Resist

This year, the leaders of the G20 countries
are making a plan to fix the economic crisis.
we20 helps you meet, in groups of up to 20 people,
to make your own plan. This year, anything can change. http://www.we20.org

Who’s coming to the meeting we’re attending?
Alnoor Ladha - Mother
Alnoor is a senior strategist at Mother Advertising Agency, and is currently developing a new arm of the business which relates very strongly to this we20!  (That’s all we can say right now.)
Dan Biddle - Development Advisor in BBC Multiplatform
Dan’s main project is producing the social media elements of multiplatform open source documentary Digital Revolution. A BBC Two and online documentary about the web made by collaborating with the web and web communities. Dan’s interests for we20 are around open source collaboration online to improve knowledge and information access; GWAP - Games With A Purpose; mobiles and the future.
Darius Pocher - Creative Director of Enable Interactive
Ranked us the UK’s no. 1 digital agency by Revolution magazine, Enable Interactive delivers new ways for brands to connect with their audiences across the digital challenge. They have delivered campaigns for charities and NGOs including Adventures in Coffee, a filmic journey to Mexico, Guatemala and NewYork for Percol, and Digital Strategy for War Child and WWF.
David Alberts - Founder, Whatonearthisgoingon?
In the last fifteen years David has lived on four continents and created award winning multiplatform campaigns in over forty-two countries for some of the largest brands in the world, including Unilever, P&G, Nestle and Nokia. He has run Creative Agencies in Australia and Asia and was most recently Chairman and Creative Director of Grey London. He left in January 2008 to launch What On Earth Is Going On?, a multiplatform content business that connects companies to causes.
Helen Starr - Director, FuseArts
Helen Starr is a marketing strategist and in 2007 joined the South London Gallery in 2007 as a patron where she has been working to promote their outreach since. Erasing the distinction between high-art and community, one of her recent projects saw her interviewing residents of the Sceaux Garden Estate in Peckham (one of the ten most deprived estates in the UK) which has benefitted from the gallery’s outreach programme, alongside Tracey Emin, Steve McQueen, Matthew Slotover of Frieze and David Adjaye.
Jess Tyrrell - Director, germination
Jess founded germination, a creative production company of live events, film and digital media projects in 2004. germination produces experiences that unite people and challenge/inspire audience to act together towards positive social change.  Jess trained as a theatre director originally, but found traditional theatre too static. She worked in the music business and then in politics, before starting germination. germination is explicitly political and but done through creativity, inspiration, art and aesthetics.
Joanna Crawford - Digital Producer,  Battlefront
Battlefront is a major interactive project commissioned by Channel 4, which focuses on the endeavours of 20 teens as they do their bit to change the world by campaigning for issues they care deeply about. The Battlefront campaigners utilise the power of their social networking skills to grow their campaigns.
Jude Ower - Managing Director of Digital 2.0
Digital 2.0 is a consultancy specialising in Serious Games and Serious Virtual Worlds. Jude has worked at all stages and levels of serious games development with a range of private sector companies such as IBM, Siemens, RBS and Shell. Digital 2.0’s latest project is Red Mist, an immersive 1st person game for young offenders.
Katie Bradford - Director, The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation
Katie works across the Foundation’s slate of films, from selection of projects through to distribution strategy and oversees the Foundation’s online projects, including USEFILMS. She also runs the Pitching Forums at the BRITDOC Festival, which includes The Good Pitch for social-issue documentary projects with associated campaign strategies.
Laurelene Chambovet - Philanthropic Manager, The Hospital Club
Lolo worked on the first edition of the now well-established annual artistic event ‘NUIT BLANCHE’ in Paris and has organised all sorts of diverse events in the last few years. At the Hospital Club she created ‘Creatives In Residence’, a programme designed to support and help some of the best of the next generation’s creative talent to break through.
Marc Mathieu
Untll 2008 Marc was Vice-President Global Brand Marketing and Creative Excellence at Coca Cola. After working for many years with large, international corporations and global brands, Marc experienced firsthand the power of brands to change people’s behaviors. Seeing the growing urgency for scale within the socio-environmental movement, Marc has decided to apply his vision, expertise and relationships to the creation of a branded social elevation platform directed at accelerating behavioral change around social and environmental challenges.
Marc Silver - Film-Maker
As one of the pioneer directors to use DV as a means of telling stories that otherwise could not be told, Marc made a seminal film on the Anti-Globalisation movement for the BBC called Global Protest. Marc went on to direct films for other broadcasters including the first critical film on the Burning Man festival commissioned by Channel 4. As a visual artist Marc has collaborated with some of the world’s most interesting contemporary artists including Matthew Herbert, Faithless, the Beastie Boys, Michael Nyman, Ben Okri, Nitin Sawhney, Cirque du Soleil and Jamie Cullum, and is the creative director behind the ground-breaking Resist project.
