Roland Joffé is an English film director who started out directing television. His early TV credits included episodes of "Coronation Street". He gained a reputation for hard hitting political stories with the series "Bill Brand" and factual dramas for "Play for Today". His first two feature films ("The Killing Fields", 1984, and "The Mission", 1986) each garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

Iain Smith was born in Glasgow in 1949 and graduated from the London Film School in 1971. He worked in London for several years before returning to his native Scotland to make "My Childhood", for the British Film Institute, the first of the award winning trilogy by the late Bill Douglas. He formed his own production company in partnership with Jon Schorstein and produced television commercials, documentaries, children's feature films and low budget dramas, …

Jim Allen (1926 - 1995) was a British writer from Manchester known for his many collaborations with film director Ken Loach. Allen was a Roman Catholic from the Miles Platting area of Manchester. He worked as a miner and became convinced of Trotskyism. He joined the Revolutionary Communist Party, and as a member of a successor organisation, The Club, he edited a rank and file newspaper "The Miner", which rapidly ran foul of the authorities.

Grandson of sculptor Jacob Epstein. Has one daughter with actress Cherie Lunghi, Nathalie Lunghi (full name Nathalie Kathleen Lunghi-Joffé), born 26 August 1986. Has one son with actress Jane Lapotaire, Rowan Joffe, born in 1972.

Roland Joffé - Director Norman Dorme, John King - Set Designers