Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Helen discovers that images of her have been digitally manipulated, deep-faked, into sexually explicit and violent scenarios on a porn site, and goes on a journey to understand what has happened to her.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023
Official Selection Krakow Film Festival 2023

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This film explores what happened in the 1940s London when two women of different generations, but both fighting anti-colonialism, came together to put their fervour and imagination into writing a revolutionary play.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 - International premiere

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A laird in Scotland, who presides over a palace and 4500-acre estate, is attempting to redress the imbalance of land ownership in Britain by handing it over to the community. This film follows his journey as he grapples with his own egalitarian ideals and the inevitable friction that comes with huge upheaval.
Official selection Bolton International Film Festival 2023 - UK premiere

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In TRUST ME, a short documentary blending animation and live-action recreations, a young woman uses humour and compassion to reclaim the story of her bipolar diagnosis and a traumatic betrayal by family and friends, using film to pave her journey towards self acceptance and challenge everyday stigma.

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Maria is a successful Swedish TV presenter whose life is turned upside down by shocking accusations made against her husband. To avoid the media attention, they head south on sabbatical. However, an unexpected confrontation triggers a desperate chain of events. Alone, Maria flees to the solitude of the English Moors, but her new idyll soon turns to paranoia. As her guilt grows, she is forced to examine the depths of her own self-deception in this psychological suspense drama about identity and perception.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A love story set in Scotland and London that follows the romance between Kira and Ian, who met too briefly over a winter weekend while on the run from themselves.
Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) 2023 - First Feature Competition - International premiere

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Comfort posits frustrated workers in an anxious landscape, partnering conventions of period dramas with the voice of a shifting protagonist: a cleaner.

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The story explores self-discovery and healing, using containers as a metaphor for safe spaces. Through 2D animation and stop motion, it constructs a poetic narrative, reflecting sensibility and identity fragmentation with pottery and clay.
Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2024

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Stella drops in on a one-night stand Jacob to tell him that she’s going to abort his baby. Jacob gallantly gives her a lift to the clinic.
Official Selection Flickerfest 2024 - International premiere

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REGENERATION tells the story of how the mining industry came to an end, including discussion around the miners' strike of 1984-1985. The film also includes archive footage, interviews, and a picture of what life is like now in the Dearne Valley.

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During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

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An intimate film portrait of British punk singer-songwriter and Libertines’ legendary front man, Pete Doherty, as he plunges into the depths of addiction at the very height of his popularity. Over a period of 10 years, Doherty was intimately filmed by director-musician Katia deVidas. We experience, in the artist’s own words, Doherty’s moving and emotionally charged fight to overcome his demons and emerge from darkness back into the light.
Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2023 - World premiere