Genevieve began her filmmaking career at 19 when she produced The Runner for which she entered The Guinness Book Of Records as Britain’s youngest feature film producer. Two more indie features quickly followed, White Angel, which played as the centrepiece film of The London Film Festival and Urban Ghost Story, which was her first foray into directing. Urban Ghost Story received many awards and accolades at film festivals around the world, including Karlovy Vary IFF,  Busan International Film Festival and premiering at The Edinburgh Film Festival. Variety and Screen International listed Gen as one of  'Ten Directors to Watch', and she was nominated for The British Independent Film Awards - The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director.

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Urban Ghost Story received great critical acclaim. A recent look at women horror film directors by Fangoria Magazine, highlighted Urban Ghost Story as a film that had been overlooked or forgotten describing it as "Comparisons to Ken Loach and Mike Leigh might seem hyperbolic, but Jolliffe and Urban Ghost Story ultimately don’t need to be tethered to big name fancy pants male filmmakers to justify how good it is; this movie stands on its own, and is an extraordinary snapshot of how poverty, shame, guilt and isolation work together, all through the enduring supernatural metaphor of the ghost."

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Variety describes the film as "Ken Loach meets The Exorcist" and as a "clever, often potent blend of British kitchen sink drama with fantasy elements that gains added resonance by being set in gruff, rugged Glasgow."

Time Out writes, "the film makes its point about the demoralisation of the urban disenfranchised while delivering a fair quotient of chills. Excellent use of suggestive sound and an impressive action finale, all done on a tiny budget."  

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Gen relocated to Hollywood where she immersed herself into the Hollywood industry, successfully selling spec scripts to Warner Bros., and various other production companies while repped at ICM and managed by Mosaic.

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Gen is also known as the co-author of a series of best selling film guide handbooks, The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, published by Bloomsbury  (The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook UK, The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook US, The Documentary Film Makers Handbook, The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook and Breaking into Hollywood). Her latest book, Screenwriters Advice, co-authored with Andrew Zinnes, has just been published by Bloomsbury. The books have received accolades around the world from the filmmaking community as well as academia being one of the necessary listed books to read  at worldwide renowned university institutions. 

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Gen is returning to the director's chair with How I Got To Now. 

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Andrew has a 20+ year in filmmaking starting with a career in feature film and TV development for producers Norman Lear (The Princess Bride) and Donald DeLine (Ready Player One) as well as USA Network (Monk, Suits). Following this, Andrew transitioned to screenwriting and sold ABSOLUTE ANGELS to Warner Brothers for production company Mosaic Media Group (Batman series) as well as commissioned MERMAID for 24/7 and TOM WILSON: LOST IN TRANSITION for Pfonetic.

    Andrew is the co-author of The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, the internationally best selling series on filmmaking and teaches Film Production at The University of Portsmouth. His latest book which he co-authored with Genevieve Jolliffe, Screenwriters Advice, has just been released by Bloomsbury. 

"A cut-to-the-chase book that goes to the heart of professional screenwriting…a book that you will go back to again and again."  Jack Epps, Jr., Professor at the John Wells Division of Writing, University of Southern California, USA.  

Haydn started his career in corporate finance, marketing and strategy, working for major London institutions including Imprima, RR Donnelly and Bowne where he managed the Due Diligence of some of the highest value international transactions in the markets. He went on to join BoxFly Media and managed the company’s transition from production services to feature film production, developing and packaging BoxFly’s own slate of commercially focused, elevated genre films.

 

Boxfly is driven by a successful producing team that bring years of experience and contacts across the film and finance industries. BoxFly is committed to producing commercially focused, elevated genre films that meet the expectations of sophisticated modern audiences. Working with high profile casts, first class scripts and realistic budgets, we adopt a focused, hands-on approach, collaborating closely with our partners to ensure our films reach full sales potential with maximum global exposure.

Lucy V. Hay  is a script editor, author and blogger who helps writers. She's been the script editor and advisor on numerous UK features and shorts & has also been a script reader for over 15 years, providing coverage for indie prodcos, investors, screen agencies, producers, directors and individual writers. She's also an author, publishing as both L.V. Hay and Lizzie Fry.  

Lizzie's latest, THE COVEN, has just been released with Sphere Books and L.V.'s debut crime novel THE OTHER TWIN is being adapted by the Emmy-nominated Free@Last TV.

Lucy's site at www.bang2write.com has appeared in Top 100 round ups for Writer's Digest & The Write Life, as well as been a UK Blog Awards Finalist and Feedspot's #1 Screenwriting blog in the UK (eighth in the world!). 

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To see more of Lizzie's books, please click here:  https://lucyvhayauthor.com/

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(photo above of Lucy with her son, courtesy of Jendella Benson).