Amongst the founders are the film critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode, film-maker Simon Miller, and academics Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond.
The festival is founded by film critic and broadcaster, Mark Kermode, film professor, Linda Ruth Williams, film writer and director, Simon Miller, writer and illustrator Jo Cockwell and film historian, Mike Hammond
Simon Miller writes with his wife, Joanne Cockwell and has collaborated with several Scottish Gaelic writers including: Aonghas Macneacail, Ian Finlay Macleod and Angus Peter Campbell.
Film Director Simon Miller, Max Bleyleben, and Alex Nunes are also in the founding team.
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The Christian Post writer Josephine Vivaldo said films on Family Movie Night on NBC/FOX often include values and moral lessons, but that Who Is Simon Miller? "proved that they can also make it about car chasings, multiple identities, cryptography, secret agents and action-packed entertainment minus the severe violence".