Director

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WHAT WE SAY

Alice has worked incredibly hard for several years with very little funding to make her truly impressive debut feature. The film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2022 where it came second in the Audience Award, despite its tiny profile. If The Streets Were on Fire raises incredibly important issues, tackling austerity, knife crime and discrimination, while filling the audience with hope and optimism that something as simple as a bike club can help young people at risk turn their lives around. The Lodestars showcase would be a great boost for a very promising director at a critical moment, just before the film comes out in cinemas and on BBC Storyville this autumn.

BIO

Alice has worked in a variety of formats from shorts to feature docs, and on broadcast documentaries for the flagship current affairs strands Panorama and Dispatches, and on programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and Vice News.

Men Buy Sex was her first film which won the SIMA Creative Activism Award and was awarded Vimeo Staff Picks Best of the Month. Agents of Change was selected as a festival focus from the premiere UK documentary festival Sheffield DocFest. Her films have screened at festivals worldwide and premiered on Nowness and Dazed. Her debut feature If the Streets were on Fire had its world premiere at the 66th BFI London Film Festival 2022 and came second in the Audience Award.