Polly Steele
Biography
Polly is an award winning UK based, independent, film-maker renowned for her ability to tell the most compelling and sensitive stories. She has made films for all of the UK’s major broadcasters, & produced/developed fiction as MD for Rocket Pictures with Elton John and David Furnish and for her own company In Trust Films.
She is currently writing a drama series for Deeply Superficial (Thierry Lachkar) aimed at the int co/production market: Les Femmes de Guerres (women in occupied Paris during WWII). She is also shooting a doc feature: The Price of Freedom with Mac Maharaj, Mandelas only living cell mate and developing her next feature film: the screen adaptation of Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams which is a best selling Picador classic. Niall has adapted the book with Polly directing. Mark Rylance/Gabriel Byrne/Emily Watson and Michael Gambon are attached as the leads.
She wrote and directed Let Me Go starring Juliet Stevenson and Lucy Boynton, with Radiohead’s Philip Selway composing. It was selected to premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2017 and was released in the UK through Evolutionary Films. It has won several awards and is being distributed worldwide by Red Arrow Int.She was commissioned by Good Films to write a full length screenplay entitled The F**K it Button.
Documentary directing work has included BAFTA award winning Video Diaries (BBC),Tantrums & Tiaras the inside story of Elton John’s life, shortlisted for a BAFTA (itv), Kofi Annan – The Eye of the Storm (BBC2), Extraordinary People – the Worlds Youngest Surgeon, shortlisted for the Grierson Award(C5), In the Arctic with Ewan McGregor, (Best Indie Documentary), Eastside Story, a revealing portrait of Ray Lewis’s controversial Eastside Youth Leaders Academy (Current TV and Festivals) and most recently a film for BBC2 on Rich Russians in London.
She has also worked extensively for the Elton John Aids Foundation making films with Elton to support their work all over the world.
As a feature producer she was a co-founder of Elton John’s Rocket Pictures where she produced Women Talking Dirty starring Gina McKee and Helena Bonham-Carter and also began to develop animation blockbuster Gnomeo & Juliet, along with a slate of other films.
As a visual artist, May 2012 saw a major exhibition of Polly’s video portraits commissioned for the opening of London’s newest Mint hotel. Her subjects included Tony Benn, Jason Isaacs and star of The Wire, Michael K Williams. She has subsequently also shot a series called WHO AM I, the portraits of eight women.
She is currently writing a drama series for Deeply Superficial (Thierry Lachkar) aimed at the int co/production market: Les Femmes de Guerres (women in occupied Paris during WWII). She is also shooting a doc feature: The Price of Freedom with Mac Maharaj, Mandelas only living cell mate and developing her next feature film: the screen adaptation of Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams which is a best selling Picador classic. Niall has adapted the book with Polly directing. Mark Rylance/Gabriel Byrne/Emily Watson and Michael Gambon are attached as the leads.
She wrote and directed Let Me Go starring Juliet Stevenson and Lucy Boynton, with Radiohead’s Philip Selway composing. It was selected to premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2017 and was released in the UK through Evolutionary Films. It has won several awards and is being distributed worldwide by Red Arrow Int.She was commissioned by Good Films to write a full length screenplay entitled The F**K it Button.
Documentary directing work has included BAFTA award winning Video Diaries (BBC),Tantrums & Tiaras the inside story of Elton John’s life, shortlisted for a BAFTA (itv), Kofi Annan – The Eye of the Storm (BBC2), Extraordinary People – the Worlds Youngest Surgeon, shortlisted for the Grierson Award(C5), In the Arctic with Ewan McGregor, (Best Indie Documentary), Eastside Story, a revealing portrait of Ray Lewis’s controversial Eastside Youth Leaders Academy (Current TV and Festivals) and most recently a film for BBC2 on Rich Russians in London.
She has also worked extensively for the Elton John Aids Foundation making films with Elton to support their work all over the world.
As a feature producer she was a co-founder of Elton John’s Rocket Pictures where she produced Women Talking Dirty starring Gina McKee and Helena Bonham-Carter and also began to develop animation blockbuster Gnomeo & Juliet, along with a slate of other films.
As a visual artist, May 2012 saw a major exhibition of Polly’s video portraits commissioned for the opening of London’s newest Mint hotel. Her subjects included Tony Benn, Jason Isaacs and star of The Wire, Michael K Williams. She has subsequently also shot a series called WHO AM I, the portraits of eight women.
Credits
| Let Me Go | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Rich, Russian And Living In London | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Baboon Woman | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Genetic Sexual Attraction | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Keeping The Peace | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Extraordinary People | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Lena | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Shocking Family Secret | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| In The Wild | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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| Correspondent Special | 1 episode | View | |||||||||
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Non-Directorial Credits
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