Vaughan Sivell is an Award Winning Producer, Exec Producer, Director and Writer. He runs Western Edge Pictures and the Gennaker Group, a suite of media finance companies based in Wales and London.

After establishing a successful TV writing and development career, Vaughan’s first feature film, THIRD STAR starring Benedict Cumberbatch, became a break-out hit in 2011 engaging passionate fans around the globe. After placing highly on the Brit-List, the script was also nominated for a BAFTA Cymru.

Vaughan then focused on growing his diverse production slate and establishing an independent finance base. WEP + Gennaker co-productions to date include; THE CANAL (Dir. Ivan Kavanagh) which premiered at Tribeca in 2014, multi-award winning short BALCONY (Dir. Toby Fell Holden), PREVENGE (Dir. Alice Lowe) which opened Venice Critics’ Week in 2016 and RARE BEASTS (Dir. Billie Piper) which premiered at Venice Critics’ Week in 2019.
More recently, he produced and executive produced the docu-series GAZZA for the BBC, which won an RTS Award in 2023, and the narrative feature TIMESTALKER by Alice Lowe, due to be released in 2023.

In 2015 Vaughan made his directorial debut with MR CALZAGHE, an epic documentary about the Welsh Boxing legend. Financed by Gennaker, the film was released by eOne, and won three BAFTA Cymru awards including Best Director (Factual) and Special Achievement in Film Craft.

His follow up to this was PISTORIUS, the story of the Paralympic and Olympic athlete and convicted murderer set against the political backdrop of South Africa. This much anticipated 4-part documentary series was released globally by Amazon in 2018 to great acclaim. Vaughan is now developing his narrative feature debut, CRUSADERS, which pitches as ‘A Butch and Sundance set in 1190’.

Vaughan is represented by Sean Gascoine at United Agents.

Franki Goodwin is CCO at Saatchi & Saatchi and an Executive Producer at Western Edge Pictures, overseeing the marketing and audience strategy of all the films on WEP’s slate. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, she spent the first part of her career running boutique film marketing agency 'Franki&Jonny', making ground-breaking  campaigns for the film industry. Since then, she has worked across numerous award-winning film, entertainment and brand campaigns, winning over 80 international advertising awards including 9 Cannes Lions for 'Sea Hero Quest', a game that brought together scientists and gamers to revolutionise dementia research. 

You can follow Franki on Twitter 

Natan Stoessel is an Executive Producer & Producer at Western Edge Pictures, managing WEP’s day-to-day business activity and working on the development, production, and post-production of WEP’s project slate.
Natan has a 1st class Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London and an Economics Postgraduate degree from the University of Cambridge.

Mike Rattenbury is Head of Legal and Business Affairs for Western Edge Pictures and The Gennaker Group. He is a qualified solicitor in England & Wales and has over ten years’ experience of corporate and commercial matters ranging from corporate finance to mergers and acquisitions. Mike is Executive Producer on all WEP / Gennaker titles.

You can also follow Mike on Twitter

Tom Wood is a Producer for Western Edge Pictures, working across the company's film slate. A Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2020, Tom began his career in development before moving into producing for Wellington Films and WEP. Tom has produced multiple short films, including BFI-backed short film SUDDEN LIGHT which was selected in the Official Short Film Competition at Cannes Film Festival 2020, won the Grand Prix at Cork and was nominated for a BIFA for Best Short Film. His latest, Film4-backed SUCH SMALL HANDS by Maria Martinez Bayona and based on the novella by Andrés Barba, was completed in 2021, longlisted for Best Short Film at BIFA 2021 and won multiple awards at festivals around the world including at Fantastic Fest Austin, Strasbourg Festival de films fantastique and Aesthetica.

For Western Edge Pictures, Tom co-produced RARE BEASTS in 2019, and in 2022, he was a producer on GAZZA, a docu-series about the life and career of Paul Gascoigne commissioned by the BBC.

Mark Hopkins is a Producer at Western Edge Pictures, having worked within the film industry for the past 15 years. Starting out as an Assistant Director and Production Manager, he has worked on a number of features including ‘Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy’ and both ‘Paddington 1 & 2'. He has also produced a number of award winning short films. 'That Night’ (directed by Chris Foggin and starring James Corden, Alexandra Roach) screened at the London Film Festival, and ’Shield 5’ (directed by Anthony Wilcox and starring Christian Cooke) won a number of awards at the Raindance Web Fest. He has since co-produced 'Kids in Love’ (directed by Chris Foggin, starring Will Poulter and Cara Delevingne) for Ealing Studios, and most recently produced ‘The Toll’ (directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper, starring Michael Smiley and Iwan Rheon) for Western Edge Pictures. 

Ty Francis MBE is a Welsh-American Executive Producer who advises on the wider finance opportunities and corporate structure of WEP. He moved to New York City in the mid 2000's where he worked at the New York Stock Exchange and founded the New York Welsh diaspora network.
In 2017 he was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth for his services to business.