Claire Fowler is a writer-director from Wales, and 'Mum's Not In' is her final project in completion of her MFA. After studying at Oxford University and the Royal College of Art she made a number of human rights-themed documentary films which screened at festivals internationally, including the Sheffield Docfest, the International Human Rights Watch Festival and the International Film festival Rotterdam. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright commission, the PEO foundation, South West Screen, the British Council and the Academy Foundation. She is currently working on her third feature length screenplay, a script that shares many of the same preoccupations as 'Mum's not in' and hopes the short will contribute to her ambition of realizing the feature in the not so distant future.

A dual national raised in England and now living in New York, Andrew has produced short films on both sides of the Atlantic, and so has an acute understanding to putting together productions in unusual environments. Most recently, Sweet Virginia, produced in December 2008, screened at the Seattle International Film Festival. He is has four shorts premiering this year including 'Exit' starring Julian Glover, filmed in Colchester, England, as well as 'Mums Not In' and 'Lucky Duck', both playing in this year's festival. He is serving as an Associate Producer on Four, a feature film executive produced by Neil Labute to be shot in June 2011, and working his Columbia thesis film, to be shot in New Mexico in October.