New Creatives Meet The Film Creatives

New Creatives

Meet the Film Creatives

Meet the participants of our New Creatives Film scheme.

Each of these 16-30 year olds are located in the South East, and are working through their journey on this scheme from idea to distribution. As our scheme carries on, we will be updating each of the pages after each call, so stay tuned for more information.

Hover over the images below to find out more about the individuals and click on them to see their work. For more New Creatives, click the pink buttons below.

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New Creatives Film - Call 4

Nick Willis

Director/Writer (19)
Speak for Herself

Nick Willis is a young actor and artist based in the South East. His New Creatives film ‘Speak for Herself’ is his writing and directorial debut. Fascinated by high-concept films, Nick is passionate in creating stories with intriguing and captivating concepts. As an actor, Nick has performed in a variety of stage productions, including ‘Ageless’ by Benjamin Kuffuor at the National Theatre in 2019. With his first film being commissioned by the BBC at only 19, Nick is striving to create more thought-provoking work in the future.

Solomon Triffitt

Director/Writer/Animator (23)
Wastemen

Solomon is a freelance artist with a focus on traditional techniques. Working primarily on paper animation and painted cel, his art style draws from classic cartoons and experimenting with mediums. As well as directing his own work, Solomon operates art studio FLATWORLD CARTOONS with his brother Benjamin where they specialise in animated music video commissions and cover artwork projects. Solomon also co-runs annual London animation festival Drawhouse with collaborators Calvin O’Neill and Zachary Downes.

Emma Zadow

Director/Writer (28)
Jigging

Emma Zadow is an actor/writer having trained at Rose Bruford College. She won the Fresh Ink Screenwriting Mentorship under Last Conker & Well Tempered Productions, 2022. She is an alumni of Soho Theatre Writers Lab & Mrs C’s Collective. Emma has been commissioned by Les Enfants Terribles, Actors of Dionysus and a Theatr Clwyd Bursary Winner. She has been shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award, Vault Five Award & ETPEP Awards. Her plays are published with Renard Press. As an actor, she most recently appeared in Octopus (Fig Films/BFI). She has performed her spoken word at Almeida, Arcola & Shoreditch Town Hall. Her previous comedy short film was selected for Cinemagic, London World Wide Comedy Shorts, Norfolk Film Festival, Craic Film Festival, HER International Film Festival & BFI Academy Winter Season. Her BBC New Creative short is based on her experience of homelessness. She is interested in telling womxns stories through a rural working-class lens.

Alice Humphreys

Director/Writer/Animator (28)
Authentic Sardines

Alice is a visual artist who specialises in animation, illustration and storytelling. In her work she looks to blur the line between reality and imagination. In 2015 she began as a filmmaker, working on a wide range experimental videos, including a range of shorts for Channel 4 Random Acts, including ‘One Falling, One Diving’ - a creative dance piece, which won the ‘Best Experimental Short Film’ award at the BFI Future Film festival in 2017. She went on to direct her own short film for Channel 4 Random Acts, where she presented a female roller-derby team through a dreamlike and surreal lens. She has had 3 commissioned animations, two from the Arts Council England and the most recent from BBC New Creatives.

Michael Eferakorho

Writer (21)
Views from Our Generation

Michael Eferakorho who goes by name, ‘Spoken By Michael’, is a poet and spoken word artist. He is Nigerian-British , raised in Dartford and believes in the power of spoken word to express emotion, passion and voice injustice. He speaks on a range of topics with the sole purpose of making a difference at any scale.

Jimmy Babalola

Director (30)
Views from Our Generation

Jimmy joined Molifilms (an award-winning film production company) in 2014 as a financial investor and assisting the executive producer. He helped them to diversify cultures and to bring about collaborative partnerships. During this period, he gained learning experience of film-making from production to post-production, including Directing. In 2019 Jimmy founded GTown Talents, a talent agency set up to give young people something to do in their hometown Gravesend, Kent. The company is designed to connect young artists with musical interests with one another, offering free spaces to record and share their experiences. Jimmy has also produced dramas and written screenplays for the agency participants. With a true passion for highlighting powerful subjects on youth culture and giving back to the community, Jimmy has hopes of producing mainstream feature films in the future.

