Hannah Renton is a writer/director from East London and a graduate of the MA Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School. She is interested in tender, subversive stories examining care, intimacy and our capacity for resilience.
She holds a BA in Philosophy and Psychology and her first no/low budget shorts screened at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals. She was then selected as a writer/director on the BFI Network x BAFTA Crew and Encounters Widening the Lens talent development schemes and earned a place at NFTS. There she made three films: SALT WOUNDS, currently on the festival circuit with upcoming screenings at Aesthetica, Romford and Women X Film Festivals; LOVE IS FREE, premiering online at Director’s Notes; and her graduation film GOSSIP, a 16th century tale of community, power and resistance, shortlisted for the BAFTA student award.
The feature film she co-wrote BOY MEETS BOY premiered at BFI Flare in 2021 and went on to win the Special Jury Prize at Kiev Molodist International Film Festival and the Alternative Spirit Award (Grand Prize) at Rhode Island International Film Festival.