Biography
Ann Hawker is a writer and director who works across drama and documentary.
Her drama short "Cliff Edge", written and directed by herself, starring Dearblha Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Anamaria Marinca (Fury, Temple), premiered at the BIFA qualifying Women Over Fifty Film Festival. Supported by the Kino Film Fund the film will continue to be shown in UK and International Festivals in 2025.
Her previous short, "Fly Free", starring Anna Calder-Marshall, (Harlots, This England) and Holly Aird (Unforgotten, A Discovery of Witches.), was nominated for the DUK Best Director and Best Film in the Film the House Awards 2024. It as has shown at international and BIFA qualifying festivals, including Brighton Rocks, the Spirit of Independence and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.
Ann is an award winning writer, Her feature script An Austrian Holiday was selected for the Writer's Lab, sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman and was an Academy Nicholls Top 50 Script.. She was a winner in the Screenwriting Goldmine competition and has twice been a finalist in the Red Planet writing prize and nominated in the Edinburgh New Voices Award..
She has directed many high profile documentary films for television. Her work covers drama documentaries, history and observational films. Her films include an episode in the CNN flagship series The Windsors. Other highlights include "Smugglers" a verbatim drama telling the stories of four smugglers for Channel 4 and "Too Scared for School" a drama documentary about bullying for ITV, winner in the Mental Health TV Awards. Recently she has directed on films in an international series on the conflict inYemen, "An Arabian Tragedy."
Other writing work includes short plays staged at Theatre 503 and the Tabard Theatre a drama monologue in the podcast series Lost Souls and her play Judgement Days which was performed on BBC Radio 4.
Her drama short "Cliff Edge", written and directed by herself, starring Dearblha Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Anamaria Marinca (Fury, Temple), premiered at the BIFA qualifying Women Over Fifty Film Festival. Supported by the Kino Film Fund the film will continue to be shown in UK and International Festivals in 2025.
Her previous short, "Fly Free", starring Anna Calder-Marshall, (Harlots, This England) and Holly Aird (Unforgotten, A Discovery of Witches.), was nominated for the DUK Best Director and Best Film in the Film the House Awards 2024. It as has shown at international and BIFA qualifying festivals, including Brighton Rocks, the Spirit of Independence and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.
Ann is an award winning writer, Her feature script An Austrian Holiday was selected for the Writer's Lab, sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman and was an Academy Nicholls Top 50 Script.. She was a winner in the Screenwriting Goldmine competition and has twice been a finalist in the Red Planet writing prize and nominated in the Edinburgh New Voices Award..
She has directed many high profile documentary films for television. Her work covers drama documentaries, history and observational films. Her films include an episode in the CNN flagship series The Windsors. Other highlights include "Smugglers" a verbatim drama telling the stories of four smugglers for Channel 4 and "Too Scared for School" a drama documentary about bullying for ITV, winner in the Mental Health TV Awards. Recently she has directed on films in an international series on the conflict inYemen, "An Arabian Tragedy."
Other writing work includes short plays staged at Theatre 503 and the Tabard Theatre a drama monologue in the podcast series Lost Souls and her play Judgement Days which was performed on BBC Radio 4.