Amanda Boyle

Amanda’s first short led Screen International to hail her as one of “the UK's most exciting new directors” and ID Magazine as one of 250 people around the world that would “influence contemporary culture” with Dazed & Confused Magazine later calling her a “prodigiously talented British Film-maker”.

Since then, Amanda has won an array of international awards for her films. Her credits have included the multi-award nominated Hotel Infinity, Imprints for Channel 4’s prestigious Coming Up series and the BBC funded Pop Art, which was based on the short story by American writer Joe Hill. In 2008 Amanda was the recipient of the Clore Leadership Programme’s Film Fellowship, which has led to an exciting new collaboration with the National Theatre with the novelist Steven Hall.

In 2009 Amanda directed the ground breaking, Rose D’Or and RTS nominated Channel 4 drama series Cast Offs which was praised in a House of Lords debate as “brilliant, funny, touching and completely unsentimental”. The following year she launched the new season of the BAFTA winning Skins, later directing the finale of Channel 4’s comedy drama Sirens. Amanda is in post on the new film Care written by Chloe Moss, staring Gina McKee and produced by Warp for Sky Arts.

As well as writing a new podcast play for Fuel/Roundhouse and collaborating with Sound & Fury on a filmed version of their critically acclaimed play Kursk for the Art Council/BBC’s The Space, Amanda is currently developing her first feature film.