FAYE JACKSON - WRITER/DIRECTOR

Scottish writer/director Faye Jackson’s debut feature STRIGOI - about the “real” Romanian vampires - won over 15 festival awards and is distributed internationally on VOD and DVD. Her award-winning shorts LUMP, THE OLD WOMAN WHO HID HER FEAR UNDER THE STAIRS, CHANGELING, SNOWFLAKES and TEN OF SWORDS have played scores of international festivals including: New York Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and Sitges. Fantasia called Faye “one of British cinema’s sharpest rising talents”. Faye’s sci-fi feature project SNOWFLAKES (producer Barrington Paul Robinson, Co-producer Fantastic Films) won best UK pitch at Jets Initiative 2021 and was invited to participate in Fantasia’s Frontieres Co-Production Market 2021 and Sitges Pitchbox 2021. Faye’s fairy tale horror feature LITTLE BIRD (producer Carley Armstrong) was selected for the 2024 inaugural Next Wave Genre Lab, supported by the BFI.

CARLEY ARMSTRONG - PRODUCER

Carley Armstrong is a British producer and filmmaker, and founder of True Moon Pictures, based in the North East of England. With over 25 years of experience across high-end television, independent film, and theatre, she has worked on acclaimed productions such as Adolescence, Boiling Point, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 & 2, 28 years later, Malpractice, Ferrari and Slow Horses.

A fierce advocate for underrepresented voices and working-class storytelling, Carley’s producing work focuses on socially driven narratives in both realism and genre, with heart, grit, hope and urgency. Her recent short films—including Non Compos Mentis, Hide, and A Woman of Good Abilities, to name a few —have explored themes of female resilience, trauma and enlightenment, and are currently garnering recognition on the festival circuit.

Carley is a PGGB, BAFTA Connect Producer and BFI Creative Producer Lab alumni, represented by WGM Atlantic. While she continues to build a slate of original work, she remains committed to developing opportunities for Northern talent and reshaping the narrative landscape from the ground up, collaborating in international film development programmes and shining a light on the unseen of the North.

Carley has two exciting films on her slate: Little Bird was developed with Film Constellation and Tatino films on the UK Next Wave Genre Lab (as featured in Variety), and Carley’s second project is a Australian and UK co-production with distribution in place, shooting in November 2025.