Arvind Ethan David

Arvind is head producer and CEO at Slingshot, the next generation film company which he co-founded in 2005. Arvind leads both business and creative strategy, and has served as a producer on all of the company’s films to date – SUGARHOUSE, FRENCH FILM, FAINTHEART and TORMENTED.

Immediately prior to Slingshot, Arvind served as Commercial Advisor to Headline Pictures, the production company set up by Mark Shivas, Stewart Mackinnon and Kevin Hood. Between 2003 to 2004, Arvind was Interim Managing Director of Ruby Films, working to Oscar-nominated producer Alison Owen. In 1999 he founded and ran hahabonk, one of the UK’s early internet entertainment companies producing more than 100 short animated films and interactive games for cable television and broadband internet, in the course helping to launch the careers of such comedians as Jimmy Carr, Mackenzie Crook and The Hollow Men.

In addition to his career as producer and entrepreneur, Arvind is also a qualified solicitor, and an occasional writer of prose and plays: his stage-show DIRK, based on the Douglas Adams character, won three prizes in the 2007 LA Weekly Theatre Awards.

Uzma Hasan

Uzma is Development Producer at Slingshot where she has worked across project selection, development and packaging on all of the company’s films and most recently was Associate Producer on Slingshot’s latest feature TORMENTED.

Uzma sits on the selection committees for Mira Nair’s MAISHA Labs and the British Independent Film Awards. She is London Chapter Head of Harvardwood, the official network of Harvard alumni in the entertainment and media industries.

Prior to joining Slingshot, Uzma was producing music promos and commercials. Whilst in New York, she supported the Executive Producer and Special Events team at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and worked with Focus Features and Mirabai Films on the post production of Mira Nair’s film VANITY FAIR. Before moving into film, Uzma was a public relations consultant to international corporations such as NEC and Verizon and helped launch mCubed Magazine in the US, an arts and cultural magazine aimed at young Muslim professionals.

She graduated from University of Wales, Cardiff with a First in English Literature and went on to study Film and Literature at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Stewart le Maréchal

Stewart le Maréchal is a BAFTA winning producer at Met Film.  He is currently in production on The Infidel, starring Omid Djalili and Richard Schiff, which is co-produced with Slingshot.  His first feature as producer, French Film, was released in May ‘09.  Little Ashes co-produced by Stewart and directed by Paul Morrison was also released in May ’09 simultaneously in the USA, UK and Spain and feature documentary Heavy Load, which Stewart also co-produced was released in theatres in October ‘08 and screened on the BBC in Feb ‘09.  Prior to that he co-produced the feature documentary, Deep Water, for Pathé, FilmFour and the UKFC.  Stewart was the associate producer on Paul Morrison’s Wondrous Oblivion.

Stewart is developing a slate of features including Foxglove written by brother and sister team, Kate and Ornette Spenceley which is being financed and developed through Film London’s Microwave scheme and The Walk written by Jonathan Pett & Fiorella Ruas.

He is an experienced producer and executive producer of short films which include the BAFTA winning September by Esther May Campbell and award winning The Last Client, Circles, Swindles & Slim and Auto da Fe, which have all been screened on the international film circuit.

Stewart is a member of the ACE producers network and BAFTA.  In addition he is a board director of Hi8us South, a company that gives young people the opportunity to learn and express themselves through the creation of innovative participatory media.