Filmography:
Born In Damascus (Short) 2021
- Director, Self-Shooter
- Funded by Screen Scotland and the SDI
- Winner of the Berlinale Crystal Bear for Best Short Film 2022
- Currently screening at Festivals internationally
Isle of Us (Short) 2020
- Director, Self-Shooter
- NFTS Graduation Documentary
- Premiered at Sheffield DocFest
- Nominated for BAFTA Student Award
Journey to Achill Island (Short) 2019
- Director, Self-Shooter
- NFTS First Year Documentary
What Happened to Baghdad (Short) 2018
- Director, Self-Shooter
- NFTS First Year Documentary
Like Sunday (Short) 2018
- Producer
- FIRST ACTS: films made by young filmmakers aged 16-25 from around the UK
Flight (Short) 2017
- Director, Self-Shooter
- Developed through ‘Bridging the Gap’ with the Scottish Documentary Institute
- Pitched: Sheffield Doc/Fest Mini Meet Market
- Nominated Best Factual – RTS East Student Awards
- Winner Best Under 25 – Underwire Festival 2018, Best Documentary – Norwich Film Festival 2017
- Official Selection – Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017, London Short Film Festival 2018, East End Film Festival 2018, Future Shorts 2018, Short Of The Week, The Atlantic Selects
Hester (Short) 2014
- Director, Cinematographer
- BAFTA New Talent Nominated 2014
- Edinburgh College Graduation Film
Saved By Shrapnel (Short) 2013
- Director, Self-Shooter
- Shortlisted: Creative Loop Awards – Student Showcase Creative Scotland 2013
TV Credits:
Junior Producer – BriteSpark Films, AMC ‘Death Comes Knocking’ 10×45” – Producing across all stages of production, including managing sensitive access and setting up shoots. Responsible for building trust with victims’ families and liaising with legal teams and police to ensure stories are handled with care and editorial integrity.
Assistant Producer – Sandpaper Films, Channel 4 ‘Becoming Taylor’ 2×60” – Casting and conducting research for a biographical music documentary about Taylor Swift for Channel 4.
Assistant Producer – Mentorn Media, ITV1 ‘The Murder of Nicholas Billingham’ 1×60” – Setting up shoots, operating the second camera, writing interview questions, conducting interviews, wrangling rushes, working up access, edit producing in the second edit and across compliance and fact-checking.
Assistant Producer – Universal Music, ‘Metallica Saved My Life’ feature film – Working with the producer across four simultaneous edits, addressing the Director’s notes and assisting the archive producer.
Assistant Producer – Raw TV, ITV1 ‘The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed’ 3×47” Setting up shoots, producing on location, directing the 2nd unit on location, working closely with the director on shooting scripts/editorial, sourcing archive, writing interview questions. Across compliance and fact-checking.
Assistant Producer – Wag Ent, Channel 5 ‘A Killer Makes a Call – The Murder of David Twigg’ 1×90” Kept on to work on the 90-minute – setting up shoots, producing on location, working with sensitive access contributors, thorough fact-checking at each stage of the editing process.
Assistant Producer – Wag Ent, Channel 5 ‘A Killer Makes a Call’ 5×60” – Setting up shoots, corresponding with contributors, securing access.
Assistant Producer – Transistor Films, Netflix ‘I Am a Killer’ series 5&6 12×40” – Brought back to work up access on the next two series: casting, corresponding with contributors, sensitive access.
Series Researcher (Lightbox ‘Secrets of Miss America’ 4×60” A + E Networks 2022) – Researching key history moments across the series with editorial input, conducting research calls, DIT on UK shoot, covering for the AP on UK shoot, corresponding with contributors, sourcing archive, thorough fact-checking at each stage of the editing process and time-coding scripts.
Series Researcher (Transistor Films ‘I Am a Killer’ series 3&4 12×40” Netflix 2022) – Casting, corresponding with contributors, securing access with sensitive subjects, sourcing archive, transcribing, thorough fact-checking at each stage of the editing process and time-coding scripts.
Researcher (Raw TV ‘Locked Up Abroad’ Nat Geo 2021) – Fact-checking, transcribing and time-coding scripts.
Researcher (Raw TV ‘Catching Killers’ Series 1 8×40” Netflix 2021) – Thorough fact-checking at each stage of the editing process, transcribing and time-coding scripts.
Director’s Assistant (Ch4 production ‘Help’ 2021) – Assisting director Marc Munden on one-off film produced by The Forge – shadowing the director, updating his script & making amendments, managing correspondence with the rest of the crew.
Director/self-shooter (Electronic Press Kit for ‘Help’ All3Media 2021) – Directing and shooting behind the scenes interviews with lead cast and crew on ‘Help’ – Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne and Marc Munden.
Development Assistant Director (‘Black Black Oil’ BBC Scotland 2021) – Assisting director Emma Davie, researching, casting and shooting tester footage with contributors.
LAURA WADHA 