Rebecca Manley

Selected as a BAFTA Guru Pro Emerging Talent in Film 2016, Rebecca is an award-winning director working across commercials, digital content and short film. Her work is bursting with imagination and creative flair. Whether the medium be animation or live action, the tactile, handcrafted quality that characterizes her filmmaking approach give her unique worlds, and the characters she creates, a universal appeal. Rebecca has directed and designed multiple spots for some of the world’s top brands including Starbucks, Hersheys, Google, P&G, Sony, Kraft, and FIFA. In 2010 she worked with Richard Curtis and Comic Relief creating the short film ’20 Centres for 2010’, which screened as part of the World Cup opening ceremony alongside performances from artists Shakira and The Black Eyed Peas. In 2016 her Fairy Liquid cinema commercial for P&G and Make a Wish Foundation made Campaign magazine’s ‘30 years of Fairy ads by Grey London’ a list of the agency's most memorable ads. ‘Table Manners’, a short film that Rebecca wrote and directed for Channel 4’s Random Acts picked up the Best Green Production award at Going Green Film Festival LA, a Vimeo Staff Pick, the VOTD Video of the Day award, 3rd place in Shooting People’s Film of the Month and earned her a Best Director nomination at Underwire Festival. Rebecca’s short films have also won the DepicT! Audience Award at Encounters and Best Animated Short Film at Kino Fest. She is based in London and represented for commercials and branded content by Independent/Indy8 who have recently formed a partnership with Aardman animation studio.