Clair Titley

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Brought up in South and Southeast Asia, British director Clair Titley grew up watching Asia’s answer to MTV and visiting back-alley video shops to rent pirated copies of the latest western movies.Her work taps into the quietly surreal moments of life, while often being a trojan horse for comment on the world around us. Themes of identity and self-discovery run through her films – what it means to be young, old or even just human.Clair cut her teeth making oral history films for the BBC and quickly gained a reputation as a filmmaker with a talent for interviewing and for unearthing untold angles. As well as a BAFTA nomination, she has been nominated for the Royal Television Society award for ‘Outstanding New Director’.She has recently collaborated with producers Misfits Entertainment to develop, write and direct the feature-length documentary, THE CONTESTANT (2023). The film is one of just a dozen inaugural feature docs from leading independent studio MRC and will have its international premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).