New Creatives Meet The Film Creatives

New Creatives

Meet the Film Creatives

We are happy to announce the first round of our New Creatives – FILM.

Each of these 16-30 year old’s 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 induviduals or click on one of the headings below to find out more about the other New Creatives

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New Creatives Film - Call 1







Sian Fan

Writer/Director (27)

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.







Rehmat Rayatt

Director (29)

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.







Simi Abe

Writer/Director (21)

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.







Isabel Palma

Director (30)

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.







Marcus Forde

Writer/Director (20)

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.







Chris Dunleavy

Writer/Director/Animator (27)

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







Zac Spearman

Writer/Director (23)

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.







Jordan Buckner

Writer/Designer/Director (28)

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.
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Click here to find out how you can apply for the New Creatives - South East scheme
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