Polly is an award winning UK based, independent, film-maker renowned for her ability to tell the most compelling and sensitive stories. She has made films for all of the UK’s major broadcasters, & produced/developed fiction as MD for Rocket Pictures with Elton John and David Furnish and for her own company In Trust Films.
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Read MorePolly is an award winning UK based, independent, film-maker renowned for her ability to tell the most compelling and sensitive stories. She has made films for all of the UK’s major broadcasters, & produced/developed fiction as MD for Rocket Pictures with Elton John and David Furnish and for her own company In Trust Films.
She is in post production on Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams, starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne, and has just completed a feature length documentary for Universal Pictures entitled The Mountain in Me, featuring Ed Jackson, ex rugby player, author of “Lucky” & director of the M2M Foundation,premiering at the Edinburgh Festival in 2024.
Polly wrote and directed Let Me Go starring Juliet Stevenson and Lucy Boynton, with Radiohead’s Philip Selway composing.
Documentary directing work has included BAFTA award winning Video Diaries (BBC), Tantrums & Tiaras the inside story of Elton John’s life, shortlisted for a BAFTA (itv),
Kofi Annan – The Eye of the Storm (BBC2),
Extraordinary People – the Worlds Youngest Surgeon, shortlisted for the Grierson Award(C5), In the Arctic with Ewan McGregor, (Best Indie Documentary), Eastside Story, a revealing portrait of Ray Lewis’s controversial Eastside Youth Leaders Academy and BBC2’s Rich Russians in London.
She has also worked extensively for the Elton John Aids Foundation making films with Elton to support their work all over the world.
As a visual artist, Polly had two series of video portraits commissioned. Her subjects included Tony Benn, Jason Isaacs and star of The Wire, Michael K Williams. She has subsequently also shot a 2nd series entitled WHO AM I, the portraits of eight women.
Polly is also a trained life coach and mother of three.
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