Netflix UK’s Teresa Moneo Joins Edinburgh Film Festival Executive Board

The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has added three new members to its executive board and promoted current trustee Amy Jackson to the position of Vice Chair. This move is part of the festival’s latest round of expansion hires.

Teresa Moneo, Director of UK Film at Netflix, Isla Macgillivray, Partner at Saffrey, and Romana Ramzan, Producer at No Code Studio, will now join the board. Current board members include Andrew Macdonald of DNA Films, who serves as the chair, and Peter Rice, former Chairman of General Entertainment at Disney and President of 21st Century Fox. Amy Jackson, producer of Aftersun, has been newly appointed as Vice Chair.

“I am thrilled to be joining the EIFF Board and to be working with my fellow board members,” said Moneo. “Our combined experience across the industry will ensure a bright future for EIFF as it champions new filmmaking voices from Scotland, the UK, and around the world.”

This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival will run from Thursday, August 15, to Wednesday, August 21. The festival agenda includes 37 new feature films and 18 world premieres. Ten of these world premieres will be competing for the newly established Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence. Additionally, the festival will feature four special retrospective screenings and five short film programmes, including the new Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence competition. An in-conversation event with filmmaker Gaspar Noé is also scheduled.

EIFF 2024 is supported by Screen Scotland and the British Film Institute’s Audience Projects Fund, which awards National Lottery funding. The Industry Programme receives backing from EXPO funding from the Scottish Government through Creative Scotland.