Film Tottenham is a creative hub for filmmakers and film in Tottenham. It is a member of BFI Film Audience Network and has screened over 70 short films in Tottenham. As part of the festival they’ll be a film screening followed by a panel discussion. 18+ only. 

Panel talk speakers:

Issabella Orlando – Writer, filmmaker
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Issabella Orlando is a Canadian-Italian writer and filmmaker based in London.
Working across poetry, personal essays, film, and multimedia journalism, her work explores our connection to our roots: mythologies, personal histories, culture, and craft.

TOPOS is her fifth film and first poetic documentary, blending two disciplines to tell a true story through a personal & experimental lens. The film draws on her southern Italian heritage, experience of grief, upbringing between cultures, and the sense of connection and pain of separation from one’s ancestral land.

Jessica Craig Roche – Director, writer, photographer
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Jessie Craig Roche is a Canadian Director, Writer & Photographer based in London.

Her feature script FLIGHTLESS BIRDS, a Nicholl Quarterfinalist, was chosen by Film London for the New Talent Strand of the Production Finance Market. It has been twice shortlisted for Telefilm Canada funding. It is currently in late development.

This follows the success of her short THREE THINGS WE WON’T TALK ABOUT at BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals.

As a photographer she’s worked with talents such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone.

Her work is in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery.

Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu – Writer, film producer, founder of Mzab Studios Ltd
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Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu is a writer, film producer and founder of MZAB Studios Ltd., an anthropological media company producing film and a quarterly publication at the intersection of adventure culture and spirituality. In her writing, she is deeply inspired by the strange and brilliant works that came before her (Crime and Punishment, Parable of the Sower, Metamorphosis, Waiting for Godot, Spirited Away) and often imbues surrealism/ magical realism into her most recent writing to explore a cosmopolitanism and identify that seldom gets to pervasively see the light. She is author of a poetry book with Lote Tree Press and Between the Two Worlds is her debut film produced through MZAB.

Sarah Montgomery – Actor-muso, singer, poet
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Sarah Montgomery is an actor-muso, singer and poet originally from Aberdeen. She came to London in 2021, graduating with an MA in Acting from East 15 Acting School. Sarah’s credits include Cairns (Sláinte! Theatre Company), Babysitting the Cheese (The Bread and Roses Theatre), two tours with TIE company Performance in Education, upcoming short film REM and she has been a cast member at the London Dungeon for three seasons. She hopes to finish her writing project Auld Lang Syne soon and to develop it with Sláinte! Theatre, who she’s worked with on multiple occasions as Community Coordinator and as Assistant Producer for Shepherd’s Warning.

Danny Baalbaki – Filmmaker
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Danny is a British-Arab filmmaker from North East London. He studied Human, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and Directing at MetFilm School. His work is shaped by a lived experience in urban working-class communities and a diasporic perspective, aiming to amplify underrepresented voices through thoughtful, visually driven storytelling.  

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