Multi-award-winning Filmmaker Fran Lea became a UK Screen Star of Tomorrow after co-writing & directing critically acclaimed Feature Film Strawberry Fields with BBC Films, BFI, Spring Pictures, and Film London. Fran Lea taught women directors in Sweden (as well as through Film London, London Film School and University of Hertfordshire) at a time when Anna Serner demanded Europe change its commissioning policies to include 50% women filmmakers. Fran has lead panel & solo talks at Underwire Film Festival, BFI, & Birds Eye View Film Festival, created an Independent Cinema at Treadwell’s Art Mill, Bradford, directed theatre in Paris and worked as an Arts council &WIPN funded Writer-in-Residence at HMP Bedford.

*UK Screen Star of Tomorrow 2011
*11 International Awards
*Director of Network TV Drama, Feature Films, Comedy,
Animation & Documentary

“She has pursued her passion to communicate the complexities of human beings through thick and thin. She has an extraordinary, uncompromising voice. If there is such a thing as a film making community, then it should be striving to push talents like Frances to the fore. Passionate about her work she may be, but she also has the easiest laugh of anyone I know and is great, inclusive company. I cannot recommend her highly enough.” Simon Beaufoy