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© Yvette Farmer UK
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  • Attended Directors UK workshop 'Our Professional Story' with Ann Booth-Clibborn on 24 Feb 2021

    Qualified as St John's Ambulance Vaccinator Volunteer to help administer Covid-19 vaccine in my community

  • 2021 slate

    <> Original TV drama 60min NETTLES Pilot + ep 2 scripts + UK treatment + US pitch
    <> Original supernatural-psychological thriller feature VITA outline into 90min script
    <> Original short film 10min BLEACHED spec script + UK treatment

  • X ANNIVERSARY has been invited to screen as part of an art film festival following its international festival run. Strangelove Festival's Kent Kino curated by Ben Barton is online for 1mn from 28 Nov 2020. Here's the film's mialongblog review by art film critic Dave Andrews

  • Thrilled X ANNIVERSARY's online platform Premiere is on Directors Notes, 25 Nov 2020 alongside my Interview answering DN's thoughtful thematic + technical Qs

  • X ANNIVERSARY's Australian premiere screens online 19 Jul 2020 3:00pm ET. The GIFF Q&A where I answer Qs from actor Keeley Forsyth on the film + my craft is on IGTV

  • X ANNIVERSARY is Female Voices Rock Film Festival's "Short of the Week" w/c 6 Jul 2020. I enjoyed telling them the inspirations behind the film in my Spotlight Interview

  • 2020

    X ANNIVERSARY is now an award-winning short film!
    Official Selection + Best Cinematography award win Shore To Shore Film Festival Attended awards + screening 14 Mar @ Studio Movie Grill, Los Angeles USA
    Official Selection + Best Actor award win Catfish Shorts Film Festival Attended awards + screening 15 Feb @ Whirled Cinema, London UK
    Official Selection Geelong International Film Festival Australia Screening online 19 Jul + prerecorded Q&A
    'Short of the Week' Female Voices Rock Film Festival New York, USA Online 6 Jul alongside Filmmaker Interview

    Gained Screenskills Covid-19 Awareness On Production Certificate Updated module passed Dec 2020
    Gained Safe Sets Covid-19 Level A Certificate (International)
    Gained Screenskills Tackling Harassment & Bullying In Workplace Certificate

    Completed Masterclass Writing for TV online course by Shonda Rhimes
    Participant in Page Craft's Writer's Room workshop Demystifying the TV Writer's Room with Liz Hara (Life In Pieces)
    Joined Film Fatales LA webinar In the Writer's Room with TV Writers + Directors including Sian Heder (Little America, Orange Is The New Black), Nijla Mu'min (Queen Sugar) and Cherien Dabis (Ozark, Empire)
    Joined BAFTA TV Sessions webinar Making of The End of the F**king World with Exec Producers, Directors, Actors and Exec Producer + Writer Charlie Covell

    Joined Film Fatales LA webinar Episodic Directing for TV and the Post-Pandemic Future with Anu Valia (Mixed-Ish), Dawn Wilkinson (Empire, How To Get Away With Murder), DeMane Davis (Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker) and Maggie Kiley (American Horror Story).
    Joined Screenskills + Directors UK webinar Craft of Multi-Camera Directing TV Studio Comedy with Barbara Wiltshire (Inside No.9)
    Joined WFTV webinar Directing Intimate Scenes with Intimacy Co-ordinator Lizzy Talbot

    Joined WFTV webinar In Conversation with Kate McCullough, Director of Photography on Normal People, BBC + Hulu
    Joined Film Fatales LA webinar Storytelling Through Editing with TV Editors including Shannon Baker Davis (BlackAF, Queen Sugar)
    Joined BAFTA TV Sessions webinar Craft of Editing Comedy and Drama with Editors including Dan Crinnion (Killing Eve)

    Joined Sundance Collab webinar Telling Your Story With Sound - A conversation with Alma Har'el (Honey Boy) + Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
    Joined WFTV webinar Post Sound in Film/TV with Nina Hartstone (Black Mirror)
    Joined WFTV webinar Music in TV Production with Alisha Lazare from Channel 4

    Joined WFTV webinar VFX & Animation in Film/TV with Lucy Ainsworth Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Hanna)

