ABOUT

Amelia is a Welsh director from Carmarthen, as well as a writer, filmmaker and actor graduate of the Manchester School of Theatre. 

 

She has a keen interest in female led regional stories focusing on community, culture, language and landscape with four ongoing directorial/writing projects. For theatre, directing 'Baggy Bra' by Izzy Searle which has showcased at The Bridge House theatre in London, The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham, Greater Manchester Fringe (winning best comedy and OffFest nominated), and most recently The Kings Arms theatre in Salford.

For film, projects include several scripts such as 'Sea Pink', in addition to 'The Trio' which went into production last December, screening at Birmingham film festival. These are produced through a newly female-founded production company, Homebird Films. 'Sea Pink' has recently been long listed for the Slick Film Fund. 

 

In 2023, she was invited to be on the jury for the BAFTA Cymru Directing: Fiction category, where she is now a member, and at the end of that year, graduated from the National Film & Television School on their 6-month Filmmaking Certificate course fully supported by a BFI Scholarship and ScreenSkills bursary.

In 2024, Amelia took part in HOME Theatre's first Filmlab cohort. As well as this, she directed a Welsh-language funded short ‘Milodfa’ with It's My Shout Productions. This will be broadcast on S4C and is now available for a limited time on BBC iPlayer, released on 3rd February 2025.

 

As a freelancer in television, film and commercial – recent credits include a sound assistant on ‘Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker’ S2, and a production assistant for the spring/summer Alexander McQueen campaign.