Faye Gilbert
Directing
Biography
Faye is a writer / director of broadcast drama and film and a self-shooting producer / director of documentaries. She’s currently directing all four episodes of THE TOWER Series 2 for Mammoth Screen and ITV. Faye was also recently lead director of ITV drama series THE BAY (Tall Story Pictures) and has just completed a Microwave commissioned feature film ZERO (BBC Films / BFI / Film London) which she wrote / directed and is due to be released later this year. Previously Faye was the 2nd Unit director for BBC1’s THE SALISBURY POISONINGS (dir. Saul Dibb / prod. Karen Lewis) and mentored by both Saul Dibb and Danny Boyle. She was selected as one of 2021’s Film London Lodestars, a list which celebrates talent who shine with outstanding creativity or craftsmanship. Her previous short drama films have been commissioned by BFI, Channel4, FilmFour and screened at major festivals across the world. Her short film PERDIE was BAFTA nominated, HARD LITTLE MAN won an Orange/FilmFour prize and her last short film THE LINE premiered and was in competition at Palm Springs film festival. Over the past ten years Faye has also series produced factual and current affair documentaries for Economist Films and produced / directed documentaries all over the world from Ch4 DISPATCHES, to a flagship Discovery medical series, as well as online factual content for VICE and YouTube.
Known For
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
The Bay
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
The Tower
Coming Up is a British Channel 4 television series of films made for television by new directors and writers. The first series was in 2006, and each year's series comprises seven or eight films. Series 6 was shown from July to September 2011. A reviewer in The Independent wrote: "Thank goodness for Coming Up ... it's a genuinely interesting display of possibilities".
Coming Up
Jules Maigret is a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants
Maigret
Set in a dystopian future, all adults have fled to the mainland. Two sisters will battle for survival and fight to find a safe haven.
Zero
A teenager struggles to come to terms with the death of her mother.
Perdie
A teenage girl and a young boy run for their lives to cross 'The Line', but are they running away from danger or towards it?
The Line
Joe Bonica sings the title song to a series of serving girls dressed in a stereotypically 'Dutch' style, albeit with very short skirts.
At a Little Country Tavern
An 11-year-old boy has been excluded from school for rough behaviour. Unable to get time off work, his mother leaves him outside in their garden to avoid him causing trouble. However, the boy finds ways of amusing himself.