Annarie Boor is co-founder and creative director of Tapping Frog, and the lead mentor within Mentor Through Film. She began performing professionally at the age of eight and trained in performing arts and film before completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching at the Royal Academy of Dance. Her career has threaded the performing arts, education, and film together from the start — building departments and programmes internationally, founding ballet education in Zambia, and leading performing arts provision at Cayman International School, where she ran large-scale productions and international outreach partnerships.
Her work as a filmmaker — as writer, director, and producer — has produced three feature films under Tapping Frog's production slate, earning fourteen wins and thirteen nominations at international festivals including the Global Film Festival Awards, Oniros Film Awards, Accolade Competition, and South America Awards. Recognition across these has included Best Indie Film, Best Indie Filmmaker, Best Producer, and Best Director.
In the context of MTF, Annarie leads on performance development, script work, direction, creative positioning, and the full arc of what it means to develop a creative identity that the industry can engage with clearly. Her experience on both sides of the relationship — as performer and as director, as educator and as filmmaker — means she understands the journey from the inside at every stage of it.
She holds a QTS specialist qualification in Special Educational Needs and Disability, which informs her approach to differentiated development — the recognition that artists do not all develop in the same way, and that the most effective mentoring responds to how an individual actually learns rather than defaulting to a single pedagogical approach.
Simon Boor is co-founder and strategic director of Tapping Frog, and leads the production and technical dimensions of Mentor Through Film. His creative practice spans more than three decades — running alongside a parallel career in technology leadership — and within Tapping Frog's film output he has functioned as executive producer, producer, cinematographer, editor, sound designer, and production designer across all three of the company's features.
All three Tapping Frog features were produced with Simon behind the camera and in the edit: Being Grace, A Matter of Causality, and Icon of Betrayal. His craft credits on Icon of Betrayal additionally include sound design and production design. His cinematography and sound design work earned nominations at the South America Awards 2021, and he shared the Best Producer award with Annarie at the Global Film Festival Awards for A Matter of Causality.
Within MTF, Simon leads on the technical and production dimensions: cinematography for showreel production, the editing process — including the participant-facing element of understanding why post-production decisions are made — and the industry-facing knowledge of what production quality signals about a creative's seriousness and professional context. He also leads on the craft elements of directing for camera and the technical disciplines that theatre-trained creatives most often find unfamiliar when moving to screen.
His visual identity work — film posters, music cover art, book covers, and the broader graphic output of Tapping Frog — informs his understanding of how a creative's public presentation communicates intent before anyone has seen the work itself.