I am a writer-director with a firm grounding across the film value chain. I have an MFA in Directing from the Film Program at Columbia University in New York. At Merchant Ivory (makers of "A Room With A View" and "Remains of the Day") I worked in production, development and distribution for four years. I have also worked at a high level in film policy research and film journalism.
I have written and directed shorts, music videos and documentaries. In 2021 I completed an hour long documentary about the philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (a Birkbeck/Daniel Pick Commission funded by Wellcome). My first documentary "David Hawkins: A Battle of the Mind" (another Wellcome/Birkbeck/Daniel Pick commission) was nominated for AHRC Research Film of the Year. I am working on my first feature film with BBC/BFI support (it was selected for iFeatures - Creative England’s flagship development lab - in 2018) and continue to develop other fiction and documentary projects with support from BBC Films, the BFI Screen Skills and The Film and TV Charity.
I am driven by curiosity, excellence and a love of beauty and justice. I am interested in psychoanalysis, culture and how relationships shape our paths in life. I was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where I studied English and directed student plays. In 2015/16 I was selected to be an ACE Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme; during my fellowship I pursued extensive training (in coaching, finance and governance), was mentored by Anna Higgs and had a work placement at the ICA. I live in Cambridge with my husband and children and write about movies when I am not making them.
I am able to work as a self-shooter and speak fluent Urdu/French and decent Spanish/Italian.
