A comedy about a liberated woman in Victorian England who must convince her newly widowed sister that life is worth living.

Writer - Kristy Mann

Kirsty is an award-winning writer and performer who studied musical theatre at the Royal Academy of Music. She wrote LADY BRENTLY’S END, a short film which was selected for 3 BAFTA-qualifying festivals, winning Best Screenplay at Exit 6 and the Chierici Prize at Reggio Film Festival.

On TikTok, Kirsty's sketch collaborations with writer-director Dipak Patel have been viewed over 30 million times.

Director Biography - Sam Baron

Sam Baron won the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship award for his script The Science of Love, and he has also written the feature Tonight to direct starring Niamh Algar and Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù. He has co-written the features Blue, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart (for James Marsh/BFI) and The Human Problem (for Scott Z. Burns). For television, Sam has developed original TV shows with Clerkenwell Films, DNA Films and New Pictures. He is in the writers room for Lockwood & Co (Netflix) and he is co-writing a new film with Alice Seabright. He has made a trilogy of short films starring Amit Shah: The Orgy, Big Ears, and Tall Dark and Handsome.