REBECCA MARK-LAWSON FORMED TYKE FILMS IN 2015 TO PRODUCE WORK WITH ORIGINAL VOICES WORKING BETWEEN THE INTERSECTION OF DOCUMENTARY AND FICTION.
In 2018 Tyke Films was selected for Creative England’s CE50, celebrating the achievements of the best up and coming, innovative and disruptive companies across film, games and digital tech. In 2020 Tyke Films won a BFI Vision Award.
REBECCA MARK-LAWSON
FOUNDER, PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
After working extensively in production with the likes of Penny Woolcock and Ken Loach, Rebecca was appointed as development executive for new talent at EM Media.
Working on titles including Dead Man’s Shoes, This Is England, Michael Winterbottom’s Cock and Bull Story, Anton Corbin’s Control, Duane Hopkin’s Better Things and Keith Fulton, Lois Pepe and Tony Grisoni’s Brother of the Head. Then as Managing Executive at Lifesize Pictures, she delivered new talent schemes for the UK Film Council including Directors Lab, Cinema Extreme, Digital Shorts, Digital Nation and 4Mations. Rebecca was also shortlisted for Breakthrough Producer at the British Independent Film Awards.
DARIA NITSCHE
PRODUCER, PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
Daria is a multi-award-winning, international Producer who has been involved in German, English, Italian, Spanish, American and Nigerian productions.
She started her career working on programmes for Germany’s leading broadcaster ZDF, as well as global TV and cinema commercials. Since moving to the UK she has worked on scripted films, documentaries and commercials for companies such as Netflix and Channel 4 News. In 2019 she joined BFI Vision Award winning Tyke Films, where she produced BIFA winning and BAFTA Scotland nominated films, such as POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ, featuring Oscar nominee Ruth Negga as the voice of Poly Styrene. She is also a British Independent Film Awards voter and BAFTA Connect member.
JOE WILLIS
DEVELOPMENT EXEC, PRONOUNS: HE/HIM/THEY/THEM
Born and currently living in Sheffield, UK. Joe is Development Exec for Tyke Films and a BFI supported Screenwriter most recently chosen for the BBC Northern Voices Scheme and Children’s Voices Scheme in 2020.
He has also worked as a Script Consultant/Script Supervisor for multiple short films and is interested in LGBTQIA+ stories, projects around family relationships, mental health activism and the recontextualization of history.
TALA LEE-TURTON
TRAINEE PRODUCER, PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
Tala Lee-Turton is a Chinese British creative producer for dance onstage and onscreen, dancer and graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow, from South Yorkshire.
Her multidisciplinary, female-led and diverse work connects creatives and audiences to impactful dance experiences that challenge cultural and social boundaries. She brings eight years as a dance practitioner to the screen industries. Her work is supported by Screen Yorkshire, Reclaim The Frame, Arts Council England, and South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.