Collaborators
Regular collaborators from the Folkestone filmmaking community include:
Emelie Mahdavian
Director
Emelie is an Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at major venues including Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Berlin Film Festival, and Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center.
Garath Whyte
Director of Photography
Garath has worked on a wide range of high end TV, film and commercial projects as a Director of Photography. He specialises in natural history cinematography and is a regular contributor to projects for Nat Geo, Disney and the BBC. He has also worked as a camera operator on projects for directors including Edgar Wright and Edward Berger. As a director his films have screened at festivals including Aesthetica and Raindance.
Michael Griggs
Sound Designer
Michael is a sound designer with years of experience at Warner Bros De Lane Lea as well as on multiple independent and commercial projects. His projects have screened at London Film Festival, Aesthetica and Rhode Island Independent Film Festival.
Sharon Burrell
Writer / Producer / Director
Sharon is a writer / producer / director and also the founder of Hag Films. When lockdown halted her career in theatre, she retrained as a climate psychologist and now specialises in creating stories which encourage audiences to reconnect with the wild.