Claire Leona Apps

Claire Leona Apps

SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR

FOURTH YEAR – LOS ANGELES

Raised in Asia and educated at the London Film School, British-Canadian award-winning writer/director Claire Leona Apps's debut feature And Then I Was French, released in 2018, is a psychological thriller compared by critics to Andrea Arnold and David Lynch. Apps is known for her cross-cultural perspective and for using dark comedy to challenge ideas about society as we know it.

Previous writing and directing credits include Gweipo, Girl Blue Running Shoe, Ruminate and Ages of Man. Her work has been screened on the BBC, shown at The Great North Museum and premiered at prestigious festivals such as St. Louis International Film Festival, Cork Film Festival,, Florida Film Festival and North East International Film Festival. She worked with outstanding actors such as Francesca Annis, Olivia Poulet, Joanna Vanderham and Rebecca Hall.  In her spare time, Claire runs the Soho House Women Writers’ Salon at Holloway House.

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