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 northern screenwriter and producer who has over 25 years’ experience in the Television, Film and Theatre. She studied Media Production TV, Radio and Film at the University of Sunderland, where she attained a first class degree. During her time here she won ‘Best Drama’ at the Sparkies awards for producing the film ‘Chimera’. She previously produced and completed other short films including Only Human, Captive, Enough and Growing Old. She has production credits in script supervision for the likes of Paramount, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Marvel, DC FILMS, World Productions, Mammoth Screen, Amazon Prime & Netflix to name a few. She has done further writing for Made Up Productions and Ascendant Fox and went on to be nominated as an RTS Rising Star Producer. Carley is Bafta Connect producer and a BFI Creative Producer Lab alumni.