Amani Zardoe doesn’t just have one film showing at this years Underwire Film Festival, she has multiple! Her anthology series Portraits explores how we present ourselves to the world and her XX award nominated short Lazy Money is a stoner comedy about friendship. In this interview she shares her journey into film making.

Haolu Wang’s psychological fantasy film follows a woman during the aftermath of a traumatic stillbirth. Here the director shares her influences and challenges of creating a fantasy film on a low budget ahead of her screening at the Underwire Film Festival this week.

Did the title grab your attention? It did with us too. Candice Onyeama’s short film explores the experience of being Nigerian British. Here she talks to us about her personal influence behind the film and the beauty of community funded films.

Susie found her own way to filmmaking when she discovered an unused camera at the while studying literature and made a "Rough Guide to..." her University. This led to her creating an immersive film experience, long before people started using the term 'immersive'

Zero budget film making Lucy Rose made her short film Peak on zero budget, the PTSD based drama is showing at this years Underwire Film Festival which is something ticked off the bucket list for Lucy. In this interview she discusses the challenges of the film and the difficulties of moving into film making in a working class environment.

Jenny Wright’s animated short My Mother’s Eyes was written after the loss of her mother, in this interview she talks to us about making her film relate universally and being brutal in the editing room with her work.

When a mother reads her teenage son’s texts it triggers an awkward conversation which is way too much information. A humorous and touching comedy about miscommunication is what Ita Fitzgerald brings to Underwire this year. Here she talks to us about her inspiration behind the story, self funding projects and the challenges of casting child actors.

For a long time women have been trying to fight the stigma of periods, in her short film My Time, Giulia Gandini does just this. In this interview she tells how she became a film maker, other female directors she looks up and how she feels about the short playing at the Underwire Film Festival this coming weekend.

Things always seem worse at night, which is what is highlighted in Hannah Leigh-Prior’s film Fayde, highlighting the balancing act of family and work for a superhero. In this interview Hannah speaks to us about her un-usual form of film financing and how to survive a long night shoot.

Kickstarting our feature on the Underwire Film Festival’s 10 year event is Gemma Norton. Her impressive drama sat on her computer for two years, luckily for us it’s showing this coming weekend at the Underwire 2019 film festival. Here, Gemma tells us about the challenging journey of making the film, the importance of sharing post natal depression storylines and who she looks up to in the industry.