitler for Discovery Channel, and Auschwitz - The Nazis and the Final Solution for the BBC.

London-based Pennicott Payne has 20 years worth of experience in model making and special effects in feature films, commercials and documentaries. Included in its portfolio of feature films is the swimming shark in The Beach work on two James Bond films, the Ericsson headsets worn by Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, javelin-firing war machines for Arthur and the car crash and underwater sequence in The Bourne Supremacy. For the BBC it produced special effects and filming for two of the Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea, and it built a Sherman tank and simulated it sinking for a programme on the D-Day Landings.

Pennicott Payne has been involved with thousands of TV commercials and won a major industry award in 1998 for the commercial that launched Sky Digital TV.