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After eight years as Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, she spent two years as Director and Curator of Film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. On returning to the UK, she produced her first feature, Defence of The Realm, for Enigma Films. She then joined Columbia Pictures as a Senior Vice-President, after which she spent two years as Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC. In 1990, she co-produced The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, which won the BAFTA for Best Film in 1991, plus four other BAFTA Awards and an Oscar® Nomination for Editing. In 1992, she returned to independent production, producing The Snapper (winner of, among other things, the Goya Award and the Prix Italia) and The Van, both directed by Stephen Frears. The Van had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. She also produced When Brendan Met Trudy, written by Roddy Doyle and co-produced Killing Me Softly, directed by Chen Kaige. In 2004, she joined the National Film and Television School as Head of Fiction Directing. She continues to work as an independent producer and is currently co-producing a remake of Defence of The Realm with Jason Newmark for BBC Films, Studio Canal and the BFI.