RYUSHI LINDSAY

Bio

Ryushi Lindsay is a British-Japanese filmmaker based between Britain and Japan, working across experimental non-fiction and non-experimental fiction film. His work has screened at festivals including Aesthetica (UK) and Short Shorts (Japan), while his 2019 documentary, Kokutai, exploring spectacle in Japanese high-school baseball, has just completed a run on MUBI.

In 2022 he took part in the BFI NETWORK Short Film Development Programme, writing an original short film – he is currently writing a treatment for a feature version: a contemporary mystery thriller set in the Scottish Highlands.

He also participated in the 2022 B3 Biennale Hessenlab, working on development of an installation film about the 1954 Daigo Fukuryu Maru incident. He is currently in post on a Japanese culture ministry-funded fiction short: a romance set in the 1930s in a traditional Japanese ryokan inn against a backdrop of rising fascism and impending world war, inspired by a true story.

TITLE OF FEATURE: CREST

When his colleague goes AWOL on the job, environmental officer Tommy is sent to take over the inspection on a major development project near his Highlands hometown. Whilst surveying the landscape for rare and endangered species which would halt construction, Tommy begins to suspect that his coworker didn’t simply disappear but was *deliberately* disappeared.

JULIE MAYHEW Bio

Julie is a journalist turned actress turned writer. She is the author of four Carnegie-nominated young adult novels, and is currently published by Bloomsbury, writing literary suspense for an adult audience. IMPOSSIBLE CAUSES (2019), featured in the New York Times’ pick of female-penned thrillers, while LITTLE NOTHINGS (2022) is being developed for TV by Hazey Jane Films.

An alumnus of the BFI Network x BAFTA Crew scheme, Julie has directed three short films: including offbeat romantic comedy UNKNOWN NUMBER (2019), which played at festivals in London, Paris, and LA.

Her original TV pilot OFF GRID was a Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2021 semi-finalist and one of six Studio21 Drama Series finalists showcased at Content London (the script was subsequently optioned). She has recently returned from Stowe Story Labs in Vermont where her naturalistic sci-fi feature script FOR ONLY AN HOUR was a selected project. Representation: Yasmin McDonald, United Agents.

TITLE OF FEATURE: MADGE

The almost true but most definitely audacious, riches to rags to riches story of Madge Sayers – the British woman who single-handedly brought down the patriarchal structure of the formerly men-only sport of figure skating, scoring a lasting victory for women on ice. Or did she...?