Edward Heredia

Director/Writer (24)
Papercut

Edward Heredia is a Colombian up-and-coming Director. After studying Fine Art in Saudi Arabia, Edward moved to the UK where he earned a degree in Film and Moving Image Production at the Norwich University of the Arts. Edward began his career in the film industry working as a camera assistant and a freelance director across narrative fiction, commercials, music videos and art films. In 2020, Edward completed his first short film “DUELO” - an exploration into the effects of trauma in the context of grief - currently on the festival circuit.

Yero Timi-Biu

Director/Writerr (28)
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Yero Timi-Biu is a British-Nigerian writer-director for TV and film with projects for BBC Three, Channel 4, BFI and Sky. Yero is also a story editor for audio and worked on ‘The Bias Diagnosis’. Her award-winning short films ‘Signs’ and ‘Beneath the Surface’ have played at international festivals such as Encounters, Aesthetica, BFI Future Film Festival and New York’s Animation Block Party. Yero has original shows in development with various indies, and is one of Edinburgh TV Festival's prestigious 'Ones to Watch' candidates for 2020. Yero’s work focuses on the stories of underrepresented women, especially exploring the effects of isolation and loneliness in society through comedy and drama.

Bea Cartwright

Writer/Director (26)
Mad Smooth

Bea Cartwright is an art historian and filmmaker. She is currently writing a PhD at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, whilst directing her first short film ‘Mad Smooth’. Bea is commissioned by BBC Arts and Arts Council England, with support from SheMakes Productions and Screen South. Bea’s filmmaking is driven by the narrative threads of real events, brought to life on-screen through research and artistic response. She enjoys working with female-led teams across art film and documentary.

Adekemi Roluga

Director/Writerr (22)
Exhale

Adekemi Roluga is a writer-director based in the UK, who thrives on telling minority stories focusing on diversity, social realism, injustice and sexuality in any and all creative forms. She is alumni of the BFI and NFTS Film Academies and BAFTA Mentorship schemes. In 2020, she graduated with a first class honours degree in Media Production from Bournemouth University and her graduate short ‘FRAGMENTS’ has gone on to screen at various festival worldwide, where she had sat on panels or delivered workshops about her creative work.

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Shaun Mendum

Writer/Director (25)
The Jacket

Shaun is a writer and actor with a passion for storytelling. He began his artistic journey as a ballet dancer and has since worked in theatre, TV, film, and as a movement director. Credits include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hans Peter in The Nutcracker, Andrew in Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV, and Harry in ‘Game Day’, as well as Alonzo in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical CATS. In 2019, he wrote ‘The Party' which featured in the anthology play, ‘The Faces in One Day’ at the Southwark Playhouse, and Next Stop: Zurich for the Colour House Theatre. He was also featured in The Writers’ Forum literary magazine. The Jacket is his first piece written and directed for TV or Film. He is currently studying acting at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts, where he continues to write new work.

Jemima Hughes

Director/Writer/Animator (29)
Unbound

Jemima Hughes is a disabled and deaf filmmaker/animator. She speaks with an electronic communication aid, understands primarily through BSL, and accesses her computer using assistive technology. She is keen to see the voices and creativity of disabled people better represented in the media. While at school and college in Newcastle, Jemima made her first films with 1Voice, the Tyneside Cinema, Living Streets and BBC Video Nation. She then developed her filmmaking and animation skills at Touchbase Care, a centre for disabled adults in Folkestone, and through online courses. Unbound is Jemima’s third commissioned cut-out animation. Imagination (2016), inspired by Matisse, was made with Screen South for Channel 4 Random Acts, screened at twelve festivals and included in the BFI Disabled Britain on Film collection. Technology for Talking (2019), about electronic communication aids, was commissioned by BBC Ideas, selected for seven festivals and won three awards.

