Helen Simmons - Company Director

Helen is a Screen International Star of Tomorrow and a BIFA longlisted producer and writer. Her first feature, Chubby Funny, was released in 2017, nominated for a BIFA and the LOCO Discovery Award and stars Asim Chaudhry, Isabella Laughland and Augustus Prew. Her second feature, Say Your Prayers, stars Derek Jacobi, Harry Melling and Anna Maxwell Martin, and was selected for Great 8 in Cannes.

As a writer her short film F*ck, starring Emmy award-winning Brett Goldstein, earned her a Best Screenwriter nomination at Underwire and she has since been part of iFeatures and 4Screenwriting. Helen is currently co-writing and Executive Producing romantic comedy series Six Nights starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor for Kinetic Content in the US, and recently co-wrote the 16-part Audible Original series Dark Harbour. She has TV projects in development with World Productions and NBCUniversal and is developing features with Manon Ardisson (producer of God’s Own Country) and BAFTA nominated producer Campbell Beaton.

Helen is one of the British Screen Forum’s Future Leaders and spearheaded the recent Producers Roundtable initiative. Helen was on the BIFA Sundance London Jury, and has spoken on panels for Broadcast, Screen International, WFTV, BAFTA and many others.

Stephanie Aspin - Company Director

Stephanie started as an intern at TWC in the acquisitions department working on projects Burnt and Carol. She then worked on major studio movies, becoming the assistant to director David Yates on the films Tarzan and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, seeing the projects through from script development to post and premiere.

Stephanie is an experienced writer, leading shows in both the US and UK. Stephanie is the lead writer and executive producer for a major new book adaptation, picked up by Hulu and Disney after a 5-way bidding war. She is working with showrunner Harriet Warner (Tell Me Your Secrets, Call the Midwife) on Season 2 of Dangerous Liaisons for Starz and creating Sugar for Brillstein Grey, starring Emmy and Tony Award winning actress Judith Light and executive produced by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar (Junk). Stephanie is also leading First for MGM to be directed by Karen Maine (Rosaline; Star Struck; Yes God, Yes). Her adaptation of bestselling author Kate Atkinson’s ‘Transcription’ is in commission with the BBC.