    Participant in JMK Trust's workshop Working with Non-Traditional Theatre Texts with Tinuke Craig
    Participant in Young Vic Theatre's workshop The Designer and Director Working Relationship with Khadija Raza
    Attended Young Vic Theatre workshop A Designer's Process - Nora: A Doll's House with Tom Piper

  • 2019

    Workshopped a short film idea with actor Ryffin Phoenix
    exploring an Indigenous American character's story with Ryffin under the guidance of her Utah-based Navajo community in Dec

    In Los Angeles Nov + Dec to attend AFI Festival + catch local theatre

    Observed Theatre Director Chris Sonnex collaborate with Playwright + TV Writer Anna Jordan and direct rehearsals of We Anchor In Hope at The Bunker Theatre

    X ANNIVERSARY
    Official Selection + Best Cinematography Award nomination Underwire Festival
    Attended awards + screening 16 Sept @ Castle Cinema, London UK
    Official Selection for Kerry Film Festival
    Attended screening 20 Oct @ St Mary's Church, Kerry Ireland
    Official Selection for Margate Film Festival
    Attended screening 23 Oct @ Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate UK
    Official Selection for Filmstock 12 International Film Festival
    Screening 22/23 Nov @ Youthscape, Luton UK
    Selected for Directors UK + Spotlight's Directing Actors workshop
    Festival Formula submitting my new short X ANNIVERSARY feat Keeley Forsyth to international film festivals now..

    Directed two theatre pieces for Wolab's HAPPY EVER AFTER? showcase at The Bunker Theatre feat Yu Heng Li + Rebecca Rayne

    Attended Young Vic Theatre workshops Incorporating Movement: Devising & Collaborating workshop w Kwesi Johnson + Voice: tools for Directors practical workshop w Cathleen McCarron + Dramaturgy in British Theatre workshop w Zoe Svendsen

    Applied for BBC New Directors scheme + Directors UK + ITV Studio's Multi-Camera Drama Directors Workshop
    Submitted original TV pilot to BBC Script Room Drama 2019

  • 2018

    Awarded Directors UK's Inspire Mentoring & Career Development Scheme

    Shadowed Film/TV Director Jill Robertson as she directed Harlots ITV/Hulu S2

    Shadowed TV Director David Lewis Richardson as he directed continuous drama
    Doctors BBC One

    Observed Theatre Director Hamish Pirie direct his tech/dress rehearsal of Instructions For Correct Assembly at Royal Court Theatre

    Selected for Euroscript Surgery with Feature/TV Writer Stéphanie Joalland at the
    London Screenwriters Festival

    Accepted for NFTS developing + pitching drama short course
    Accepted for Directors UK pitching workshop

    Official Selection music promo Keeley Forsyth THEN THERE CAME A TIME screening at Margate Film Festival ahead of my Margate shoot for next short film X ANNIVERSARY also feat Keeley Forsyth

    Pitched Lightening Talk round for Genesis Future Director Award at Young Vic Theatre

    Submitted original 30min TV drama pilot to 4stories

  • People Like You music promo [festivals + press]

    Williamsburg International Film Festival, NYC
    International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts (IFFCA), LA
    NewFilmmakers Fall series, NYC
    SoCal Creative & Innovative Film Festival, LA

    Press - Little Black Book article on Promo

    Promo News + selected for Videostatic's WATCH IT list

  • Keeley Forsyth music promo [festivals]

    NYLA International Film Festival
    NewFilmmakers Fall series, NYC
    London Independent Film Festival

    Promo News + selected for Videostatic's WATCH IT list

  • Driven short film [Screenings + Award nomination]

    DRIVEN short was nominated for 'Best Thriller' short film at the Limelight Film Awards

    DRIVEN short has been invited to screen before 'Barton Fink' (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen) at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art, London) as part of a series of films presented by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. After the screening, leading psychoanalysts (including Andrea Sabbadini, Chairman of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival) will discuss 'Barton Fink' while also referencing DRIVEN. I was invited to introduce the film.

    DRIVEN has been selected to be screened in New York City as part of the NewFilmmakers Soho Screening Series (British Film Program) at Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Avenue

    DRIVEN was selected for Supershorts TV broadcast (SKY 219)

    DRIVEN short film is available to rent or purchase on IndieFlix.com

  • Don't Try This At Home charity film [Award nomination]

    DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME charity promo for Changing Faces was nominated for 'Best Freefall' at the Limelight Film Awards



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