Mark Beam - Member of Board of Directors, Buckminster Fuller Challenge
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards each year a $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Seeing the potential to leverage both technology and his financial experience for social enterprise, Mark co-founded Collective Intelligence in 2001 and xigi.net in 2005 to help catalyze the emerging capital market for good. Finally, drawn to the art world by artists fluent in technology, Mark formed artbeam.net in 2003, to work closely with a handful of artists in the creation, exhibition and promotion of their work.
Mihailo Trandafilovski, classical composer/musician
A Macedonian, Mihailo had to deal with a lot of the real affects of the war in Yugoslavia and the ripping apart of the country he knew. He wrote thousands of letters to groups and encountered inertia and general lack of interest.  In the end he decided that the best way to reach people was through music.  He has been back several times to Macedonia and has run many musical workshops with children whose lives were destroyed by the war.
Paula Crickard - Film-Maker
Paula grew up in one of the only Irish Catholic families in her neighbourhood of Northern Ireland. She founded Did Productions to unify several different creative industries under one single umbrella with the sole purpose of producing high quality work. Devil in Disguise is her central project - a triology of stories distributed on several levels; theatre, film, television and publishing.  Devil in Disguise has just been invited to headline the Gay and Lesbian Festival in Belfast. 
Samantha Beinhacker - Development Director Associate, germination
An expert on social entrepreneurship, Samantha was the founder and co-director of The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, a program that focuses on social entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector in collaboration with the Yale School of Management, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Sam was the programme lead for the Skoll World forum in 2008.  She is project lead for SHINE, Unconference for Social Entrepreneurs.
Simon Skevington - NinjaTune
NinjaTune is a London based independent record label started in 1991 by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut.  With a strong leaning towards electronic, alternative hip hop, nu jazz, drum and bass and chillout tunes, NinjaTune have been responsible for some of the most illuminating social commentary through lyrics and music culture, as well as spawning numerous sister companies and additional imprints to support the commentary of musicians in other genres.
Thomas Benski - Producer, Pulse Films
Thomas Benski is the Producer and head of Pulse Films and has developed the company’s first slate of feature films. Their commitment to the creative process, the ‘story is key’ approach and international perspective differentiates Pulse, as well as the voice they offer to a wide range of ground-breaking and established film-makers.  Tom is currently producing Resist, a feature documentary presented by Gael Garcia-Bernal on the power of human dignity in spite of oppression. Resist is part of a new wave of films funded by Charities and NGOs. 
Lorraine Warner
Lorraine is a Producer/Director who has made content for MTV and Channel 4 as well as for teenage debating website Truetube, which she was responsible for getting off the ground.  She produced and directed 48 Fest, a 48 hour film challenge highlighting the risks for young people of HIV & AIds on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya.  The documentary went out to 128 million homes across the world on MTV on World Aids day.  Lorraine is interested in how greater participation in film-making and citizen journalism can change the way we consume and create news.
Plus:
Two places at we20 are for members of The Hospital Club’s Creatives in Residence Programme, which takes participants through a creative mentoring experience across business development, collaboration and creative development. The participants below are committed to developing collaborative artistic projects that engage audiences around social issues:
Lisa Spirling - Theatre Director
Lisa is one of London theatre’s hottest young talents.  Having recently directed a critically acclaimed production of Cotton Wool by Ali Taylor for Theatre 503, she is currently assisting on the touring production of Boeing Boeing with Matthew Warchus and is also working as assistant director alongside the epic Rupert Goold on his production of King Lear.  Lisa has also set up her own theatre company, Buckle for Dust, where she is developing a production of Hundreds and Thousands by Louise Ramsden.
Antoine Choussat/Zamir Antonio - co-founders of EatSleepWork/Play. 
With his co-founder Zamir Antonio, Antoine has worked on a range of projects and freelance commissions including a think-tank for Adidas, working with fashion design talents Gareth Pugh and Kokon To Zai; channel idents for VH1, a branding job for Pepsi as well as design commissions and art direction for Modular Records, BoomBox and MAC Cosmetics.  One of their most ambitious projects was to re-brand the identity of the University of the Arts, business they won whilst still writing their dissertations, purely on the strength of their audacious ideas.  Their interest in branding and new forms of identity have since become a key focus for the pair, who recently completed another rebrand for Royal Festival Hall.