Friends and Co-conspirators

Shabana Azmi

Antonia Bates

Nicholas Desmaison

Marcus Efstratiou (Hook and the Twin)

Tom Havelock (Hook and the Twin)

Yann Heckmann

Macha Kassian

Zahra Mani

Bhasker Patel

Daniel Pick

Nathalie Richard

Christopher Simpson

James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ismail Merchant – Merchant Ivory

Sharon Armstrong-Williams and Sue Hoyle.

Deb Barnard, Sarah Cartwright, Suncica Getter, Anna Higgs, Isobel Mortimer and Eve Poole.

Maureen Ryan

Bernard O’Donoghue and Robert J. C. Young

Institutions and Organisations:

Colin Finbow and The Children’s Film Unit

Samenua Sesher and the Museum of Colour, Oxford

The Arts Council of England

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

The Clore Leadership Programme

Creative England

CRR Global

The Encounters Film Festival, Bristol

The Film and TV Charity

The Hidden Persuaders Group, Birkbeck

The London Institute of Psychoanalysis

The London Library

The New York Indian Film Festival

Relational Dynamics Coaching

Screen Skills

The Tongues on Fire London South Asian Film Festival

Washington DC Asian Film Festival.

The Wellcome Trust

For their support of my work (which has ranged from housing me to reading drafts, crowdfunding and cosigning student loans) I want to thank:

Nasser Aslam

Gillian Beer

Hugo Bronstein

Marina and Shaukat Fareed

Mariam Faruqi

Sara Suleri Goodyear

Shaista and David Hickman

Philippe Honore

James Ivory

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ismail Merchant

Tara and Mary Mulholland

Florian Mussgnug

Zahra Nigah

Radhika Piramal

Nasreen Rehman

Vikram Seth

Bapsi Sidhwa

Bruce and Louise Starzenski

Yasser Toor

Sylvia Whitman