Stand Still at BFI London Film Festival: "Isabella WIng-Davey's film feels tender and raw"

“The film that has the most complete narrative trajectory is Stand Still, about a woman overwhelmed with postnatal depression. Help comes to the middle-class doctor just at the right time, and what follows in Isabella Wing-Davey’s film feels tender and raw. Zoë Tapper and Michelle Bonnard, who also wrote the film, give extraordinarily compassionate performances here.

These six films are all confidently made, and if this is the future of British film then we are in good hands. Together these directors, and their creatives, should be able to represent a modern, inclusive Britain.”

- - The Reviews Hub

Read the full review of the Shorts Program at BFI London Film Festival here

Isabella Wing-Davey joins CINESISTERS, a collective of award-winning female directors in UK

ABOUT CINESISTERS: We are a collective of award-winning female directors dedicated to the creation of more films by and about women. 

We are BAFTA winners, Screen Stars of Tomorrow, Broadcast Hotshots, Breakthrough Brits and Emmy nominees. We are funded by the BFI, Creative England and The Wellcome Trust. We are participants of iFeatures, Microwave, Cinefoundation and Torino Lab. We are working with BBC Films, Film4, Pathe, Endor, Ruby Films, eOne, Baby Cow, Big Talk, Canal Plus, Channel 5, Film London, ITV, MTV, NBC Universal, Netflix, Picturehouses, Syfy and Sky.

We currently have more than 100 members and meet in London once a month to offer each other hands-on advice and share relevant experience. We support each other’s theatrical releases, share an internal database of resources, host masterclasses, put on special events and run a writers group.

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POPDUST interview with Isabella Wing-Davey (about "WAITING" and "The Rain Collector")

I spoke with Andrew Karpan from POPDUST about my 3 minute short film, "Waiting" which is now available online as well as casting, themes and my other work like "The Rain Collector".

"Her work is both impeccably produced and impeccably cast...[Wing-Davey has] "craft[ed] an immaculate filmic style, somewhere in that netherworld between Sofia Coppola's perfectly groomed costumes... and Wes Anderson's penchant for the pastels."

About WAITING: "Within three minutes, Wing-Davey is able to turn the energy of those moving parts into nothing short of a masterpiece of observation, the kind of space that immediately feels populated by real people."