Rachel is a BAFTA award winning filmmaker with extensive short film and TV directing experience. She trained as an actress and directed theatre at Bretton Hall College (Leeds University) before completing a MA in Film Direction at the Royal College of Art. She’s made nine shorts, financed by a range of funders such as LFVDA, UKFC, Film Four and Anglia TV. She’s sold her shorts internationally to many TV stations winning numerous awards, such as from Clermont-Ferrand, DepicT, R.T.S, Brest and Encounters Festival. She won her BAFTA for the BBC drama OFFSIDE and won another R.T.S for GIRLS IN LOVE.

 

Rachel's most recent short ('I'll Tell You') won at Encounters Film festival (Best of SW) and it was BAFTA long-listed. She attended the Cinefondation screenwriting residency in Paris (Cannes film festival) and attended the 2008/9 Guiding Lights scheme. Her directing mentor was David Yates (Harry Potter). She was on the BFI scheme ‘Think, Shoot, Distribute’ alongside Andrew Haigh (‘45 Years’) and she was accepted onto the Creative England ‘Elevator Scheme’. Rachel won the Nick Darke screenwriting awardfor her feature script CUB, which had Tim Spall and Helen McCrory attached in principle. CUB was selected for the Berlinale Talent Project Market. She is currently working on WAKE UP, a Sci-Fi feature, a co-production with Sam Price, Post Prod supervisor on DR WHO and she is developing a ScI-Fi idea MAPPED

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Rachel is also working on THE SHIPS ABOVE ME (65 Wilding films. Prod Alex Thiele,) and is seeking a team for DISORDER (comedy). She is based in Bristol and is a part time Senior Film Lecturer