Jeanie Finlay

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Jeanie Finlay is a British artist and filmmaker from Stockton-on-Tees. [1]

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Early life

Finlay was born to an English mother and a Scottish father, who worked in life insurance. Her mother encouraged her artistic, creative side. Finlay credits a stay with her grandmother in Winchester during a period of teenage illness as key in her decision to follow a creative path. Finlay studied art at Cleveland College of Art and Design and then contemporary arts at Nottingham Trent University. Her first film Teenland, grew out of making an interactive installation artwork Home-Maker about the lives of seven housebound, older people living alone, in Derbyshire and Tokyo. [2]

Career

Finlay's work includes a documentary about the making of the final season Game of Thrones , The Last Watch, along with the Bifa-nominated Seahorse, [3] about trans man Freddy McConnell's pregnancy.

Her previous films include Bifa winning Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (about Jimmy "Orion" Ellis) the man many people believed was Elvis back from the grave , Panto! (a documentary about Nottingham Arts Theatre's 2012 pantomime production of Puss in Boots ), [4] the Bifa and Grierson-nominated [5] The Great Hip Hop Hoax [6] and Sound it Out, a documentary about the last record store in Teesside which was the official film of Record Store Day. [2] The latter film was an early successful example of crowdfunding, having been rejected and then subsequently bought by the BBC. [7]

Awards

Filmography

As director

Feature films

Shorts

  • 2010 Nottingham Lace
  • 2003 Love Takes [11]

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References

  1. Horsfield, Martin (20 June 2014). "Jeanie Finlay: 'It's the small moments that make a bigger story'". The Guardian .
  2. 1 2 Male, Andrew (23 August 2021). "Jeanie Finlay: 'I don't film alpha males. They don't need more exposure'". The Guardian .
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  6. Brocklehurst, Steven (10 September 2013). "The great hip hop hoax". BBC News Online .
  7. Gritten, David (6 September 2013). "The Great Hip-Hop Hoax director: 'they created these characters that they despised and hated'". The Telegraph .
  8. "Broadcasters, artists, business leaders and a Royal wedding musician to collect honorary degrees and awards from NTU". 23 August 2021.
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