Team – BloodLand

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JOHN SMALLCOMBE

PRODUCER

John Smallcombe is a creative producer with 50-years experience in feature film production. John began his career as an assistant director working with such luminaries as Fred Zinnemann, Michael Apted, Hugh Hudson, Richard Lester, and Ken Russell. His credits are numerous and include Lucky Lady, Tommy, Chariots of Fire, and Triple Echo. For a decade he worked with Oscar-winning producer, John Daly (Terminator, Platoon, Salvador, The Last Emperor). More recently he was Co Producer on Love at First Kill (2008), The Hessen Conspiracy (2009), and Meant to Be (2010). In 2021 he produced Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees, and Terence Gross’ a Fistful of Karma.

HENNING KOCH

WRITER

Henning Koch has written a number of feature-length screenplays including Nicholson Unborn (optioned in 2009), Il disprezzo (2016), Mister Wednesday (2019), and LA, 1872 (2021), the latter three in development with John Smallcombe Films. As a founder member of Foursight, a film collective, Koch works for numerous clients on series concepts & feature film development. He is the author of novels Love Doesn’t Work (2011) and The Maggot People (2014 – optioned in 2016), both published by Dzanc Books, USA. Koch is the recipient of numerous Swedish Arts Council awards. He has twice adapted Swedish plays for successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is also a prolific literary translator from Swedish to English, with international sales of about three million copies. His work has been extensively reviewed in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Guardian.

Kevin Waite

Historian

Kevin Waite is an assistant professor of history at Durham University in the UK. His first book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (2021), was a finalist for the prestigious Lincoln Prize and named one of the “11 books that shaped how we think about California” by Boom: A Journal of California. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Post. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (PhD), University of Cambridge (MPhil), and Williams College (B.A., phi beta kappa, magna cum laude).

Paul Spitzzeri

Historian

Paul R. Spitzzeri is the director at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, where he has worked since 1988. He has a B. A. and M. A. in History from California State University, Fullerton and has written on California history for such journals as California History, Southern California Quarterly, California Legal History and Journal of the West, and in the anthologies Law in the Western United States, Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, and Icons of the American West. His biography on the Workman and Temple families is an Award of Merit winner from the American Association for State and Local History.

Kate Iles

Script Consultant

Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Film Production and Screenwriting at the University of the Arts, London. Prior to her academic career she worked for 20 years in the UK Film and TV industry on drama and documentary projects for Channel 4, the BBC, ITV and the UK Film Council.