Film, TV & Audio
Current Projects
FIERCE BOOTS
Currently filming in the UK.
Writer, Director & Producer of documentary short about the history of Male Impersonation.
Supported by the Camp Maisie Fund.
TO THY REST (Feature Film)
Assistant Director. ​When a Spiritual Medium is called to give a seance at a mysterious hotel in Finland, his sanity is tested as the veil between reality and dream is ripped apart.
A film by Darren McStay for Polymath Productions. Currently on release in cinemas in Finland.
IMBd page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30024645/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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. . Shown at the Rio Cinema in March 2024 and currently being entered for festivals.
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 2025.
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.
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
ADLER
A 10 part TV series about "The Woman" who bested Sherlock Holmes.
Optioned by Free At Last TV.
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ORANGES & ELEPHANTS
An eight part TV series telling the story of star crossed love between two Victorian girl gangs.
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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
No Place Like Home for Channel 5
Talking about Marie Lloyd and Music Hall in the Matcham gem, Hackney Empire.
Trailer
https://twitter.com/i/status/1522631441661804552
Full Episode
https://www.channel5.com/show/jay-blades-no-place-like-home/season-1/jay-blades-no-place-like-home
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
