TEAM
Ivan Dunleavy
Ivan was the Chief Executive of the Pinewood group for over 15 years. He captained the group from success to success from 2000 when he and Lord Grade led the buyout from Rank Group.
He now brings an unparalleled understanding of financing and production to the senior team at StoryFirst, especially using tax credits to maximum effect in the final stages of financing a project.
Peter Gerwe
Peter is an American with a global footprint. Over the last thirty years he has built a number of media companies from start up to exit. He founded, built and exited companies including CTC Media, a NASDAQ listed company and leading broadcaster; HELLO! Magazine (Russia); Corvette Telecom a leading independent Ethernet broadband company.
Peter runs StoryFirst day-to-day managing the growth and partnerships of the company.
Nicola quilter
Nicola started her career as an actress in Australia, starring in Home and Away. She has since been a punk-rock star, fashion designer, writer and director.
Nicola works as a StoryFirst writer on a wide range of our projects, starting with her own creation “Combustione”. She is a prolific and talented writer across a range of genres and styles.
Tom Davidson
Tom is on the StoryFirst board of advisers. He is responsible for the sales and pitching strategy for StoryFirst’s slate of projects.
Tom has served as the GM of UKTV Play, the MD of A+E Networks, a VP at Sony Pictures and has a wide base of experience across Features and Television.
Dominic Barlow
Dominic is an award-winning Executive Producer and Series Producer with over 25 years of experience in broadcast drama. Dominic has been Head of Drama and Executive Producer at two leading UK production companies, Darlow Smithson and Twenty Twenty Television where he originated and Executive Produced series such as Garlow’s Law for BBC1 and The Mill for Channel 4.
His producing credits include Mr Selfridge for ITV, A Discovery of Witches for Sky 1, George Gently for BBC1, The Last Kingdom for BBC/Netflix and the Mallorca Files for
BBC/ZDF/TVFrance/BritBox.
Dominic works alongside the team at StoryFirst to develop projects
from script to screen.
Henry Clifford
Henry started his career at Avalon TV where he worked across the development and production of a number of projects including BAFTA-nominated Breeders (Sky One, FX) and Starstruck (BBC Three, HBO Max).
As Director of Development Henry manages the development of all company projects and is the point person for editorial. He also manages a slate of his own projects.