media co-op

Lucinda’s one of the founder members of media co-op. She has a mix of roles: director, producer, facilitator. One of the things she likes best is working on participatory projects.

Before media co-op, Lucinda worked for over 20 years as a Director and Executive Producer of UK and international television documentaries. Her prizes include Amnesty International’s Media Award. She was elected Board Member of the European Documentary Network, Branch Secretary of her trade union BECTU, and co-founded a housing co-operative. Lucinda has a lifetime’s experience as an activist in feminist, LGBT, anti-racist, peace and solidarity campaigns. She also tutors on international forums for emerging documentary filmmakers in Latin America, Middle East and Asia.

Vilte is a multi-talented film-maker. She is involved in our creative processes from the early stages to the cutting room. Vilte’s main focus is editing and keeping our post-production systems running like clockwork, but she also does directing, camera, and leads participatory projects.

Vilte graduated in Time Based Art and Digital Film at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee, and has a background in experimental film and screen-dance, as well as a passion for documentaries. She was a film industry apprentice in the Second Light scheme, specialising in post production, including placements in Pinewood Studios and the BBC.

Jenni is a creative all-rounder, passionate about animation and storytelling for social good. When she first joined media co-op in 2019, fresh from graduating at the University of Glasgow, she worked alongside Viltė in the edit suite. Over the last five years, her role has grown to include animation directing, motion design, copywriting, and social media. She also has experience working in-house at a medical research charity.

She lives in York and works remotely.

Louise co-produces broadcast documentary and digital projects for media co-op, and promotes the development of new partnerships.

Louise started out as an archaeologist in Iraq in the 1980s. She’s been a consultant in the European Commission’s cultural unit in Brussels, a UK Sector Skills Council director and overseen the EU MEDIA Programme services for the UK audio-visual sector. Louise is a mentor with MCR Pathways, she served on the Glasgow Children’s Panel for 13 years and is a former board member of Glasgay! and Social Enterprise Scotland.

A true believer in collaboration, an internationalist and a pragmatist, Louise is one of the founder members of media co-op.

Cat has a background in events and logistics management working for ten years in the charity sector running outdoor events for young folk across Scotland. She then worked in film festival organisation for four years and was involved with Take One Action Film Festivals, Document International Human Rights Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival among others. A move into the film and TV industry saw Cat working freelance for several Scotland-based production companies, including media co-op. In 2018 Cat was accepted onto the Screen Skills Trainee Finder programme and worked in production roles on independent Scottish feature film Run (2019) and Dutch/Scottish co-production Repression (2020) – she also joined the crew of the long-running TV drama Shetland (ITV) for its fifth series. After graduating from the programme Cat continued to work freelance within the Production and Assistant Directors departments on several productions including the Bafta-winning BBC productions Guilt and Elizabeth is Missing.

Cat has been at media co-op full time since September 2019.

Ian looks after our finance and governance, keeping on track with budgets, invoicing, payroll, production and management accounting, and member meetings.

Ian is an experienced management accountant, having worked for many years in film production and in the voluntary sector.

James looks after our archiving, and assists with post-production. James enjoys keeping everything updated and orderly, while having the opportunity to be creative.

Before joining media co-op, James studied Professional Writing Skills, and also Media and Communications at college.

Becca is our newest member of the team.