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Lou Hamilton |
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christina@imaginetalent.co.uk |
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+44 (0)7876 685515 |
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Lou Hamilton is an award-wining documentary filmmaker, podcast host of Brave New Girl, author of Brave New Girl - How to be Fearless, and an artist with a professional public art practice.
Lou believes in the power of creativity for positive social change and that we all rise by lifting others. The nature of her film work has included Terminal Illness (she co-wrote, directed and produced a BAFTA-winning documentary series "DEATH" for Channel 4, which was nominated for the Royal Television Society Awards and the Broadcast Awards), PTSD in soldiers, literacy in India, and Women in War.
Her weekly podcast invites women to share how they have found courage through all of the messiness of life and work. Subject matters include black identity in art, transgender sizing in the fashion industry, rape, adoption, mental health, vaginal health, sexual violence as a weapon of war, ageing well, menopause etc.
Lou's dream is to turn the podcast into a documentary series about real life Brave New Girls. In the meantime she directs charity films and commercials.
For more on Lou: www.createlabfilms.co.uk
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| BRAVE NEW GIRL (creator/host) | Weekly podcast inviting women to share how they have found courage through all the messiness of life and work. |
| CALL OF THE MAESTRO (director/writer) | Feature Documentary – Indian Classical Music as a dying art in a country in flux between the ancient and modern. |
| BEING MARTIN (director) | Short documentary about Martin Symons’ final challenge in an off-road electric wheelchair while being kept alive on a ventilator at night. |
| PRATHAM (director/writer) | Short documentary-drama set in the municipal dumps and slums of India; this is the story of a UNICEF charity striving to educate the nation’s poorest children. Helped raise £2.3million. |
| A BRUTAL PEACE (director/writer) | Feature documentary – shot over a year about the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on returning servicemen and women and their families. |
| THE UK MUSIC HALL OF FAME (director/writer) | Decade films: 1990s, 1970s, 1950s and biographies on Bruce Springsteen and George Michael. Channel 4. |
| THE A LIST: NICOLE KIDMAN (director/writer) | One hour documentary for APTN and LBBC. |
| DEATH (director/writer) | Five part series following 12 people over 3 years dying of terminal illness. |
| ANGIE (writer/director) | Short drama – A young woman learns her soldier girlfriend is killed on tour. |
| DESIRE OF THE PITBULL WARRIOR (director/writer) | Short drama starring Carla Mendonca and Shaun Rivers. Composer Didier Recloux. |
| CAN YOU SEE ME? (director) | Short film. |
| HOODED SMILE (director/writer) | Short B&W 8mm artist film – a young hoodie tramps the streets making people smile. |
| THE EMPEROR (director/writer) | Short drama about an ex-soldier with Post-Traumatic Stress. |
| GREEN INDIANS (director/writer) | Short film on the life and suicide of 80s drummer Kevin Wilkinson. |
| MILLENNIUM DANCE (director/writer) | Artist Film using images of Swindon for Swindon National Dance Agency. |
| SPACEWALK (director/writer) | Short artist film about a woman astronaut who never made it to the moon. |
| SHOAL 101 (director/writer) | Short artist film about female MP Julia Drown and the possibilities now 101 female MPs were in power. |
| SHAFTED (director/writer) | Short artist film – raised questions about CCTV and its implications for women in public spaces. Screened at Kinofilm International Film Festival. |
| SHORT CIRCUIT (director/writer) | Artist film – explored dilemmas of women who are making choices about work and children. |
| SILENT VOICES (director/writer) | Large scale multi-media event using projected video, photographs, sound and performance. 400 women and women’s groups speaking out. Their responses were projected as video onto 40ft screens. Funded by London Arts Board. |