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Film, TV & Audio

Current Projects

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MAYBE MOONBEAM (Silent Film)

Director. Co-writer & co-producer. Commissioned with Amii Griffith,  to write and deliver a silent B & W short film inspired by the silent movie star Mabel Poulton, the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things. Shot entirely on location in Hackney, London. DP Canny Richardson used film and digital processes to capture a story reflecting the 1920s and modern human condition. . Currently in post. To be shown at The Rio Cinema in March 2024.

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STRANGE THE ROAD (Feature Film)

Writer & Producer. This film shot entirely in Hackney Wick and influenced by German Expressionistic cinema. Directed by James Warren and Mark Nutkins as DP.. Based on the hit stage play produced in London at The Hope Theatre. Currently in the last stages of post production. Premiere in London Summer 2024.

HACKNEY DISSENT (Documentary)

Writer & Director. Nominated for Best Short Documentary at Unrestricted View Film Festival London and Official Selection for the British Urban Film Festival 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFoRxMDTM60&t=2s

Filmed at Dr Johnson's House, off Fleet Street, following  SLAM poetry workshops by  TS Eliot Award prize winning  poet, Joelle Taylor. Featuring new work in response to dissenters from Mary Wollstonecraft to Gil Scott-Heron. 

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HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Audio)

​Writer & Director. Sound Design by Yvonne Gilbert. Created by 09 Lives remotely in lockdown with the OFFIE nominated cast of the Outside Theatre version. In support of the Abney Park Trust. Available here https://www.mixcloud.com/09Lives/hound-of-the-baskervilles-audio/

Writer & Director. Sound Design by Yvonne Gilbert. using the letters of the Bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu to tell her story in her own words. Created with Unity Arts in lockdown. Voice Artists Zara Kardashian Banks, Sarah J Warren and Priscilla Olympio.

Film, TV & Audio 

In Development

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ADLER
A 10 part TV series about "The Woman" who bested Sherlock Holmes.
Optioned by Free At Last TV.

ORANGES & ELEPHANTS

An eight part TV series telling the story of star crossed love between two Victorian girl gangs.

Film, TV & Audio - Appearances

Nerd Stuff 

LIL WARREN is also a historian and an advocate for WC access to arts and culture and appears on Film, TV, Radio and panel discussions. Here are just a selection of her appearances.

Listed Londoner with Robert Elms

LIL WARREN was thrilled to be invited by Robert Elms onto the Listed Londoner podium.

Full programme here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06gqm61

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No Place Like Home with Jay Blades

Women's Hour with Jenni Murray

Invited onto Radio 4 to discuss how women could survive gang life in Victorian times and to talk about ORANGES & ELEPHANTS.

Full programme here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09nrsjg

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