Born and raised in Nottingham, she began making films from an early
age. Self-taught as a Screenwriter and trained as a film and video
technician at Nottingham's late, lamented Intermedia Film and Video,
'birthplace' of other film makers such as Shane Meadows, Steven Sheil,
and Chris Cooke. Started screenwriting to generate material to direct,
but revealing this prodigious talent has often worked against her in a
UK industry suspicious of the "double-threat" (Writer-Director).
Her many short films have been shown around the world, at numerous film
festivals. She can count Quentin Tarantino as a fan of her early work.
As a writer-for-hire she has developed numerous feature scripts for
other directors.
In 2007 she won Best Script at the Long Beach Action On Film
International Film Festival with the unproduced female-led action
thriller "Bulletproof". She was a finalist for Best Script at the
Pennsylvania's Spirit Quest film festival, 2010 and says she would
enter more competitions if "clicking boxes on the Internet wasn't so
bloody tiresome".
She counts Christopher Nolan, Kathryn Bigelow, Norman Jewison and Peter
Weir as major influences.