Take ThRee Team

Programme Director

Carolynne is a film and television producer who has been working in the industry for more than thirty years, focussing almost exclusively on working in scripted content with new and emerging talent.

Her producer credits include: RTS Scotland award winning digital first drama series DOG DAYS; BAFTA Scotland Best Scripted winner ADAM: UNFAIR, a comedy BLAP! for Channel 4; lockdown monologues SKINT on the theme of poverty for BBC4; three series of comedy for TV including multi award winning cult classic HIGH TIMES;  and the darkly comedic Irvine Welsh penned feature for Film4 THE ACID HOUSE.

Having produced many short films of her own, winning awards at prestigious festivals like Cannes and Palm Springs, she worked for 6 years as Executive Producer at the BFI/Creative Scotland funded Scottish Film Talent Network. Here she worked on more than 60 short films with new and emerging talent, taking great joy in seeing the films achieve slots at A list festivals such as Venice, Berlin, Sundance and SXSW. Several of the SFTN supported short filmmakers went on to make their first funded features, kick-started with script development money from the SFTN pot.

Carolynne has concurrently worked in education, as visiting tutor on the MA Film and MA Screenwriting course at Napier University, as well as the Kino Eyes European Movie Masters course.  She taught a Film Production summer school in Tallinn, and in addition she ran the NFTS Scotland Producing your First Feature course for two years.

Before becoming a producer, Carolynne worked extensively as a production manager and line producer, across documentaries, high end leisure series, drama and low budget feature films.

Programme Director

Holly is a film festival consultant and talent development programme manager with a long track record of supporting new and emerging film talent. 

Holly currently oversees the film market and Industry programme at the Red Sea International Film Festival and for over 10 years, was Head of Industry & Talent Development for Edinburgh International Film Festival and curator of their Scottish short film programmes. In addition to managing the annual industry programme, she was responsible for the design and delivery of multiple talent development programmes supporting writers, directors, producers, animators, composers, sound designers and those working in exhibition.

From 2014-2020 Holly was co-lead on the Screen Scotland/BFI supported Scottish Film Talent Network, a programme supporting short film development and commissions, feature film development, and talent development activities. Programmes delivered included opportunities for emerging creative producers and for writers wanting to make the transition to film from another creative medium.

Ongoing projects include managing events for Women in Film & TV in Scotland and working with the RSNO as the film industry consultant for their Film Composers Lab. She often gives talks on film festivals strategies and regularly contributes as a guest speaker for other talent development programmes and at universities.

Programme Coordinator

Before joining Take Three, Abbie worked at Edinburgh International Film Festival for seven years across various roles in their Industry and Programming departments, most recently as Programme Manager.

Abbie has previously supported talent development programmes such as the EIFF Talent Lab, Script Starter and Short Circuit, organising a multitude of industry workshops, events and networking sessions.

In her spare time, she co-runs a freelance captioning partnership and tries to wrangle her dog, Mack.