Film
Spotlight
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Charlotte Regan
5th September 2018
The Hackney-born writer-director took her film Dodgy Dave to the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival with our help, and took time out to answer our probing questionnaire.
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Ayo Akingbade
8th October 2018
We talk New York, watermelons and Freaky Friday with the artist and filmmaker, whose latest short, A is for Artist, is screening at the BFI London Film Festival.
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Georgi Banks-Davies
14th August 2018
The director, who models herself on Ferris Bueller and would like Gal Gadot to star in the film of her life, reveals her film influences.
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Dionne Walker
19th July 2018
One of the UK’s up-and-coming producers talks about her recent British Council-supported trip to the Shanghai International Film Festival.
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Catherine Allen
3rd July 2018
The VR pioneer and director of Limina Immersive, a VR curation and exhibition startup and British Council partner, whose goal is to make VR more accessible, talks us through her reality.
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Elizabeth Hobbs
26th June 2018
Meet the east London experimental animator, who was the subject of a retrospective at the 2018 Edinburgh Film Festival, where we support the McLaren Animation Award.
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Flora Gregory
10th May 2018
The project director of Global Short Doc Forum, which held its British Council-supported inaugural workshop series in May 2018, discusses her career.
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Lucia Bulgheroni and Lennard Ortmann
3rd May 2018
We spoke to the director and producer, who graduated from NFTS with their stop-motion animation short Inanimate, which was selected by Cinéfondation at Cannes 2018.
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Zhannat Alshanova
1st May 2018
The London Film School graduate and writer/director of short film End of Season, which was selected for the Cinéfondation section at Cannes 2018, discusses her professional life.
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Jenn Nkiru
17th April 2018
The director of eye-popping short Rebirth is Necessary discusses her thoughts on sound, vision and blackness.
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Jodie Azhar
3rd April 2018
Lead technical artist at game development studio Creative Assembly discusses her work and the games that have influenced her.
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Manon Ardisson
15th February 2018
The God's Own Country producer, who was one of 2018's Berlinale Talents, talks to us about her film favourites.
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Harry Lighton
13th February 2018
2018 has see the writer-director take his short film Wren Boys to Sundance and the BAFTA awards. He chats to us about his life in film.
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Anna Maguire
11th January 2018
The actress and director of award-winning short film Your Mother and I reveals her influences and what she's working on at the moment.
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