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Chanya Button

Chanya Button

Directing

Biography

Chanya Joyce Dorothy Button (born 25 December 1986) is an English director and screenwriter. After studying at RADA and learning the ropes in the assistant directors' department on the Harry Potter franchise, she directed two feature films, Burn Burn Burn (2015) and Vita & Virginia (2018), the latter of which she also co-wrote. She then moved on to television, directing the 2019 period dramas World on Fire and The Spanish Princess, as well as the final 60th anniversary special episode of Doctor Who, "The Giggle" (2023).

Known For

The Spanish Princess
7.5

The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

The Spanish Princess

2019
World on Fire
7.5

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

World on Fire

2019
Whitstable Pearl
6.7

With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all manner of cases. But when an old friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.

Whitstable Pearl

2021
Code of Silence
6.5

A deaf catering worker who is struggling to make ends meet is called upon by a police detective superintendent to lip-read the conversations of criminals.

Code of Silence

2025
The Killing Kind
6.3

Barrister Ingrid Lewis defends John Webster against stalking charges, only for Webster to turn on her.

The Killing Kind

2023
Vita & Virginia
6.8

Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.

Vita & Virginia

2019
Burn Burn Burn
6.6

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

Burn Burn Burn

2016
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
8.8

The Doctor finds himself with an old face and something is very wrong. How can Donna remember him and why has he got one of his old faces back? A compilation release featuring "The Star Beast," "Wild Blue Yonder," and "The Giggle."

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

2023
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The concluding chapter of the three-part film series which started with My Fault: London and has been following the forbidden romance between Noah and her stepbrother Nick. In Our Fault: London, Noah and Nick face events that will force them to make a final decision: are they meant to be together or should they part ways?

Our Fault: London

Fire
7.2

Charles Dickens burns a lifetime of letters in one night and struggles with a desire that longs to make itself real.

Fire

2012
Alpha: Omega
7.0

A ravaged London is in the midst of a century-long civil war in which the battle-line isn't race or religion: it's gender. And the resource at stake isn't land or wealth: it's reproduction. The film follows the journey of the youngest member of an underground female resistance group, and her relationship with her biological mother.

Alpha: Omega

2014
Frog/Robot
8.0

An off-kilter comedy about a girl who thinks more than she says, and a boy that says more than he thinks.

Frog/Robot

2011