Sloane U'Ren

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Sloane U'Ren is a British-American Director, Art Director, and Set Designer based in the UK. In 2012 she made her directorial debut with the multi-award winning feature film Dimensions (2011 film), aka Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads. Dimensions was voted Best Film 2012 at the 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and awarded the Gort Award. [1] Previous Gort Award winners have included Duncan Jones' Moon . [2] Dimensions went on to win Best Film at the London Independent Film Festival [3] and Best Film at the Long Island International Film Expo. [4] U'Ren was also awarded Best Director at the Long Island International Film Expo.

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She is married to the English screenwriter and composer Ant Neely.

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  1. New Empress Magazine "Dimensions has Gort it! Say Boston sci-fi judges… | New Empress Magazine". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
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