ISABELLA WING-DAVEY

"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." - POPDUST (Andrew Karpan)

Isabella is an award-winning British filmmaker working across Film and TV. She is a BAFTA member and alumni of BIFA Springboard, New York Film Festival Artist Academy, Film Independent Development Labs and Torino Film Lab and finalist for SFFILM Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship.

Stand Still (2019) her award-winning Film London/BFI-funded short film about post-natal depression, premiered at BFI London Film Festival 2019 and has played at festivals around the world starring actor/writing team Zoë Tapper and Michelle Bonnard,. It was produced by Island Pictures and co-produced by Oscar-winning Slick Films.

The Rain Collector (2016, UK/USA), is her award winning short film about women in science in Victorian England starring Emmy-nominee Celine Buckens and Hermione Norris (Spooks, Cold Feet). Produced by BAFTA-winning Wigwam Films (Emily Leo) and Park Pictures’ Theodora Dunlap, with grants from Sloan Foundation and HFPA, it was called “a stupendous marvel of anxiety and restraint” and played at BAFTA and OSCAR-qualifying festivals around the world including LSFF Best Female Director nom, Leeds International Film Festival, Fusion Film Festival (Audience Choice Award), FLICKERS Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival and Woodstock Film Festival. It premiered online with Museum of Moving Image NYC Sloan Science and Film.

Isabella received her MFA at NYU Tisch Grad film department, under Todd Solondz, Alexandre Rockwell and Spike Lee etc and was one of 10 writer/directors on the collaborative feature film produced by James Franco Black Dog Red Dog, starring Chloë Sevigny, Logan Marshall Green, Whoopi Goldberg and Tim Blake Nelson. After getting her MFA she worked for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions in New York, initially as a development associate, and later as Mr Hoffman’s assistant and Production Executive which adds to her knowledge and expertise of all areas of production, enriching her directing abilities.

Her feature about grief and family secrets, THE WEEK DAD CAME HOME (developed through Torino Film Lab with support from the British Council) is in development with producers Isabel Freer, Beef Productions (Edward Fletcher and Emma Biggins) and veteran French producer, Virginie Lacombe.

Isabella is part of the UK filmmakers collective Cinesisters and is represented by Olivia Gray at Independent Talent in UK.

Wing-Davey is also an accomplished Producer, having developed and produced some very successful short films through Powder Room Films as well as being a freelance producer for music videos, commercials and digital content. Some of the clients, production companies, bands and brands are: OIKOS, Peuterey, Parlour Tricks, Anchor Light, Big Spaceship, GB65, Good Look, Hello Please, MTV World, Bransch, Anamanaguchi. Black Yaya/Herman Dune. Some of the short film production credits include:

Afronauts (by Frances Bodomo), Short Film (2014), Sundance 2014, Berlinale 2014, DIFF, NIFF, AFF and was part of Sundance Shorts and BFI Sci-Fi strands. It has been programmed in over 20 countries. Afronauts Film

So You've Grown Attached (by Kate Tsang), Short FIlm (2014), Best Narrative Short (San Francisco International Film Festival 2014), AFF, Woodstock Best Student Short, Student Academy Award Regional Finalist. It was distributed by PBS. Watch it here: SYGA WEBSITE

Pen Pal (by Brooke Goldfinch), Short Film (2012), Edinburgh International FIlm Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival PEN PAL WEBSITE

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