Innocent: Trial and Error

Hannah Currie

Hannah is a twice BAFTA-winning and Grierson- and RTS-nominated filmmaker from Glasgow. Hannah’s past work includes films about poverty, mental health and suicide, racism, sexual assault, and LGBTQIA+ rights. Her most recent television project, Jailed: Women in Prison about women in custody saw her shooting and directing inside HMP Grampian and HMP Stirling, and the finished series of documentary programmes attracted over a million views on their first week on iPlayer. Hannah spent many years working for a mental health charity and has completed several Film in Mind sessions, shaping her sensitive and trauma-informed approach. Hannah is a passionate advocate for equality and diversity within the industry: she founded Jumpsuit Films to address gender inequality in the industry, and she directed Working Differently for Screen Scotland, based on promoting better understanding of neurodivergence in the film and television industries.

Sandra Leeming 

Sandra is a queer producer who develops and produces feature documentaries through their Glasgow-based company Sandslate Films. Recent productions include Silent Men (dir Duncan Cowles) which premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest 2024 and was awarded Special Mention by the Jury, and Doppelgangersx3 (dir Nelly Ben Hayoun Stepanian) which premiered SXSW March 2024. They have several projects in development, and two which are currently in post-production. Sandra has twenty years of industry experience including ten years at Dartmouth Films (London) as Head of Production and Line Producer. Before that, they managed hundreds of hours of factual content programmes at Fulcrum TV for all the main UK and International broadcasters.Sandra is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival.

Christopher Hird

Christopher Hird is a leading figure in UK independent documentary making. He is the founder of Dartmouth Films, which has pioneered new ways of funding, producing and distributing documentaries in the UK, as well as promoting the work of new and emerging filmmakers. Starting with Black Gold (2006) and The End of the Line (2009) he has executive produced a wide range of documentaries which aim to have in impact, including The Divide (2015), The Dirty War on the NHS (2019), Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son (2024) and Power Station (2025). He is a former chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, was the founding chair of doc society and is a patron of the Grierson Trust.

MOJO

The Miscarriage of Justice Organisation (MOJO) 
MOJO are a unique victim support agency based in Glasgow, dedicated to assisting innocent people in prison and following their release. The organisation was founded in 2001 by the late Paddy Joe Hill, one of the six men wrongfully convicted in 1975 for the Birmingham pub bombings. It is now led by CEO Scott Jenkins (pictured) and a board of trustees, and is partly staffed by trainee student lawyers whom MOJO hope to train to avoid and prevent the mistakes that underlie so many of today’s miscarriages of justice.

Miscarriages of Justice Organisation – Bringing Hope To The Innocent

Patrick Maguire

Patrick is a MOJO trustee, artist and author who was arrested aged 13 and wrongfully convicted along with six members of his family of making IRA bombs in the 1970s. He began drawing rudimentary cartoons in prison letters to his parents (each housed in separate jails) and gradually became more skilled at drawing throughout his time in prison. After release, like many victims of miscarriage of justice, he was plighted by PTSD, and lost his connection with art – until a stint in the Priory for mental health issues when he began creating again prolifically. He has since built up an immense portfolio of paintings and drawings and held a string of exhibitions. Though the ‘Maguire Seven’ had their convictions quashed in 1991, the reality is that many innocent people remain wrongly convicted, and Patrick is lending his art to our Crowdfunding campaign to help their plight.