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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

All Episodes

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#99: Sophie Littman, Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/12/14

It’s been a weird week, with Omicron taking hold and trying to feel festive but also feeling quite apprehensive. So I hope you’re surviving, which has definitely been the overarching theme for 2021. And as always I hope this podcast brings a little bit of light into your week. It’s an appropriate segue to introduce my guest - filmmaker Sophie Littman - whose short film Sudden Light was selected for competition at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival 2020 and was nominated for a BIFA that same year. Her

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35:01

#98: Akua Gyamfi, Founder of The British Blacklist

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/12/07

My guest this week is Akua Gyamfi who has over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, with a career spanning fashion, film, television, theatre, print and online media. Starting out behind the scenes, Akua carved out a reputable career as a hair stylist on London’s Portobello Road. Her hairdressing reputation lead to her first foray into the entertainment world with a hair CV which includes work for magazines Vogue, Disorder, BOLZ, and i-D. Since 2010 she has been a part of the Paul

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54:38

#97: Nia Childs, Creative Producer, Curator & Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/11/30

My guest this week is a wonderful woman and friend: Nia Childs. Nia is a freelance creative producer and curator working in both the fiction and documentary space. She’s produced, curated and programmed projects for Doc Society, BAFTA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the London Short Film Festival and The Roundhouse. More recently, she has begun to write and direct her own films, with her debut short The Other End premiering at the BFI London Film Festival earlier this year. We spoke about a myriad of things,

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32:17

#96: Siobhán Harper-Ryan, Hair & Make-Up Designer

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/11/23

Siobhán Harper-Ryan is a Hair & Make-Up Designer who started out as an apprentice in fashion design & millinery in London’s Camden Lock, before exploring the world of theatre in the 90s where she found a place within London’s Off West-End and the Fringe. In 1999 Siobhán changed course and trained in make-up artistry and has since enjoyed a varied & colourful career, working on a range of TV and film projects. Recently she worked on Sky Atlantic’s series I Hate Suzie, as well as Joanna Hogg’s films

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50:38

#95: Sam Joly, Head of Marketing & Publicity at...

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/11/16

This week’s interview was a real treat to record. Sam Joly, my guest, radiates joy and positivity, but what I got from this chat is the sense that that’s a choice and one that sometimes takes work and so I hope you come away from it with a smile, but also a sense of how you can celebrate your personal achievements and maybe make that choice too. Sam is Head of Marketing and Publicity at the film and television production house See-Saw Films. These are the folks that made The King’s Speech, Lion,

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17:00

Bonus minisode: Liz Garbus, Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/11/12

I’m here today with a bonus minisode with two-time Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus to celebrate the release of her latest documentary Becoming Cousteau. If you listened to last Tuesday’s interview with Anna Godas, CEO of Dogwoof, you’ll have heard me mention the film. Well it’s out in UK cinemas today and all puns intended, I think you’ll have a whale of a time. For over four decades, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his explorations under the ocean became synonymous with a love of science

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37:03

#94: Anna Godas, CEO of Dogwoof

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/11/09

My guest this week is Anna Godas, the CEO of documentary distribution company Dogwoof, who have released films such as The Alpinist, The Act of Killing, Blackfish, Cameraperson, Citizenfour, Free Solo, Honeyland, Minding the Gap, OJ:Made in America, RBG and many many more. Quite simply, if Dogwoof are putting a doc into cinemas, you’re probably in for a treat. Their latest film is Becoming Cousteau, directed by Liz Garbus which is released this Friday and provides an inside look at the life of

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01:18:57

#93: Jemma Desai, Writer, Researcher & Curator

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/11/05

Hello! Welcome to Season Five of Best Girl Grip. This week my guest is Jemma Desai. I first encountered Jemma at an event hosted by The Quarter Club, which was co-founded by former podcast guest Jo Duncombe, where Jemma was reading a letter she had written to her daughter Leena which evolved into a TinyLetter for a while. And then I kept encountering Jemma’s name and work in various iterations and I was always struck by how thoughtful and rigorous and I guess, unconventional it was. And then in

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37:05

#92: Cathy Brady, Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/09/02

This week I am back with the third instalment of my bonus trilogy and my guest is the incredibly talented, incredibly charming Cathy Brady! Cathy is a two-time IFTA-winning director, having won Best Short in 2011 for her first film Small Change and again in 2013 for Morning. In 2011, Cathy directed the BIFA nominated short Rough Skin, starring Vicky McClure, and in 2013, Cathy was named one of Screen Daily’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’. In 2014, Cathy directed on the BAFTA-nominated drama-thriller series

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40:31

#91: Molly Manning-Walker, Cinematographer &...