David Hubbard

Writer/Director (23)
The Audition

David Hubbard is a Norfolk-based young writer and director, who loves to explore topics around faith and creativity. Having studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, David spent his university career investing in a varied written portfolio, including published short stories and a self-published debut novel. David works primarily as a freelance copywriter where he brings his love of storytelling to brands and consumers across the UK, but he is keen to build a career in filmmaking.

Harry Binstead

Director/Writer (22)
Sentient

Harry has had experience as a filmmaker in a range of departments. He has worked on a mix of professional and highly skilled student crews, ranging from commercial adverts to NFTS graduation films. His two previous professional directing credits, a Channel 4 Random Act and a short funded by Adobe were great stepping stones for his BBC New Creatives short, Sentient. He has made an effort to learn how to work in each department so that as a director he can understand the best way to work with his creative collaborators.

Devon Armstrong

Writer/Director (23)
The Clinic

Devon has been directing short films since age 16. During her philosophy degree, she spent more time on set than in libraries during her three years at Oxford. She has spent the last 6 years gaining experience on professional film sets as an AD and production assistant, also directing theatre productions and music videos. Having graduated hungry to get out into the industry, she has travelled Southeast Asia shooting promotional videos for hostels and charities in Bali and Myanmar. Devon is moving to Berlin this year to study directing at the Met Film School. She has a love of music and contemporary comedy, and, inspired by the cinema of Greta Gerwig and Andrea Arnold, she hopes to tell compelling untold stories in a unique and expressive way.

Christine Ubochi

Director/Writer (23)
The Skin I Move In

Christine is a London based creative, with keen interests in uplifting the voices of those from underrepresented groups in society. Recently graduated, she currently works as a Shadow Director on Alice Seabright’s new show, CHLOE. Her next goal is to create a TV show based on her family.

Chloe Kennedy

Writer/Director (22)
Dream Insomniac

Chloe Kennedy is a writer and director based in the South East of England. She is a recent graduate from the University of Exeter, where she studied English. Having worked on multiple short films and music videos including ‘Dream Insomniac’ and ‘Robyn’, Chloe has a particular interest in creating sensuous cinema, celebrating women and minorities.

Oliver Mariager

Director/Writer/Animator (19)
Sensory Chaos

"Oliver is a british neurodivergent artist/animator based in east kent. His passion lies in art, cartoons, and animation. Oliver is a writer/director whose autodidactic endeavours seek to educate and stimulate empathy and humour. His current animation short "sensory chaos" portrays his experience of anxiety and hopes it gives support to the spotlight on mental health. Oliver hopes that this commission will be a catalyst for further opportunities and collaborations within the creative industry."

New Creatives Film - Call 2

Sophie Gresswell

Writer/Artist (28)
Where Are You From?

Sophie Gresswell is a visual artist with a particular interest in identity and exploring the ways in which we as humans communicate, miscommunicate, manipulate and perceive. Graduating with a BA in Fine art from the University of Northampton in 2012, Sophie then travelled on an artist residency to Shenzhen in Southern China in 2013. More recently she was part of the Testbeds program in 2017 at the University of Bedfordshire. In 2018 Sophie was awarded Arts council funding to create a responsive installation entitled ‘Luton Journeys’. In 2019 Sophie worked with young people to develop a projection installation for The Dunstable Centre and was also the associate artist for ‘Lutopia’ a socially engaged digital art event commissioned by Luton Council as part of their People Power Passion arts and culture program.

Katerina Holmes

Writer/Director (18)
Speak to Me, Listen to Me

Katerina (Kitty), is a filmmaker, wheelchair user and Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) user. In 2019 she attended the Resource Productions BFI Film Academy Network Course at Pinewood Studios. Her work often seeks to challenge, and provoke thought within audiences, as well as being of a very high standard due to her dedication to her craft and motivation. She is currently studying at Treloar’s College. SPEAK TO ME, LISTEN TO ME is her first film.

