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Tessa Ross
Wed 8 Feb 2017
Producer and former head of Film4, Tessa Ross has worked over the last 20 years on a host of award winning British films, including Billy Elliot, The Last King of Scotland, This is England, Slumdog Millionaire, Four Lions, 12 Years a Slave and Under the Skin.
Winner of the BAFTA for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema and named as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman's Hour in 2013, Ross will be joined by the writer Amy Raphael, to discuss her life and work in film.