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DAPHNE SCHMON
| Co-Founder & CEO (Board Member)
Daphne is an award-winning Greek-American director and co-founder of BREAKING THROUGH THE LENS. Her debut feature THE EYE recently won Best Director and Best Film at the Greece International Film Festival. Daphne began her career in documentaries with CHILDREN OF THE WIND winning 8 international awards including ‘Best Emerging Filmmaker’ and ‘Best Documentary’ at X-Dance. Her next documentary DOWN TO EARTH was broadcast on CNN and distributed by Apple. Daphne has produced three short films, including TINY VESSELS, winner of Best Film at Berlin Lift-Off, and EXIT TO STAGE, winner of Directors UK Trinity Challenge. Her work has been featured on CNN, SBS, Amazon Prime and broadcast in over 30 countries. Daphne often serves as a Jury Member for the Lift Off Global Awards and runs events at key festivals such as Cannes, Venice and Toronto in her role as CEO of Breaking Through The Lens.
EMILY CARLTON
| Co-Founder
Emily is screenwriter and producer based in London. Her pilot script LESBIAN BED DEATH was shortlisted for the Edinburgh TV Festival ‘New Voices’ award, and earned her a fellowship on the Film Independent Episodic Lab in LA. She currently has TV concepts in development with Pulse films, BBC Studios and OneTwoTwenty Entertainment and recently completed a horror feature SCUM which is currently in late-stage development with Boulderlight Films. THE EYE will be her debut feature film.
Emily has had three short film scripts produced which have played at over 35 international film festivals to date and won multiple awards including ‘Best Screenplay’ at the LiftOff Season Awards 2019. She made her directorial debut, short film EXIT TO STAGE (2019) with the support of Directors UK and ARRI. It won ‘Best Director’ at the London Independent Film Awards.
Emil is a Co-Founder of Breaking Through The Lens and an active member of WIFTV and BAFTA Crew. She hopes to spend the next four decades exploring her love of film, before pursuing her lifelong dream, to be a Cher impersonator in Vegas.
ELPIDA STATHATOU
| Co-Founder
Elpida is an award-winning Greek producer, actress and co-founder of BREAKING THROUGH THE LENS. In 2017 she adapted, produced and acted in a one woman play called “Stegosaurus" which received 5-star critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Mental Health Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. "Stegosaurus" was also part of the VAULT Festival 2018 in London. Elpida has been featured in InStyle and Esquire among other top publications. In 2021, Elpida completed short film “Umbilical” which she wrote, directed and starred in. The film recently screened at BAFTA-qualifying Encounters and is touring festivals worldwide. Elpida is playing a leading role and will be Associate Producing Seek Films’ upcoming feature film THE EYE.
ALEX NEWLAND
| Director of Operations
Alex has worked in the creative industry for over 25 years as an actor and producer with his films screening at festivals across the world. He’s worked extensively in theatre and appeared in many television shows, including CRACKER, SILENT WITNESS and Channel 4’s BAFTA nominated CAST OFFS.
Alex is the co-founder of the award-winning technology company Visual Voice. He has diverse experience in production across creative arts, film making, theatre, live events and digital marketing technology. He puts this to formidable effect when delivering ground breaking campaigns for a roster of well-known brands including SKY, HONDA, ARGOS, ADOBE and the world’s first Oscar-directed AI car ad for LEXUS.
In 2021 Alex wrapped as a producer on a feature staring Natalia Tena and Nathaniel Parker and is in post production with a Creative Scotland film with Kate Dickie and Rickard Rankin. His film PETRA directed by Ella Jones and TINY VESSELS are currently starting their festival run.
Alex most recently appeared in Tom Stoppard’s newest play LEOPOLDSTADT directed by Patrick Marber. Alex aims to continue working with those who share his enthusiasm and passion for making films that resonate with their intended audience.
