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Christopher Miles was born in London in 1939, studied filmmaking in Paris and directed his first professional film in 1962. He went on to make over twenty films, working in both cinema and TV. His best known work is “Priest Of Love” (1981) a feature film on the life of D H Lawrence, starring Ian McKellen as Lawrence. A later project, “Love in The Ancient World” (1997) was both a TV series and a book. Christopher Miles died in 2023.

George T Lemos is English with Greek heritage and resides in London. He studied at RADA under the tutelage of Doreen Cannon. In the 1990s he produced a series of short films which won awards and he worked as an executive producer for Seven X, a Greek television company. He wrote, produced and acted in a pilot for a travel-com TV series. 

In 2012, Lemos founded his production company Marblemen. Their first major production was the critically acclaimed film festival award winner Wild Duck (2013), a feature film drama that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. 

This was followed by a major feature documentary in the USA, The Pulitzer at 100 (2016) directed by Oscar winner and two -time Emmy winner Kirk Simon. The documentary included appearances by Martin Scorsese, Helen Mirren, John Lithgow and Natalie Portman. 

The following year, he co-produced Amerika Square (2017) a feature drama which was chosen to represent Greece at the 90th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The Hollywood Reporter called the film “one of the best European films to date on the subject of immigration” It won several awards including a FIPRESCI. 

Presently, he is in development of a new motion picture to be shot in the UK in 2027. 

Alberto Bona is an Italian photochemical filmmaker. Working under the nom de plume ‘Arepo‘, he has directed several 16mm short films including Contemplazione and Piercing Stillness, as well as music videos for rock acts such as The Darkness. His work has screened at festivals including Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Analogica, and the Short Film Corner at the Festival de Cannes. Alberto’s latest short, The Ineffable Fixing of the Volatile, has received multiple awards, including the Jury Prize at Versi di Luce, Best Experimental Film at the Jane Austen International Film Festival and accolades from the Vienna International Film Awards and the Berlin Kiez Film Festival. 

Suzy Miles grew up in Chelsea and lived much of her life in London before moving to Wiltshire in 1993. After secretarial college, she worked as a secretary for the BBC Third Programme Talks Department, then studied Art and Interior Design at Hammersmith Art School. Following graduation she worked as an exhibition designer, and subsequently as a prop buyer and stylist for Chelsea filmmaker Keith Ewart. She married Christopher Miles in November 1967; their daughter Sophie was born in December 1970. 

Throughout her career she worked alongside her husband, occasionally producing paintings as props for his films, and undertook drawing and painting commissions, often of London gardens. In 1984 she was awarded a prize by Roger de Grey for her oil painting of the Chelsea Flour Mills, painted as part of the ‘en plein air’ artists’ protest against a proposed motorway along the Chelsea Embankment. In 1996 she designed and painted the set for Miles’s film adaptation of Plato’s Symposium, built in the barn at Calstone House and forming part of his film Love in the Ancient World. 

In 2004 she enrolled at Swindon College, completing a BA Hons in Drawing to Fine Art Practice. She subsequently became a member of the Calne Artists’ Group, exhibiting with them for many years, and worked at Rabley Printmaking Studios until 2020. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including the 2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. 

In 2017 she and Christopher moved to a Georgian house in Devizes. Their daughter Sophie died on 26th December 2018, and Christopher on 15th September 2023. His memoir, Carrying the Can, written during his illness, was published on 18th November 2025.