Edwin Mingard

Artistic Director

Edwin is an award-winning socially engaged visual artist with ten years' experience delivering high quality moving image work. Alongside working at satellite, Edwin maintains a solo artistic practice that crosses illustration, photography, print and installation.

Edwin holds a Philosophy degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He curates moving image, and designs collaborative organisations in the arts sector.

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Bella Marrin

Studio Manager

Bella is an artist and writer based in London. Alongside working at satellite she is the editor of Fieldnotes, an artist run publishing project that produces a biannual print journal and a public programme of workshops, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. Founded in 2020, Fieldnotes aims to promote and support non-conforming creative practices that pioneer new cultural forms and collaborative ways of working.

Jerome Shyllon-Leonard

Studio Assistant

Jerome is UK based filmmaker working in narrative-based short films and socially engaged short documentaries for the past 2 years. Jerome currently works with the satellite team as a studio assistant and maintains a freelance career in which he continues to create narrative-based shorts and documentaries. His most recently commissioned work includes a four episode documentary series chronicling the issues of youth identity and mental health in young black individuals in collaboration with the prestigious Africa Centre. 

Jerome Holds a BA film degree from the SAE Institute in East London.

Dhelia Snoussi

Digital Curator

Dhelia is an artist, researcher and curator with a background in arts education and youth work. She is currently Youth Culture Curator at the Museum of London, working on the museum’s contemporary collecting project, Curating London. 

Previously, she authored a report with the Runnymede Trust and the Centre for Labour and Social Studies entitled ‘We Are Ghosts’: Race, Class & Institutional Prejudice. Before then, she co-developed transformative arts and political education programmes at Voices that Shake! 

Dhelia is also a Trustee at Granville Community Kitchen and a newly formed grants-making body SHED.

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Emma Grazette

Assistant Producer

Having worked on a Channel 4 series that shot around the world, Emma decided to pursue producing as a career. She now has several years of experience working as a producer at an Indie as well as producing independently, and working for Pinewood and Disney. She is currently studying an MA in creative producing at the National Film and television school to facilitate expanding her slate into feature-length fiction and HETV.

Her heritage and studies in Caribbean literature first piqued her interest in hidden stories, and the slate she’s developing is strongly rooted in Black history/ experience, and female perspectives. She is a champion for better diversity in the film and TV industry, has taken part in the BFI producer’s lab and is affiliated with The Independent Film Trust who is supporting the development of a project about British Caribbean history.

Usman Khalid

Project Co-ordinator

UK-based and originally from Pakistan, Usman has experience working in the migrant and refugee sector in a Marketing and Communications capacity. Prior to that, he worked with organisations like Counterpoints Arts and Music Action International, working with refugees and migrants in the arts field.

Usman recently finished MSc in Marketing Communications and also runs his own social enterprise, HAVEN Coffee, which supports and promotes refugee and migrant artists.