Camilla graduated from the London Film School in 2009 with a Masters degree in film making. She had previously lived and worked in China as a freelance writer and editor for 'Time Out Beijing'. During her studies in London she frequently returned to China to film, first collaborating with art group The Red Room on a short film about internal migration. This was later acquired by Current TV as a 3 minute short 'China's secret workers'. In 2008 she co-directed a half hour documentary with Judy Bretschneider about a Beijing sex worker in the run up to the Olympics. Pretty Girls premiered at the Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan 2009 and is part of the British films catalogue 2010. In 2009 she shot her graduation film Lost in the muqam about a Uyghur musician from China's Xinjiang province, this was acquired by Al Jazeera TV and was broadcast in July 2010. Since graduating Camilla has worked with acclaimed director Chen Shi Zheng as his videographer for A Chinese Home which premiered at Carnegie Hall, and Palestinian NGO Riwaq to film the 3rd Riwaq Biennale in the West Bank. Camilla has most recently finished filming an Actionaid International documentary 'Babacu Livre' about the women babacu breakers in Brazil. camfrench82@googlemail.com |
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