Louise Osmond

Louise Osmond is a British documentary filmmaker, producer, writer, and cinematographer. Since she is a British fillmaker, not very much is known regarding her personal life. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in modern history. Some of her film titles include: "Deep Water" (2003), "Blitz: London`s Firestorm" (2005), "The Beckoning Silence" (2007), "McQueen and I" (2011), "Richard III: The King in the Car Park" (2013), and "Dark Horse" (2015).[1] Before she became a documentary filmmaker, she worked as a journalist and editor in Europe, specifically Brussels, Paris, Rome and Africa. During this time, she was working in the news journalism graduate trainee for the UK network ITN. She has won the "International Emmy Award for Documentary" and had been nominated for the "News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form" and the "British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual" for her work.[2]

Her most well known films include Dark Horse (2015) and Deep Water (2006). She co-directed Deep Water along with documentary filmmaker, Jerry Rothwell. This film tells the story of a round the world yacht race in 1968 that apparently was disastrous.[3] This race is known as the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. In the film`s opening weekend, it made only $22,632, and grossed $270,452 altogether. It stars Tilda Swinton as the narrator. She both wrote and directed her film Dark Horse which came out in 2015. This film follows the true story of a group of working class men who get together and decide to breed a race horse. Along with being a documentary, this film is also considered a drama.[4] In 2013, she co-directed "Richard III: The King in the Car Park", a TV movie documentary, alongside Pete Woods. Apart from these few exceptions, she directs most of her films singlehandedly.

References

  1. ↑ Toronto International Film Festival. "TIFF.net - Dark Horse". TIFF.
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/496073/Louise-Osmond/filmography
  3. ↑ "Independent Lens . DEEP WATER . The Filmmakers - PBS". pbs.org.
  4. ↑ Laura Berger (21 January 2015). "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Louise Osmond - 'Dark Hors - Women and Hollywood". Women and Hollywood.
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