FILM MAKERS BIOGS
Nicolas Abrahams
Nick began directing pop videos for a diverse range of bands including the Manic Street Preachers, Leftfield, Huggy Bear, Stereolab, Cornershop, and recently collaborated with Icelandic rockers Sigur Ros on stage visuals, pop videos and three short films. He co-directed the feature length documentary 'The Posters Came from the Walls' with Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller , and is currently shooting 'Man Enough to be a Woman', with transexual icon Jayne County
Henry Darke
Henry graduated in 2008 from The London Film School where he was fully funded by a Skillset bursary. His graduation film 'The Lobster Trap' won the Lodz Media School Festival and secured him funding to make his second short, 'Big Mouth', a coming-of-age story about a deaf boy. This recently premiered at The BFI London Film Festival and is soon to screen at Brief Encounters. The feature film he is developing on Hothouse is inspired by the ‘Big Mouth’. He has recently been selected as a director on Channel 4’s Coming Up series.
Bille Eltringham
With screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, Bille established Footprint Films in 1993. In 1998, they co-directed their first feature, The Darkest Light (Pathe/BBC Films). As a director, Bille was BAFTA nominated for Kid in the Corner (Channel 4) and was awarded the 2001 Women in Film and Television Best Newcomer after her second feature, This is Not A Love Song (UKFC). She received her second BAFTA nomination for directing multi-award winning series The Long Firm (BBC TV). In 2007, she returned to theatrical features with Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution (Warner/UKFC).
Dima Hamdan
Dima is a Palestinian-Jordanian journalist based in London, who has written and directed four short films. Her latest production, ‘Gaza-London’, won the Best Arab Short prize at the 2009 Jordan Film Festival and has featured in several festivals in the US and UK, including the 2009 Cambridge Film Festival. Her first feature The Kidnap has been awarded the SHASHA screening writing grant by the Abu Dhabi Film Commission.
Felix Harrison
Felix is an LFS graduate who has worked in the film industry in various guises for producers such as Norma Heyman, Hilary Heath and James Richardson, and for directors such as Terence Davies. His theatre collaborations include ZooNation’s award-winning show Into the Hoods, which he co-created and co-produced. Felix is currently writing and developing a theatre show for ZooNation in association with Sadlers Wells, and directing music videos through a Wellcome Trust grant for an award-winning rapper and playwright.
Jonathan Romney
Jonathan is chief film critic of the Independent on Sunday and a contributing editor at Sight & Sound. He writes regularly for Screen International, Film Comment and is the author of a study of director Atom Egoyan and Short Orders, a collection of film writing. He also co-edited Celluloid Jukebox: Popular Music and the Movies since the 50s. His credits as writer and director include two short films, ‘A Social Call’ (2002) and ‘man goes to the doctor and the doctor says…’ (2001) in the Film Four/Dazed & Confused series 'Stop for a Minute’.
Jessica Townsend
Jessica established herself as a distinctive voice with Terms of Abuse, her first play based on the Fred West scandal, later commissioned as a feature by BBC Films. She has been writer in residence for Hampstead and that Nation Studio Theatres. She has been commissioned by most major broadcasters and recently she has turned her hand to directing, with four shorts now completed. Her first won the Best First Time Director Award at DC Shorts Festival and others have been shown in festivals across the world as well on NBC in the States. Last year she made the final shortlist for Film London's Microwave Feature scheme.
Kanchi Wichmann
Kanchi has been making short films since 1992. In 1999 her short Travelling Light came second for best film at the BBC British short film festival and was also nominated for a Bafta. In 2000 she was selected for the BBC/BFI Insight scheme to write and direct her first feature. Unfortunately in 2002 the scheme folded due to changes in film funding. She has worked in the Lux archive, many film festivals and teaching film & video to young people. Her first feature Break My Fall is due for UK theatrical release in spring 2011.
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