Biography

Debs Paterson is a film and TV director - recent credits including HALO (Amblin / Paramount+ / Showtime), WILLOW (LucasFilm / Disney+), THE BASTARD SON AND THE DEVIL HIMSELF (Imaginarium / Netflix). Debs was honoured with a best debut directing BIFA nomination and named a BAFTA Brit to when her first feature AFRICA UNITED was released (Pathé / BBC Films) in 2010. In 2017 she was the first female director on the action-heavy TV series STRIKE BACK, igniting a love of shooting character-led action. She was selected by JJ Abrams and Kathy Kennedy in 2018 to document the making of the final film in the STAR WARS trilogy of trilogies, spending a year with the production in Pinewood, on location and at Bad Robot in LA. Her documentary THE SKYWALKER LEGACY was listed by Slash Films among their best films of 2020 and is now streaming on Disney+. Debs was instrumental in creating BAFTA's Elevate programme - focussed on closing the hiring gap for female directors in high end TV. Elevate is now in its fourth cohort across various disciplines and has had tremendous success in pushing the needle in diverse hiring, thanks to the brilliant and tenacious Bafta team. Debs is passionate about big screen spectacle, and loves to subvert subconscious bias (particularly regarding gender and race) in her work. She also  occasionally writes screenplays. She is represented by Geoff Shaevitz at Entertainment360 and Ellen Jones and Wilhelmina Ross at CAA.  

Credits

Halo 2 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 2, Episode 1   Director 2022
Series 2, Episode 2   Director 2022
Willow 2 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2022
Series 1, Episode 4   Director 2022
Bastard Son And The Devil Himself, The 2 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 7   Director 2021
Series 1, Episode 8   Director 2022
Discovery Of Witches, A 3 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 3, Episode 3   Director 2021
Series 3, Episode 4   Director 2021
Series 3, Episode 5   Director 2021
Domina 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 6   Director 2021
Skywalker Legacy, The 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
-   Director 2019
Harlots 2 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 3, Episode 7   Director 2019
Series 3, Episode 8   Director 2019
Strike Back 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
Series 6, Episode 6   Director 2017
Africa United 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
-   Director 2010

Other Credits

AFRICA UNITED (Pathé/BBC Films) SINGLE FILM View
Description Year
Theatrically distributed feature film - World Premiere, TIFF 2010 - Red Carpet Gala, BFI LFF 2010 - Nominated, Best Debut Director, BIFA 2010 2010
STRIKE BACK (Cinemax/HBO/SKY) TV Series View
Description Year
First female director of the long-running action series Cinemax/HBO/Sky series produced by Left Bank 2017
THE SKYWALKER LEGACY Feature Documentary View
Description Year
A feature film documentary about the making of the last film of the Skywalker saga, following the journey of the making of Star Wars IX in dialogue with never-before-seen archive from the original LucasFilm trilogy. (Disney/LucasFilm, 2020) 2020

Awards

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