Sarah Clift - writer and film-maker. Episode 2

<p>In this episode we talk to Sarah Clift a creative and visionary film director and writer.</p> <p> </p> <p>With a first career writing award-winning advertisement campaigns in London agencies, Sarah made the bold transition to writing and directing her own films and has made two award winning short films.</p> <p> </p> <p>Sarah’s second short film, THE BIRTH OF VALERIE VENUS, co-funded by the BFI NETWORK, has won numerous awards and qualified for Oscar Consideration and was BAFTA Longlisted for Best British Short Film in 2021.</p> <p> </p> <p>Sarah is currently in development on her feature film SPINSTERHOOD set in 1800 Yorkshire (we can’t wait!!).</p> <p> </p> <p>Sarah celebrates women of all ages in her films and in this conversation we chat about:</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>What drives her to create the characters and storylines, Sarah told us</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>“I wasn’t really seeing things on screen about sensuality of sexuality that felt believable to me” Sarah Clift</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>The changes that are needed for us to see more representation of more diverse storylines and characters.</li> <li>There is a conflict, on the one hand, the reality of age is that women understand themselves much better, and yet there is a lack of role models in popular culture, which drives this sense of invisibility that pervades</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> We loved this conversation and all of Sarah’s work, go and follow her on Instagram to find out more about her <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/scliftuk/">https://www.instagram.com/scliftuk/</a></p>