Xavier Singer-Kingsmith

Writer/Director (23)
Unapolagetic

Xavier SK is a passionate filmmaker and choreographer who is interested in work that inspires social change and instils empathy. He gets excited by stories that educate, challenge and allow audiences to put themselves in other people’s shoes. In 2017 he completed his BA Hons degree at Falmouth University gaining a 1st in Dance & Choreography. Since then, he created a short film for Random Acts called The Kaleidoscope Boy in partnership with Channel 4 and Screen South. It has been screened at U. Dance and Encounters film festival. This year he choreographed and performed his own solo work Join the Dots for Brighton Open Air Theatre and The Chateau.

Josh Merritt

Director/Writer (30)
Breathe

Josh is a neurodivergent writer and director of stage, screen and wireless. Listed as one of The Guardian's 'Five to look out for'. He was recently invited to screen his short film 'Echoes' at Salford University, where a psychological conference and panel discussion was centred around it. His work has featured on BBC Radio, been screened at the British Film Institute, in London's Olympic Park, on TV, and played to packed houses of hundreds at London's Arcola Theatre. He was one of the Barbican's Young Filmmakers for two years, producing numerous short films - one of which won 'Best Film Noir' in Shooting People's 'Sin City 2' competition, culminating in a mass multimedia show that was rated ***** by The Independent.

Katie Bonham

Writer/Director (30)
Selfie Stick

Katie Bonham is a multi-award-winning writer and director. Bonham’s work has been globally recognised for its poignant and original vision through combining social commentaries on Britain within a variety of genres. Her short films have screened at film festivals worldwide, including two world premieres at Frightfest Horror Film Festival. Her work has also prominently featured during various pop-up cinemas in support of mental health awareness week. Bonham has received various accolades for her short films, but most recently her work was nominated for the prestigious Méliès d'Or award at Sitges International Film Festival in association with the European Fantastic Films Federation.

India Plummer

Director/Writer (24)
Ding, Ding - Next

India Plummer is a young actor, writer and director. She graduated from Guildford School of Acting in 2018 where she met the future members of Mint Face theatre company. India starred in the company’s first film Juno. India is currently collaborating with Screen South New Creatives scheme, BBC Arts and Arts Council England on Mint Face’s first commissioned short, Ding, Ding – Next, which is her directorial debut. India hopes to carry on creating relevant, original work and collaborating with the individualistic, wonderful people in the arts sector. India Plummer is represented by The Foundry.

McKenzie Alexander

Director/Writer (24)
Ding, Ding - Next

Mckenzie Alexander graduated from Guildford School of Acting in 2018 in Acting. He has since co-founded a company that produces works of theatre and film. The company, Mint Face, are collaborating on the project Ding, Ding - Next on the Screen South New Creatives scheme in alliance with BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Mckenzie has previously worked as a theatre practitioner taking his work through the UK and Europe, and has worked as an actor across theatre, film, and music video platforms. Mckenzie aims to create pieces of work which trigger audiences to think more broadly about our current social climate, working towards a kinder future. Mckenzie Alexander is represented by The Foundry.

Audain Thompson

Director/Writer (26)
A Conversation with My Enemy

Audain Thompson is a young writer-director, developing his voice in the creative industry. With a strong academic background he is looking to continue his journey within the creative industry. A Conversation with my Enemy being his first short film, he is looking to use this as a catalyst to help him achieve his ambitions within the industry.

Anita Pico García

Writer/Director (23)
What a Circus

Driven by her passion for art, film & design, Anita Pico's first short 'Camille' won the Audience Award at Durham Film Festival. Born in Spain, she graduated with a Summa Culm Laude Degree in the United States, moving to the United Kingdom to pursue her film career. Her new short 'Blacks or Whites' recently premiered at the British Film Institute in London.

