Hannah Renton is a writer/director from East London and a graduate of the MA Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School. She is interested in tender, subversive stories exploring care, intimacy and our capacity for resilience.
She holds a BA in Philosophy and Psychology and her first no/low budget shorts screened at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals. She was then selected as a writer/director on the BFI Network x BAFTA Crew and Encounters Widening the Lens talent development schemes and earned a place on the Directing Fiction MA at NFTS. There she made three films: SALT WOUNDS, which screened at Aesthetica FF and won Best Cinematography at Women X FF and Best Student Short at Southport FF; LOVE IS FREE was one of only 12 films nominated for Best UK Short at London Short Film Festival 2024 and is available on Director’s Notes and Minute Shorts; and her graduation film GOSSIP, a 16th century tale of community, power and resistance, shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Award and exhibiting in the Museum of Enclosures at the House of Annetta in London.
The feature film she co-wrote BOY MEETS BOY premiered at BFI Flare in 2021 and went on to win the Special Jury Prize at Kiev Molodist International Film Festival and the Alternative Spirit Award (Grand Prize) at Rhode Island International Film Festival.