Ms Deborah Rowland (She/Her)

Deborah has over 30 years’ experience in marketing; theatrical, home entertainment & VOD distribution; international sales; TV; and exhibition. She has held senior marketing and distribution positions across the industry including: Koch Media, Artificial Eye, Curzon Cinemas, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Icon Film Distribution, Contender/EOne and The Pearson Group.

Deborah set up We Are The Tonic, an entrepreneurial distribution and marketing consultancy for sales agents, distributors and filmmakers, in 2013.  She was Head of Department at the National Film & Television School (NFTS) in the UK for 5 years, designing and delivering their ground-breaking MA in Marketing, Distribution, Sales & Exhibition, stepping down to make time to study another passion – Marine Biology. Having both film and fish in her life has made it truly complete!

She has delivered bespoke workshops and programmes for ACE Producers Forum, Berlinale, the British Film Institute, Cannes Film Festival, Creative England, CONNeXT Film Festival Belgium, Creative MEDIA Europe, Creative Scotland, Dublin Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, EFM, FICCI’s International Producers Meeting (Colombia), UK Film Distributors’ Association, Film For Cymru Wales, Film London, FOCAL Switzerland, Glasgow Film Festival, the Holland Film Market, iFeatures, Inside Pictures, Irish Film Board, JAFTA and JAMPRO (Jamaica), London Film School, London Screen Academy, Media Business School (Spain), Scottish Documentary Institute, the Soho House Group, Tallinn Nights Festival, University of Exeter.

After several years as an industry tutor and mentor for the University of Exeter’s MA International Film Business, she is delighted to now be a permanent Senior Lecturer for the course.