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Aleksandra Sykulak is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter working across  fiction, animation and games. She was born and raised in Warsaw. Her  writing occupies the space between tragedy and comedy – always touching  on real, tangible feelings, but often through obscure, slightly ironic  scenarios. Aleksandra is a graduate of The National Film and Television  School, where she wrote numerous short films, many of which screened at  festivals around the world. She is also the author of a graphic crime  novel El Diablo and the director of a short documentary In A Knot, which  premiered at an Oscar-qualifying Kraków Film Festival. She is currently  developing both live-action and animated projects for TV and for film.

Alice Henley is an award winning Screen and Theatre Actress. She has worked with HBO as series regular Livia in "Rome", acted opposite Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg's "‪Eastern Promises‬" and was the lead in CBBC comedy "My ‪Almost Famous‬ Family". She toured Italy for six months with "‪Romeo and Juliet‬" and then moved to London permanently working as an actress, writer and producer..

She has co-written and produced short film "Another Day", which deals with the growing epidemic of male suicide, and has written, produced and acted in "Lal", the story of the East End girls who kept Britain going while the boys were away fighting World War II. She currently has two projects in development with her production company Henley Black Productions.