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X-Pollinator is delighted to announce six projects which have been chosen to take part in INCUBATOR, a brand new female-driven development initiative that aims to…
Read MoreHope completed her MFA in filmmaking at Columbia University where she made three short films that played at festivals worldwide. While in New York she was assistant to Todd Solondz on his film PALINDROMES. Hope’s award-winning thesis film, THE DAWN CHORUS, was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh, London and many other festivals. Screen International made her a Star of Tomorrow and Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the ’25 New Faces of Independent Film’. Since her return to the UK, she has made further acclaimed short works for Channel 4, Film London, the UK Film Council and the National Theatre of Scotland. Her debut feature THE LEVELLING, produced by Wellington Films as part the iFeatures scheme (funded by BBC Films, the BFI and Creative England) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016. At the London Film Festival she was awarded the inaugural IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award in Association with the BFI and in 2017 she won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Screenplay and was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. She is currently developing several features and is a co-founder of Raising Films – a campaign to make the film industry more parent-friendly. She lives in Scotland with her husband and two sons.
Hope is represented by Elinor Burns at Casarotto, Ramsay & Associates, and Keya Khayatian & Bec Smith at UTA.
http://hopedicksonleach.com/
FILMOGRAPHY
THE LEVELLING – 83 mins
Produced by Rachel Robey, Wellington Films
Starring Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton & Jack Holden
A family drama set in Somerset following the devastating floods of 2014
Commissioned under iFeatures scheme, funded by BBC Films, the BFI & Creative England
Completed June 2016
Winner BAFTA Scotland Best Screenplay 2017
Distributed in the UK by Peccadillo Pictures; in the US by Monterey Media
FESTIVALS:
Toronto International Film Festival
Moscow New British Film Festival
London Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Les Arcs Film Festival
Rotterdam Film Festival
Goteborg Film Festival
British Film Festival In Armenia
Bath Film Festival
Barcelona Auteur Film Festival
Baku British Film Festival
Bermuda Film Festival
Madrid ImagineIndia Film Festival
Belfast Film Festival
Lucca Film Festival
Crossing Europe Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Shanghai Film Festival
Helsinki Film Festival
Short Films
SILLY GIRL – 16mm, 2016
Written by Ellie Kendrick with Jason Barker, produced by Loran Dunn
Directed by Hope Dickson Leach
Based on a play by Ellie Kendrick written for the Royal Court. Commissioned by NOWNESS as part of their Define Gender series
WEDDING NIGHT – HD, 5 mins, 2011
Written and Directed by Hope Dickson Leach
Produced by Rosie Ellison
Starring Jordan McCurrach, Hannah Day & Robbie Mack
Created for the National Theatre of Scotland’s Five Minute Theatre, this was a one-take live piece of filmed theatre about the wedding night of Prince William and his bride. The audience played the paparazzi in the piece and shouted out to the actors playing William and Kate.
Currently it has been watched over 8000 times on YouTube.
MORNING ECHO – HD, 15 mins, 2009
Written and Directed by Hope Dickson Leach Produced by Geraldine Patten
Starring Kerry Fox, Peter Sullivan & Amelia Foster
Funded by Film London and the UKFC New Cinema Fund, as part of the Pulse Plus Scheme
Woodstock Film Festival
Branchage, Jersey International Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival – Awarded BAFTA/LA Certificate of Excellence in Short Film
Austin Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
London Short Film Festival – Winner, Best Female Character
Cinequest Film Festival
Wisconsin Film Festival
Latitude Film Festival
Regiofun Festival, Poland
Underwire Film Festival – Winner, Best Screenplay
SUBTITLES NOT INCLUDED – HD, 4 x 3 mins, 2009
Written by Hope Dickson Leach & Zoe Cartwright
Directed by & Starring Zoe Cartwright
Produced by Anna Higgs & Gavin Humphries, Quark Films
Broadcast on Channel 4, Nov 23-26 2009
PARLIAMO GLASGOW – HD, 23 mins, 2008
Directed by Hope Dickson Leach
Written by Stewart Thompson
Produced by Vicki Patterson & Jack Ravenscroft
Starring Edyta Budnik, James Grant, Jamie Quinn and Ann Downie
Produced as part of the Coming Up scheme, by IWC media and Touchpaper TV Broadcast on Channel 4, 30 Sept 2009
Nominated for BAFTA SCOTLAND NEW TALENT AWARD – FICTION
VOICES: 3MW – HD, 4 x 3 mins, 2008
Directed by Hope Dickson Leach
Produced by Gavin Humphries & Anna Higgs, Quark Films
Written by and featuring Young People from Kids Company & Foundation 4 Life
Broadcast on Channel 4, Jan 12-15 2008
THE DAWN CHORUS – 35mm, 15 mins, 2006
Written & Directed by Hope Dickson Leach Produced by Jennifer Westin Starring Valerie Shusterov & Henry Glovinsky
It’s been seven years since the plane crashed, but Bonnie and Lloyd are still searching for their parents in the wreckage.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Boston Film Festival
DC Shorts Film Festival
Student Shorts Film Festival, Toronto
Austin Film Festival – winner, Best Student Narrative Short Film
London Film Festival
Three Rivers Film Festival, Pittsburgh – winner, Best Short Film
Sundance Film Festival
Britspotting ’07
Nashville Film Festival
Stony Brook Film Festival
Shout Charlotte Film Festival
Ozone Film Festival, New Orleans
Cucalorus Film Festival
Encounters Short Film Festival
The Now Film Festival (online) – Finalist, Best Short Film
Shortlisted for 2008 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
LADIES IN WAITING – s16mm, 11 mins, 2005
Written & Directed by Hope Dickson Leach Produced by Lizzie King Starring Lalage Lumley
Nina and the other new 12-year-old girls at her English boarding school must visit the school doctor for a check-up. As they wait outside the doctor’s office, wondering what will happen inside, allegiances are born, and broken.
Reel Venus Film Festival, New York
Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival, Florida Staten Island Film Festival Boston Film Festival
Garden State Film Festival
Three Rivers Film Festival – Kodak Finalist Hi Mom! Film Festival Student Shorts Film Festival, Toronto
Special Mention for Innovation from Cannery Works Festival for Emerging Filmmakers Development Award from Milos Forman Fund
CAVITIES – 16mm, 13 mins, 2004
Written, Directed, Edited and Produced by Hope Dickson Leach Starring Valerie Shusterov & Julie Kessler
13 -year-old Nina hates her Mom, her thighs and the ill-fitting bridesmaid dress she must wear tomorrow at her mother’s wedding. When her Mom has to help her out of the dress, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
Prends Sa Court! Montreal Olympia Film Festival
Hi Mom! Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
New York Short Film Festival
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