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Best Girl Grip

A weekly podcast interviewing women behind-the-scenes and below-the-line of the British film industry.

tv & film film interviews

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01:00:18

#118: Carmen Thompson, Curator & Creative Producer

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2022/08/30

My guest this week is Carmen Thompson a film programmer, curator and creative producer based in Scotland, who predominantly works with Black film and cinema from the African continent and the diaspora, especially at their intersections with non-fiction storytelling. She currently works as cultural curator and programmer for award-winning exhibitors We Are Parable and as producer for international sales & distribution company Aya Films, where in recent years she has worked on the UK releases of

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01:02:08

117: Adelaide Waldrop, Intimacy Coordinator

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2022/08/23

I spoke to Adelaide Waldrop a certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy for Stage and Screen (ISS), where she trained with Lizzy Talbot and Yarit Dor (she began training in this work in 2017 with various practitioners in the UK and US). She also serves as the Secretary of the Intimacy Coordinators’s Branch of BECTU and teaches Intimacy for Performance at LAMDA. Speaking of which, Adelaide graduated from LAMDA’s MA in Directing programme in 2017. She has directed productions in the UK and America

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44:04

#116: Reetu Kabra, publicist

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2022/08/09

My guest this week is Reetu Kabra, a London-based publicist with over 15 years’ experience working in house for renowned media and entertainment companies including the BBC and BBC Studios, UKTV, Discovery Networks and Penguin Random House. During her time at BBC Worldwide she handled global publicity for the internationally acclaimed Doctor Who and Sherlock as well as other major BBC dramas including War & Peace, Luther and Wolf Hall. In 2017, she managed the Cannes Film Festival publicity

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46:36

#115: Aoife McArdle, Filmmaker

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2022/08/02

My guest this week is Aoife McArdle, a filmmaker from Northern Ireland who you may know from her recent stint as a co-director and producer on Apple TV's Emmy-nominated series Severance. Severance depicts a world in which people can choose to surgically divide their work and personal lives, so neither selves have any idea who they are outside of those realms. It stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken and it recently secured 14 Emmy Award nominations, including the

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26:56

Bonus Minisode: Sara Dosa, Documentary Filmmaker

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2022/07/29

I’ve got a Friday treat for you in the form of this bonus minisode with documentary filmmaker and producer Sara Dosa, whose latest project FIRE OF LOVE is in UK cinemas today. Find showtimes near you! This explosive and intimate and eccentric documentary tells the story of Katia and Maurice Krafft, French volcanologists who were also a married couple. For two decades they roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries and in doing so, left behind a legacy that enhanced our

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31:37

#114: Claire Anne Williams, Hair & Make-Up Designer

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2022/07/26

My guest this week is Make-up and Hair Designer Claire Anne Williams. Claire left a career as a legal secretary to train at the Delamar Academy before being accepted onto a ScreenSkills traineeship where she worked on big-budget productions such as Solo: A Star Wars Story and Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil. After working on shorts, commercials and music promos, Claire received her first head of department credit working on Neil Maskell’s Klokkenluider and recently worked as Make-Up and Hair Crowd

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56:50

#113: Jessica Kiang, Film Critic & Writer

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2022/07/19

I am thrilled to say that my guest this week is Jessica Kiang. Jessica is an International Critic for Variety, covering all the major European and Asian festivals. She also writes for Sight & Sound, BBC Culture, The New York Times and The Playlist, where she also spent five years as Features Editor. She also regularly features on the Film Comment podcast, which if you like film and discussion and why would you be here otherwise, I highly recommend. Jessica mentions some of the pieces of writing of

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47:48

#112: Sheena Patel, Assistant Director & Author

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2022/07/12

This week my guest is Sheena Patel, an assistant director for Film and TV. Her credits as a 1st AD include Casualty and Dominic Savage’s upcoming series I Am Ruth. She has also 3rd Assistant Directed on feature films such as Boxing Day and Pirates, as well as series like I Hate Suzie and Apple Tree House, and she is represented by Sara Putt Associates. Sheena is also an author and a co-founding member of the poetry collective 4 Brown Girls Who Write and part of the reason I invited her on for this

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39:22

#111: Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Sundance Film...

Best Girl Grip ·

2022/07/05

To kick off season six, I’m sharing a live edition that I recorded recently at Sundance London - an offshoot of the Sundance Film Festival that takes place every January in Utah - with the legend that is Tabitha Jackson, the outgoing Director of the Sundance Film Festival. Tabitha was announced as the new Festival Director in January 2020, meaning that her first two festivals had to deal with the ramifications of Covid-19, as well as a reckoning around racial justice. Her appointment came off the

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51:16

#110: Ashley Connor, Cinematographer

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2022/04/04

I lied and said that last week was the last episode for a while and then I got a very exciting email about interviewing this week’s guest and here we are. That is guest is New York based cinematographer Ashley Connor, someone whose work I have been a big fan of for quite some time. She has lensed some of my favourite independent films, including Tramps, First Match and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and is a regular collaborator with Josephine Decker, having shot Butter on the Latch, Thou Wast

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59:22

#109: Katie Sinclair, Development Exec & Independent...

