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Norman Hull

Norman Hull

Directing

Biography

Norman Hull is an award winning, highly regarded film director with a critically praised catalogue of pioneering films. He’s a graduate of the National Film and Television School and has directed films for television and cinema. Norman launched his own production company, AVP Films, with the short drama OUT OF TOWN, nominated for Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival. He then co-wrote and directed the feature film LADDER OF SWORDS, which was released to critical acclaim and played at film festivals around the world. Since then Norman has created an impressive body of work in television, making films for Channel 4, Five, ITV, and the BBC. He has two nominations for the Grierson Awards, three BAFTA nominations and his feature documentary AIRPLANESKI! won the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco Film Festival.

Known For

The Thieving Headmistress
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A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

The Thieving Headmistress

2006Movie