LAURA JAYNE TUNBRIDGE

Bio

Laura Jayne Tunbridge is a BAFTA-nominated writer and director from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.

Laura has written numerous award winning shorts. They include, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DREAD which won an Annie Award and an RTS Award, and was nominated for a BIFA and a BAFTA. Short animation OTHER HALF, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2021 and won Best Animated Short at Sitges. Her live action shorts include REQUIEM, which won an RTS Award and KISS CHASE, which was nominated for Best Screenwriter at Underwire.

In 2020 Laura wrote and directed DRAGGED UP, starring Gaby French. The short was selected for festivals including Encounters, Inside Out and Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Short. DRAGGED UP was nominated for Best British Short at the BAFTA-qualifying Iris Prize and has been broadcast twice on Channel 4.

Lorna Tucker

Bio

Lorna started her career creating promos and tour videos for bands such as UNKLE, Lupe Fiasco and The Cult, as well as experimental video and has created video art projects for the likes of Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Nike, Redbull and ShowStudio. Lorna was recently named as one of Creative England’s CE50, included in the Evening Standard’s list of London’s most influential people, and was named by Harper’s Bazaar and Elle Magazine as one of the five biggest breakout female filmmakers of the year.

Her first feature documentary, WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST, debuted at the 2018 Sundance Film festival. Her second feature documentary, AMÁ, took 9 years to bring to fruition and is a gentle yet powerful film about the sterilisation abuses of Native American women across the United States over the past 60 years. Lorna is currently in production on a Netflix Docudrama on Katharine Hepburn. Coming out later in 2022 is SOMEONE’S DAUGHTER, SOMEONE’S SON, a character led theatrical documentary that explores what it takes to end homelessness, as Lorna looks back at her own homeless experiences, those who have survived it, and a few of her friends still there.

Margo Roe

Bio

Margo Roe is a director, writer and choreographer from the Midlands.

Her career started with a theatre commission from the The Lincoln Company, co-directing a physical theatre piece for the TLC’s Edinburgh Fringe Tour 2014. In 2016 she was commissioned by Channel 4/Creative England Random Acts programme to direct and choreograph NAME, a short dance film now available on All4.

Margo’s short film SEARCHING FOR COWARDICE was created as part of the BBC New Creatives programme and broadcast as part of BBC4’s Female Filmmakers screening. SEARCHING FOR COWARDICE is now being adapted as a TV series with BFI Young Audience Content Fund and was selected for the Torino Series Lab 2021.

Margo’s BFI Midlands short film POP has screened at BAFTA and BIFAqualifying festivals and was placed in the top three of the Iris Prize 2021’s ‘Best of British’ category.