Emma Sullivan

Emma Sullivan is a writer and director. She directs drama for TV – including The 4 O’Clock Club, Holby and Doctors. She also directs and shoots online content and promos. She is developing a feature script set in NYC and has written other features and shorts.

Her short film After Tomorrow, was nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and won many awards worldwide including Best Short Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2009. That year she was also named one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow. She was mentored by director John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition) on the prestigious Guiding Lights scheme. Emma was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize, run in association with the BFI Film Fund.

Emma is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, where she was awarded a scholarship from the David Lean Foundation for her MA in Fiction Direction. She also has a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design and an MA in Communication, Art & Design from the Royal College of Art.

External link: emmasullivan.co.uk