Holly Ross’ film and pop video – button cute!

Holly Ross is the director of A Anderton Presenting, which was one of the winners of the My Family and Other Animals theme that aired on Channel 4 earlier this year. I asked her about herself, and this is what she sent me. [Make sure you check out her v cute pop video I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too.]

I am a film maker from Lancaster, which is a little historical city in the north west of England. At the moment I work as a producer/director for ITV Border in Carlisle making regional programmes for them but what I enjoy most is thinking of ideas for short films that I can film in my spare time and then making them!

I really really love making documentaries. What I love about documentaries is finding passionate and interesting people with amazing stories and putting their story and perspective on life ‘down to tape’. There are a lot of people in the world who are worth recording and in my work I hope to open up the door to these people’s lives and let viewers stand on the door mat agog! For me, it’s all about finding great people with spectacular stories, or filming the mundane in a spectacular way. Someone once said I was like the ‘Diane Arbus’ of television. I went red at that cos I really really like Diane Arbus.

I also write and play music too. I am in a band called The Lovely Eggs. We have a record out at the moment called ‘I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too’ on Filthy Little Angels Records, and we have played in some nice places like in Amsterdam and New York and on a steam train. I sing and play guitar and sometimes I write the music for the documentaries I make. I am going to America soon for 5 weeks and I am driving all the way down Route 66. I hope to make a film about it. I hope to makes films about lots of other things. I have too many ideas and not enough time. I am hoping my film being shown on 3MW might open a few doors for me that I might want to walk through because I am passionate about this and really want to make it as a film maker. xx

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