Meet the Team

Founder & Producer

Yasmine Alice

Yasmine Alice is the founder and producer of Bastet Productions. She is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. She moved to Brighton, UK in 2008 to attend law school. She graduated from the University of Sussex with a LLB Law with German degree along with a year abroad studying German Law at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonnand completed her Legal Practise Course at the University of Law Bloomsbury. She qualified as a lawyer in the UK and worked as an immigration lawyer for 4 years.

She was scouted online for a TV series in the year 2015 and she decided to quit her job as a lawyer and started working as a news correspondent and assistant producer for TV8 in London. Over the years she has produced, written, and starred in numerous documentaries.

She founded Bastet Productions in 2020 following the success of her very first narrative short, Anxious. Within 2 years, Yasmine has produced, some of which she has written, and sourced funding for 9 short films, 3 of which are still in post-production. Currently, Yasmine is developing her first feature film, Sugar Bill, a crazy western, which has gained the attention of a few executives.

Director/Writer

Andrea M. Catinella

Email: andreamariacatinella@aol.com

Andrea M. Catinella is a film director and writer from Italy. He studied Business and Management at Northampton University. He completed filmmaking courses with MET Film School, NFTS and Raindance.
As a Director/Writer, he has completed 2 short films that have gone to film festivals and won many awards internationally. He is inspired by real stories of human fragility and mental health difficulties. The characters he depicts in his stories are broken, fighting emotional battles to come to realizations about themselves. His style is influenced by the likes of Nicolas Refn, Sam Mendes and Christopher Nolan.
He has worked in the film and tv industry in various roles such as 1st AD and Production Coordinator for ITV, OR Media, Love Island, BBC, Marvel and Disney.

Executive Producer

Katerina Dimakopoulou

Katerina is a film investor, actress and psychotherapist, originating from Greece. She studied Drama and French Literature in Greece before moving to the UK where she acquired an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy with specialisation in Psychosexual Therapy. She is practicing psychotherapy for the last 18 years. She financed and actively participated in the London Greek Film Festival for 16 years and is a Patron of Raindance Film Festival. She started investing and acting in films after completing Producing, Acting and Filmmaking courses at Raindance and Theatro Ton Allagon Schools. She has invest in 2 films and acted in 3 more so far, whilst she is looking for creative and original ideas for films to invest in. She is particularly interested in stories involving mental health and women’s issues, as well as creative expression and reinvention.