Joshua Hext

Director/Director (25)
This Camera is Broken

Joshua is a Filmmaker, Production Designer and Costume Designer based in the South East of England. He has worked on productions for Adobe, Channel 4 Random Acts, National Film and Television School, Warner Bros and the BBC. He studied Art Direction with the Film Design Institute under Terry Ackland-Snow (BATMAN, ALIENS, LABYRINTH). For his directorial efforts he has won ‘Best Film by a Filmmaker under 25’ at Fish-Eye Film Festival and been named one of ‘Top 15 Filmmakers outside of London’ by Levile magazine.

Catriona Carswell

Director/Animator (22)
Headless Population

Catriona is a recent graduate from Norwich University of the Arts. She has worked on four animated films: Producer and animator on NORWICH LOVE LETTERS which has screened at festivals and events across Norwich; SMOKE, her graduate film, is a story about loneliness and materialism, and screened at the Curzon Cinema; she produced and animated on ERROR, a CG film about humans in the future relying on technology too much, to a fatal end; She has also worked on THE BIG UP, a what-if comedy about gravity not working, as background artist and animator.

New Creatives Film - Call 1

Jordan Buckner

Writer/Designer/Director (28)
When the Tides Went Down

I am a working artist and animator, born in a dead part of England, and making work about what that means. I've been working as a freelancer on a variety of animation and illustration projects for the past five years, but recently, things changed, and I'm now working independently on more personal things. Outside of my practice, I lecture in Art Direction for Animation at the University of Portsmouth, and teach Digital Painting at the University for the Creative Arts.

Zac Spearman

Writer/Director (23)
Through a Screen Darkly

Zac Spearman is an aspiring filmmaker with a background in human and social geography. He’s Interested in watching and making character and psychological-oriented drama.

Chris Dunleavy

Writer/Director/Animator (27)
It's Not the End of the World

Chris Dunleavy is an animator and director from Essex, graduating from Norwich University of The Arts in 2013. He has worked as an animator and motion designer for over 5 years. For the past two years he has worked with Edge film and animation company Agile Films as an animator and visual effects artist, working for brands such as Adidas and AT&T

Marcus Forde

Writer/Director (20)
Our Largest

Marcus Forde is a writer and director, eager to find out how far he can bend reality. He is currently studying for a BA in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. 'Our Largest' is his directorial debut, and he hopes to continue exploring themes of whimsy, boredom, and the surreal in future work.

Isabel Palma

Director (30)
Manmade

Isabel Palma is a British-Spanish writer, director and artist based in Oxford. With a background in Fine Art, she studied languages and literature before deciding to focus her artistic practice exclusively on filmmaking. Isabel's previous work includes the recently completed short drama Runaway, about to start its tour of the film festival circuit, and Abby Elvis, currently nearing completion. Drawing on her fine art roots, her directing style combines striking visuals with intimate storytelling and strong choreographed or performative elements. Her goal as a filmmaker is to tell universal stories from a unique or new perspective, questioning narratives we've heard before by subverting them.

Simi Abe

Writer/Director (21)
Black Fish

After studying Creative Writing at university, Simi Abe aspired to write for film and TV. However, driven by a love of stories and a fascination for film, she decided she wanted to both write and direct which led her to applying for the BBC New Creatives Scheme.

Rehmat Rayatt

Director (29)
Terra Firma

Rehmat Rayatt is a photographer and filmmaker with a background in documentary. Her photographs have been published in The Guardian and The Telegraph and exhibited at the Southbank Centre London, and her films have been selected and won awards at film festivals globally and been shown at BFI London as well as broadcast on Sky Arts.

Sian Fan

Writer/Director (27)
Spirit Corp.

Sian Fan is an emerging artist working in digital media, installation and performance. She works with movement, the female body and technology to explore the relationship between the organic, the metaphysical and the virtual. Sian has exhibited her works internationally at spaces including Tate Modern, British Council, ICA, Sluice and Firstsite. She is currently studying a Fine Art Masters at Central Saint Martins, where she has been awarded the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship.
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