Annetta Laufer

"EXPLORING THE SPACE BETWEEN OPPOSITES" Writer/Director Annetta is the founder of Roman Candle Productions, a film production company focused on black and female–led stories. Her short films have (...) screened at national and international film festivals including Encounters Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, Uppsala Film Festival and the American Black Film Festival. Annetta is currently developing her feature film COLONY ROOMS, a drama set within the Caribbean community in 1960s Soho London, with the BFI and producer Joy Gharoro Akpojotor (Blue Story, Screen International Star of Tomorrow and BAFTA Breakthrough 2020). She is also developing her feature film RIVER MISTRESS with producer Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo (Netflix/Top Boy, John Ridley’s ‘Guerilla’) and Turnover Films. As a director, Annetta is attached to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's upcoming film adaptation of her Laurence Olivier Award winning play EMILIA, based on the life and times of Renaissance poet and Shakespeare contemporary Emilia Bassano. BAFTA nominated Manon Ardisson (God's Own Country) and Chiara Ventura from Ardimages UK are producing. "I feel now more than ever, that our current global politics is calling me to create work that celebrates the ‘different’, the ‘unusual’ and the ‘foreign’."