Hannah Rothschild, Director

After studying history at Oxford University, Hannah Rothschild joined the BBC’s Music and Arts department and made profiles of artists, writers and filmmakers as diverse as Auerbach, Sickert, Picasso, Eisenstein, Kitaj and Satyajit Ray for series including Relative Values, The Great Picture Chase, Review, Omnibus and Arena. Her documentary films have been broadcast in Europe, Australia, America and Asia on major public networks.

In 1991 she produced the Scarlet Pimpernel with Richard E Grant for London Films, A&E and the BBC. Her short feature film, Eddie Love Mary played at festivals including Tribeca, Cleveland, Toronto, London, Foyle, Eureka, Raindance, Nashville, LA Shorts Festival and the AFI.

She's writes features and interviews for newspapers and magazines including Vanity Fair, The Telegraph, The Times, The New York Times, The Spectator, British and American Vogue.

Ridley Scott and Working Title have optioned her original screenplays. Recently she's contributed to books on Channel 4 and Corfu and is a judge of the Samuel Johnson Prize.