Aurora Fearnley
Directing
Biography
Raised in Stockport, Manchester, Aurora's mother was an ecologist before completing her PhD in animal behaviour and genetics. Her father is a teacher for children with special needs and violent offenders. Aurora was writing plays and winning acting awards as a teenager and that tenacious focus has since cemented her as a highly regarded talent in the UK indie filmmakers circles, known for her excellence as a storyteller in many forms. She came to prominence as an actor playing recovery methamphetamine addict Rebecca in Mike Dawson's feature film Confession. Screen credits include; playing Greta Batchley alongside Seyan Sarvan and Jamie Robson in mystery Spin State and BBC TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy. Aurora won The Pitch at Pinewood in 2014 and made epic sci-fi short Pulsar with David Gyasi and Jessie Buckley. The international festival success helped Aurora take awards as Breakthrough Filmmaker for her short psychological thriller Murmur, which was commissioned by Directors UK. Aurora is developing a Sci-fi feature debut Tipping Point with producer Jude Goldrei with funding from the BFI.
Known For
A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.
Pulsar
Three generations of women face years of family resentments, betrayals and revelations during one life altering night together.
Womanhood
A group of people become interconnected by their shared memories, mirrored lives and consciousness.
Our Little Haven
A troubled private investigator plagued by strange blackouts and visions takes the case of a young scientist after a break-in at his apartment reveals a connection between her estranged husband and his own repressed trauma.
Spin State
Heavy dreamer, Aris Fletcher, has been initiated into the Seechers. After reading a forbidden text on how to enter the Subconscious World, Aris dabbles in his own powers, which puts his life in great danger.
Seechers
A series of vignettes that explore the seven deadly sins.
Seven Devils
Epileptic Kieran awakes from a four year coma preferring dream life to reality. Now an insomniac he works nights at a banking call centre slipping into apathy, but an unexpected caller challenges his anesthetic state bringing past and present colliding together.
Life on the Line
A London portrait photographer falls on hard times and turns to life as a Paparraza to support her family, yet discovers the pictures she takes have a direct correlation with her sister's eating disorder.
Paparazza
A young woman leaves the safety of her commune, but can she convince another to join her?
Murmur
On the sand dunes of her local beach a female jogger returns to the scene of a crime looking for closure.