We Love Moses screened at festivals across the globe Photo: Teng Teng Films British first-time feature director Dionne Edwards is among the 15 people selected for Sundance's Screenwriters Lab this January.
Dionne Edwards - whose award-winning short film We Love Moses screened at more than 50 festivals - will bring her project Pretty Red Dress to the mentorship scheme in Utah. Her film is set in present-day London, where Travis, a black man newly released from prison, returns to a turbulent home life with his longtime girlfriend Candice and their androgynous daughter Kenisha. The family’s precarious balance is sent spinning when they discover him cross-dressing, calling all of their relationships into question.
Edwards, who founded Teng Teng Films in 2011 with Georgia Goggin, has previously taken part in the BFI Flare mentorship programme, where she was mentored by Desiree Akhavan (The Miseducation Of Cameron Post). She also directed 30-minute Channel 4 drama That Girl and,...
Dionne Edwards - whose award-winning short film We Love Moses screened at more than 50 festivals - will bring her project Pretty Red Dress to the mentorship scheme in Utah. Her film is set in present-day London, where Travis, a black man newly released from prison, returns to a turbulent home life with his longtime girlfriend Candice and their androgynous daughter Kenisha. The family’s precarious balance is sent spinning when they discover him cross-dressing, calling all of their relationships into question.
Edwards, who founded Teng Teng Films in 2011 with Georgia Goggin, has previously taken part in the BFI Flare mentorship programme, where she was mentored by Desiree Akhavan (The Miseducation Of Cameron Post). She also directed 30-minute Channel 4 drama That Girl and,...
- 12/15/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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