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2022/03/29

I am very excited to introduce this week’s guest, as she is both a friend of the podcast and a someone I consider to be a friend full stop. And that person is Katie Sinclair. Katie is an independent producer and development executive, currently working at Blueprint Pictures, whose credits include Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, In Bruges, The Last Letter From Your Lover, The Riot Club and Emma, where she sources and develops projects for the production company’s slate. She has worked in

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32:55

#108: Renee Zhan, Director & Animator

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2022/03/22

My guest this week is Renee Zhan, a Chinese-American director and animator from Houston, Texas now based in London. She graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with a BA in visual and environmental studies and the National Film and Television School in 2020 with a degree in Directing Animation. Her short films, which include 2016’s Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw), 2018’s Reneepotosis, 2020’s O Black Hole and 2021’s Soft Animals have screened and won awards internationally including Locarno TIFF, and the

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44:16

#107: Chi Thai, Independent Filmmaker & Producer

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2022/03/16

This week my guest is Chi Thai, an independent filmmaker & producer who works across features, documentary, animation & immersive. She has produced over 13 short films, been a Cannes Lion finalist three times, had her work screened at BAFTA & Academy accredited festivals, and exec produced the documentary short Little Miss Sumo, written & directed by Matt Kay, which you can currently watch on Netflix. Chi is also an alumnus of the Guiding Lights scheme and NETWORK@LFF and a ScreenDaily Star of

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43:27

#106: Lizzie Gillett, Director of Feature Docs at...

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2022/03/08

This week’s interview is with Lizzie Gillet, the Director of the Feature Documentary Department at Passion Pictures, whose credits include the Oscar-winning SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Bart Layton’s THE IMPOSTER, James Marsh’ PROJECT NIM and more recently THE RESCUE. Lizzie recently produced THE TERRITORY, a feature documentary co-produced with an Indigenous community in Brazil about their fight to protect their ancestral land in the Amazon rainforest, which the World Cinema Documentary Award at this

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41:02

#105: Aisha Bywaters, Casting Director

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2022/02/22

My guest is Aisha Bywaters, a BIFA-nominated casting director whose credits include independent films such as Body of Water, County Lines, The Last Tree, Dirty God and Mari, as well as the TV series Enterprice and We Are Lady Parts. Most recently, Aisha cast the upcoming TV series adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s memoir Everything I Know About Love, the process for which we talked about a little bit. We also discussed Aisha background in theatre, learning the film industry ropes at Shaheen Baig

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51:58

#104: Ruth Greenberg, Writer & Director

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2022/02/15

My guest this week is Ruth Greenberg, an award-winning screenwriter and director whose directorial debut RUN, a short film starring Niamh Algar from CENSOR, is currently showing on Short of the Week. The film was backed by Film4 and BFI NETWORK and was long listed for a BIFA in 2021. As a screenwriter, Ruth’s prehistoric horror, THE ORIGIN, is in post-production with Escape Plan Productions - the company who made SAINT MAUD and she’s also working on a medieval horror with director Nora Fingscheidt

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48:12

#103: Elhum Shakerifar, Documentary Producer

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2022/02/08

My guest this week is Elhum Shakerifar, a BAFTA nominated producer and winner of the 2017 Women in Film & TV's BBC Factual Award and one of Screen International’s 2018 #Brit50 Producers on the Rise. Elhum’s multi-award-winning credits include The Reluctant Revolutionary (Sean McAllister, 2012), The Runner (Saeed Farouky, 2013), multi-award-winning A Syrian Love Story (Sean McAllister, 2015), Even When I Fall (Sky Neal and Kate McLarnon, 2017), BIFA winner for Best Documentary, Almost Heaven (Carol

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51:31

#102: Henrietta & Jessica Ashworth, screenwriters &...

Best Girl Grip ·

2022/02/01

This week's guests are Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth! Hen and Jess are screenwriters, directors and twin sisters. Having penned their first script at 15, they went onto write OLIVIA AND JIM which came third on the Brit List in 2011. In 2012, at the age of 24 they were featured on ScreenDaily’s prestigious Stars of Tomorrow list and began writing on TV shows such as FRESH MEAT, DIXI and KILLING EVE.. In 2018 their BFI-backed debut feature as screenwriters - TELL IT TO THE BEES, starring Holliday

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58:01

#101: Sandra Hebron, Head of Screen Arts at NFTS

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2022/01/26

My guest this week is Sandra Hebron, the Head of Screen Arts at the National Film and Television School where she leads the course for the MA in Film Studies, Programming and Curation. Previously Sandra was Head of Festivals and the Artistic Director of the BFI London Film Festival and Director of Cinemas at Manchester’s Cornerhouse. She is also a qualified Psychotherapist with a counselling business. We spoke about how she got her start in film exhibition, her time as artistic director of the LFF

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32:12

#100: Rose Garnett, Director of BBC Film

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2022/01/18

My guest this week is Rose Garnett, the Director of BBC Film. Since joining the BBC in 2017, Rose has commissioned and Executive Produced a wide range of titles including… Joanna Hogg’s THE SOUVENIR and THE SOUVENIR: PART II Eliza Hittman’s NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS Sean Durkin’s THE NEST Steve McQueen’s SMALL AXE Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG Debbie Tucker Green’s EAR FOR EYE ...among many others and is passionate about backing new and emerging filmmakers. Rose was also an EP on BBC

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