OUR ‘BAWLERS’

Both our founding directors have backgrounds in the creative industry including film, animation, intellectual property management, theatre and journalism and are experienced entrepreneurs with their own businesses.

 
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TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE

Marrying a keen love of stories and culture, Tanya has written for the stage, screen and radio.

Her play Woman Tongue received 8 Actor Boy Award Nominations (2016) and her short film script Endeavour earned Best Script in the KingstOOn Animation Festival (2013). She authored Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories and was a senior writer for the radio serial Outta Road (2005 – 2007). She is a Fellow of the Calabash International Writing Workshop and Cropper Residential Workshop and has successfully completed workshops in script development and screenwriting.

Tanya was producer and script editor of the award-winning animated short Agwe (2019), and Assistant Production Manager on the short This City of Mine directed by Danielle Russell. Tanya is also the screenwriter of our company’s current projects in development and was a project team finalist for the 2021 SFFilm Rainin Grant as the screenwriter and one of the producers for the feature film project Escape to Last Man Peak.

 

ANALISA CHAPMAN

A lover of literature, law and the magic of movies, Analisa’s creative and professional journey has included work as a producer and production manager for music videos, talk-show radio, theatre and short films.

No stranger to authorship, she has been an awardee for the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s screenwriting competition and is a holder of a Bachelor of Arts. Additionally, Analisa is an experienced intellectual property and entertainment attorney, and has been an entertainment reporter and junior public relations account executive.

Analisa is an alumnus of the acclaimed IFFR Rotterdam Lab and an active member and the immediate past president of the Jamaica Film and Television Association. She was also a project team finalist for the 2021 SFFilm Rainin Grant as one of the producers for the feature film project Escape to Last Man Peak.