Director, Writer
Claire Tailyour is an award-winning writer and director of drama and documentary. Her debut feature script Mother Wild won BAFTA Rocliffe Features and PAGE Awards in 2020. She studied at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles and was a Sundance International Scriptwriter Semi-finalist ’15 and a Semi-finalist for The Academy Awards’ Nicholl Fellowship ’08 for her feature script Turnpike Princess.
TV & FILM AS DIRECTOR
THE WIVES 2023
Gaumont
Lead Director
BEYOND PARADISE 2023
3 x 60″ episodes – S02E01, S02E02, and Xmas Special
Red Planet Pictures
Director
PHOENIX RISE 2023
BBC/BBC iPlayer 13×30’
Lead Director
GET EVEN 2021
BBC/Netflix 4 x 30′
Lead Director
DECEIT 2020
Story Films/Channel 4 4×60′
2nd Unit Director
MOTHER WILD (Current)
Rocliffe Limited – Feature
Writer & Director
Project In Development
Winner of BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Film 2020
Grand Prize Winner of 2020 Page Award
MOVING ON 11 2019
LA Productions/BBC One 1×45′
Director
BAFTA Nominated Series
WILD BILL 2019
42MP/Anonymous Content/Shiver/ITV – 6×60′
2nd Unit Director
BELITTLED (short film) 2019
Slackwire Films. ARRI Challenge Alexa winner 2018.
Writer and Director
HOLLYOAKS 2016-2018
Lime Pictures/Channel 4 – 31×23′
Director
LIFE, DEATH AND CHEERLEADING 2016
BBC – 1×30′
30′ documentary for the BBC’s 100 Women season about a group of cheerleading Grandmas in Arizona.
Screened: AFI Docs and Underwire Film Festival
THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS OF DHAKA 2016
BBC – 1×30′
Self-shooting Director
Broadcast: BBC, BBC World, Newsnight and PBS.
Nominee: Best Investigative Documentary Asian Media Awards ’16.
WORKING LIVES: BERLIN and WORKING LIVES: TOKYO’S WOMEN 2015
BBC World News – 2×30′
Self-shooting Director
SINGAPORE AT 50 2015
BBC – 1×45′
RUBY’S SKIN (short film) 2013 -2014
Sundance London/Langham – 1×14′
Writer and Director
Starring: Olivia Cooke (Me & Earl & the Dying Girl), John Bowe (The Hour, Silent Witness).
Funded by Sundance London/Langham. Screened: Buffalo Film Fest ’14 (Best International Short), Eerie Horror Festival ’14 (Best Actress), London Independent Film Festival ’14, Sci Fi London Film Festival ’14.
WITNESS MONTHLY 2014
BBC – 8x 30′
Pilot episode which was then commissioned into a monthly history series.
IMPRESSIONS
Los Angeles Film Collective / WNET 13 PBS – 1×10′
February 2009
SILENCE
University of Southern California – 1×12′
January – June 2007
Fantasy horror written by Nicole Phillips (The Blacklist – Bad Robot)
Screened: St. Petersburg, Eerie Horror, Nickel Independent, Strasbourg International and First Look LA.
SELECTED PROMOS, COMMERCIALS, AND RADIO
BARCLAYS (2016)
3×1′
Short series of docu-commercials for Barclays.
LOVE LOATHE (2015)
Megan Henwood/Dharma Records
1×4′ music video
STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION (2014)
Lancia commercial – 1×6′
Commercial documentary for Lancia about urban culture in London.
WITNESS (2013-2014)
BBC – 60×4′
Flagship history and Sony award-winning radio programme commissioned into a television series. Shot in USA, Asia and Europe.
THE ADVENTURES OF MACKENZIE BLUE (2008)
Washington Square Arts/Buzz Marketing- 10×2′
Writer
Writing a web series based on the tween novels by Tina Wells. Based in Los Angeles.
JUST AROUND THE CORNER (2008)
Heineken/Low Stars – 1×4′ music video
Directing folk super group Low Stars and a large team on this $40k music video