JOSH SAUNDERS

Bio

Josh Saunders is a film director and animator based in South East England. His debut short film THE GREY HOUND won the Royal Television Society Award 2017 for postgraduate animation. It was nominated for the British Animation Awards People’s Choice Award 2018 and was picked for the BFI’s Best of Post Room 2018. THE GREY HOUND has screened at a variety of international film festivals.

Josh’s new work, commissioned by BFI NETWORK, centres around an allotment community in South East England and thematically addresses population displacement through the current refugee crisis and the positive effects of working outdoors whilst being part of an unlikely and richly diverse community. These are some of the things he has come to know and admire from allotments and what play an integral part in the makeup of English culture.

Based

Katie Sinclair

Bio

Katie Sinclair is a film and TV producer and executive based in London. She is currently Head of Development for Jude Law’s production company Riff Raff Entertainment. Her credits as development executive include Martin McDonagh’s THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, Andrew Haigh’s STRANGERS and LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER directed by Laure De ClermontTonnerre. She has worked in production and development at Blueprint Pictures, BBC Film, BBC Studios, Sugar Films, Disney and Lionsgate.

Her BFI NETWORK-funded short THE LAST DAYS – starring BRIDGERTON’s Adjoa Andoh — won Best Short Film at Fantastic Festival 2021, and is playing at Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying festivals across the world during its current festival run. Katie is also part of a collective that produces Canned Laughter, a charity comedy night that has raised over £100,000 for London’s food banks.

Based in: London Contact: ktsinclair04@hotmail.com