Annarie Boor is co-founder and director of Tapping Frog, and leads 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.
Within Mentor Through Film, Annarie shapes how productions are made and how people are supported to do their best work in them. Her experience on both sides of the relationship — as performer and as director, as educator and as filmmaker — informs the learning that happens on set.
She holds a QTS qualification and is a specialist in Special Educational Needs and Disability, working with young people and adults with additional needs. That expertise is central to the inclusive environment MTF is building: understanding that people do not all work, learn or regulate in the same way, and that the right adjustments allow more people to do their best work.
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 sets up productions so that people can learn on real cameras, sound and editing, and explains the decisions behind each stage — including why post-production choices are made — so participants understand the whole process, not just their part of it.