Gayle Griffiths
In November 2005, Gayle received the London Film Festival’s Alfred Dunhill UK Talent Award which recognises the achievements of new and emerging UK filmmaking talent. Her latest film, Song of Songs, a low budget feature shot on mini-DV, premiered at the 2005 London Film Festival. Co-written by Jay Basu and Josh Appignanesi and directed by Appignanesi, it is a dark parable about belief and desire starring Natalie Press (My Summer of Love) and Joel Chalfen. Song of Songs is also currently nominated for Best Achievement in Production at the 2005 British Independent Film Awards.
Gayle graduated in 1998, with the short film Second Hand, a co-production between the NFTS and the Polish National Film School in Łodz. The film won numerous awards, including the Cinéfondation Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, setting Gayle and the film’s director, Emily Young, squarely on the road to success. Gayle and Emily continued their collaboration with their BAFTA Award-winning first feature, Kiss of Life, which premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the UK in 2004.
Gayle’s next project is The Outsiders, with writer-director Beryl Richards and she has two further films in development: The Absence of Ernest, written by NFTS graduate Jo Hodges, and an untitled English language adaptation of a Polish novel.
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