The Equity List Team

Founder

Mahalia John (she/they) is our founder. She works as a Clapper Loader in features and commercials. Finding themselves on majority white sets for 99% of their career, Mahalia started The Equity List to try and make a difference in our small but culturally impactful industry.

Head of Operations

Lali Coombes (they/them) is our Head of Operations. Lali works as a Clapper/Central Loader in Features and HETV. They run the essential admin side of TEL including our many many emails!

Social Media & Events Manager

Ant Belle (they/them) is our social media manager. Ant works as a Camera & Lighting Trainee and runs our instagram account!

Social Media Coordinator

Bella Thompson (she/her) is a camera assistant and future Oscar winning director. Bella facilitates L&S camera workshops alongside assisting with social media and events for TEL.

The L&S Team

We run most of our workshops, events and training courses in collaboration with L&S (Lou & Samara). You can find out more about their “How To Become A Camera Trainee“ Workshop on our events and training page.

Lou Macnamara

Lou Macnamara (they/she) is a Focus Puller and aspiring Camera Operator who set up ‘Becoming a Camera Trainee’ workshops at Focus24 with Samara Addai.

You can check out their work here

Samara Addai

Samara Addai (she/her) is a clapper loader and videographer who works across short form content. She’s like avocados and noodles and runs L&S with Lou.