The Team
Tristan Goligher
Programme Director and Story
Editor
After graduating in Law and Politics from the University of
Nottingham Tristan spent a number of years working as an Assistant
Director before becoming responsible for the delivery of the UK
Film Council Digital Shorts scheme in the East Midlands. This
segued into script development on the scheme and in 2008 Tristan
joined The Bureau, as the Development Executive on the prestigious
Cinema Extreme Scheme. He has also worked as a Development
Executive on the UKFC's Digital Nations. In 2010 Tristan and The
Bureau Film Company, founded the SOS development programme.
As a producer Tristan's award winning short films have played
around the world, including Berlinale. He has produced the award
winning, Weekend by Andrew Haigh, and in
2010 co-produced Late Bloomers, which was written and
directed by Julie Gavras, and stars William Hurt and Isabella
Rossellini.
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Valentina Brazzini
Development and Programme Manager
Before moving to London Valentina lived and worked in Italy.
Initially at Milano Film Festival on music and events planning,
film programming and also on new talent scouting. These experiences
were augmented through work at other festivals, including Venice
Days, and a short period in DVD publishing. In 2006 Valentina moved
to London to join The Bureau Film Company as an assistant to the
producers, during the production of Far North by Asif
Kapadia and several short films. A year later she became assistant
to the producer Soledad Gatti-Pascual, with whom she worked on the
first two films by Argentine director Alexis Dos Santos. Firstly on
the post-production of Glue and then Unmade Beds
(Sundance and Berlinale 2009).
In 2010 Valentina moved onto the SOS where she is now the
Development and Programme Manager. In the same year she produced
Save Our Bacon directed by Peter Baynton and later on she
produced Random Strangers, by award winning director
Alexis Dos Santos, alongside Soledad Gatti-Pascual.
Matthieu de Braconier
Programme Tutor and Story Editor
Before producing from The Bureau philosophy graduate Matthieu de
Braconier d'Alphen has worked his way through the roles of
producer's PA, shorts programmer, production coordinator and
development executive. He managed and executive produced the
"Cinema Extreme" short film scheme funded by the UK Film Council's
New Cinema Fund and Film4 that ran from 2002 until 2010. In
collaboration with its financiers and the support of Skillset,
Matthieu built it out to include script development and training
support from script to screen for it's writers, directors and
producers.
Matthieu presently produces and co-writes on projects he has set
up in collaboration with exciting writer-directors.