KATHRYN M. MOSELEY
| Producer, Executive Producer (Advisory Board)
Kathryn is a Writer, Producer, Financier and Executive Producer based in Southern California. After graduating Cum Laude from Pepperdine University with a degree in Economics, Kathryn worked for Price Waterhouse before turning her attention to social change and storytelling. In 2017 she founded One Two Twenty Entertainment, which focuses on high quality diverse projects by emerging talent in the film industry.
Kathryn’s Executive Producer credits include Paul Schrader’s THE CARD COUNTER (2021, Focus Features), John Swab’s BODY BROKERS (2021, Mubi) and XYZ Films’ feature documentary CLAYDREAM about the Oscar-winning master of Claymation. Kathryn Produced the 2022 Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner JOYLAND, directed by Saim Sadiq, which became Pakistan’s nomination to the Oscars. Kathryn joined the BTTL team in 2020 and is a key member of their Advisory Board.
RAFFAELLA ROSSIELLO
| Director of Communications
With a strong network of editors, influencers, artists, celebrities, and talents in all countries, Raffaella and her team of professionals helps brands in building their reputation and becoming more desirable. In her previous ten years’ experience at Chopard, as International Communication Director, Raffaella was responsible for corporate and product communication worldwide, international events such as the Cannes Film Festival sponsorship, celebrities’ endorsement, and the CSR project “The Journey to a Sustainable Luxury”.
TIFFANY BOYLE
| Strategic Advisor
Tiffany is President, Packaging & Sales at Ramo Law, a law firm that represents producers, financiers, as well as a handful of foreign sales agents, directors, and writers.
Over the past decade, Boyle has leveraged her business-oriented sales and packaging skills to bring hundreds of films and documentaries to fruition. She connects filmmakers with producers, co-finance partners, distributors, agencies, foreign sales agents and other industry representatives. She advises producer and investor clients on the foreign sales and distribution marketplace, how sales are made, and what the recoupment looks like from foreign entities; and she handles select direct territory deals for clients.
This includes advising investors and producers outside of the United States on the foreign marketplace, submitting and helping package their content. Such companies include: Upper Street (a production company based out of the UK), Backup Media (a finance company based out of France) as well as Media Fund Management (a debt and production company based out of Australia)
Experienced with project budgets ranging from micro-sized to $30 million, Boyle has helped to establish and expand high-value sales and packaging resources, uniquely accessed outside of the traditional management company and agency model, since joining Ramo Law in 2009. With this experience she has been able to help foreign production companies and investors create a foothold in the US marketplace.
She is also a partner in Vested Interest, a newly formed production company looking to produce and create sellable feature and television content focused on unique filmmaking voices. Thus far they have had “Something Else” and “Rollers” under this banner and recently sold an autobiography to Hulu for development into a limited television series.
SASHA DAMJANOVSKI
| Pitching Coach
Sasha Damjanovski is an award-winning writer, director, producer and coach. Over the years, he has created a great variety of projects - feature and short films, theatre plays, broadcast TV, and countless short-form commercial projects. His directorial feature debut was the acclaimed dance drama Dance With Me, and his multi award winning short DEFINING FAY has now been developed into a sci-fi romance TV series DREAMING LICENCE. Sasha is also a coach and mentor, specialising in pitching, storytelling and public speaking among other topics, and works with filmmakers of all calibres, as well as individual and corporate clients from other business sectors. He is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins, London.
JASMIN MORRISON
| Business Advisor (Board Member)
Jasmin is an experienced film professional having worked in production, post-production and film finance. For over 7 years, Jasmin served as Investment Manager at The Fyzz Facility, where she was involved in the financing of over 100 feature films including 47 METERS DOWN, THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT and the upcoming THE INFORMER. In 2019 Jasmin founded Soul Cognition a production and consultancy company which is committed to diverse stories. Jasmin is an expert public speaker having spoken at numerous events worldwide including SXSW and Film London’s New Entrants course. Jasmin is also the Business Director for Underwire Film Festival, and serves as a consultant for Breaking Through The Lens.