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/08/24

Today I’m sharing another in-between season bonus episode that I recorded live as part of the BFI’s Woman With a Movie Camera Summit in July. My guest was Molly Manning Walker, a cinematographer, writer and director. Molly trained as a cinematographer and graduated from NFTS in 2019, after which her graduation film November 1st was long-listed for a BAFTA. As a DP, she works across a variety of formats including documentary, fiction and advertising, and she has just finished shooting her first TV

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55:56

#90: Prano Bailey-Bond, Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/08/17

I’m back! Not with a brand new season - just yet - but with a triple-bill of bonus episodes that I recorded a couple of months ago either for live events or to tie-in with a film release. The first in this series is with the immensely talented, and very down-to-earth writer-director Prano Bailey-Bond. Prano grew up in Wales on a diet of Twin Peaks before becoming an editor and then award-winning music video director. Her narrative short films have screened at festivals worldwide and earned her

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52:15

#89: Mandy Chang, Head of BBC Storyville

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/06/22

So this is the final episode of Season Four - which I started back in March and honestly I have no idea where that time has gone. There will be a couple of bonus episodes coming out to coincide with some film releases, but apart from that I’ll be on hiatus for a couple of months figuring out and planning for Season Five. But I feel like I’m going out with a bang!! This season has been a real treat - I’ve spoken to some amazing women and had some really fun but also important conversations and that

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47:59

#88: T A P E collective (Angie Moneke, Isra Al Kassi...

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/06/15

This week I’ve got a very exciting line-up of guests. Yes you heard that plural correctly, I spoke to not one, not two, but three brilliant women working in the film industry and the reason for that is they formed the T A P E collective together. My guests are Angie Moneke, Isra Al Kassi and Nellie Alston, who founded T A P E in 2015 as a response to the lack of representation both on screen. Their mission is to bring exciting screenings to new audiences, championing the forgotten could-be cult

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42:58

#87: Lisa Scoppa, Set Decorator

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/06/08

This week I am delighted to welcome set decorator Lisa Scoppa to the podcast. I came across her name and work after watching Barry Jenkins’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, and a) just wanting to know who worked on that series because it is phenomenal and b) I thought the production design and the sets were just incredibly evocative - at times harrowing, at times transcendent and that is how I found Lisa’s name. And then I was overjoyed to discover she’s also worked on shows like THE DEUCE and ORANGE IS

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53:03

#86: Rachael Tate, Dialogue & ADR Editor

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/06/01

This week my guest is Rachael Tate, a BAFTA award-winning Dialogue & ADR supervisor slash editor whose credits include 1917 (for which she won the BAFTA), upcoming Bond film No Time to Die, The Rhythm Section, All the Money in the World and The Martian. We talk about how Rachael got into this line of work, what exactly ADR is and how she works with actors to try and recreate their performance in the studio, why she perceives her job to be more of a craft than a technical role and how she achieves

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38:06

#85: Kat Buckle, Talent Agent

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/05/25

This week my guest is Kat Buckle, an agent at Curtis Brown in their Film & TV department where she represents a range of talent such as director Stella Corradi, writer and actor Emma Sidi, presenter, podcast & writer Tolani Shoneye, comedian & writer Jack Rooke and many, many more. We talk about her route into the world of talent agenting, how she built her own roster and what she looks for in potential clients, how she manages client expectations and sets boundaries, how she deals with both the

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01:00:43

#84: Tara Judah, Critic & curator

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/05/18

So cinemas are open which is hugely exciting! What are people going to see? And where? Lots of things that have had releases are back on big screens like Nomadland and Sound of Metal and Ammonite, which is cool because I think they’re all films that will benefit from that sense of surroundedness that you can only get from the cinema. And so it feels fitting that my guest this week has worked in cinemas and is an advocate for the kind of tangible film-going experience and that person is Tara

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34:59

#83: Mariayah Kaderbhai, Head of Programmes at BAFTA

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/05/11

This week my guest is Mariayah Kaderbhai who is Head of Programmes at BAFTA, where she represents them as the lead film industry voice and moderates most of their panels and Q&As. She’s interviewed filmmaking talent such as Spike Lee, Jacques Audiard and Stephen Frears, as well as this year’s Best Director winner Chloé Zhao. We talk about how Mariayah took a roundabout way to studying cinema at university before getting an internship at the BFI, working at Al Jazeera as a journalist and then

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48:19

#82: Mika Watkins, Screenwriter

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/05/04

This week my guest is Mika Watkins, a screenwriter for television and film, whose career is already on a really exciting trajectory. She’s been part of the writers rooms for Black Mirror and the Amazon series Hanna and has written episodes for Sky’s Lucky Man and BBC1 period drama Troy: Fall of a City. She also created, showran and executive produced the 10-part sci-fi Origin for Leftbank and YouTube Premium. Mika is currently writing a range of her own projects including Love Story, a Tokyo-set

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47:24

#81: Melanie Hoyes, Industry Inclusion Executive at...

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/04/20

My guest this week is Melanie Hoyes who is an Industry Inclusion Executive at the BFI, where she deputises for the Head of Inclusion to advocate for equity and access in the film industry. She joined the BFI in 2016 as a researcher, working on a project to acquire diversity data about gender and ethnicity for the BFI Filmography, telling stories about UK film history using data from the archive. Melanie continues to use data and research in order to monitor and inform improved policy and practice at

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