Emma Moffat is a Cumbrian Writer and Director particularly interested in action and unusual stories from the past. Following a state school education, she read History at Cambridge (where she studied under the official Historian of MI5 for two years) and has a keen interest in warfare, secret intelligence and women’s history.
Currently she is developing a comedy historical TV series FOOLISH with Mighty Pebble Productions and is writing her debut feature film, PINCER, a spy thriller set in the 1980s as well as co-writing several history-related comedy projects with Briony Redman. Her next short film is in pre-production… watch this space for updates!
Emma’s script for A BATTLE IN WATERLOO won funding from the Bumble Female Film Force competition aimed at female filmmakers. The finished film, starring Oscar and BAFTA-nominee Jessie Buckley, had its world premiere at Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival and continued its run at various BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying festivals including Underwire Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and BFI Flare Film Festival 2020. As of 2022, Emma is a BAFTA Connect member.
Emma was nominated for the XX Award for Best Female Character at Underwire Film Festival in 2019 and for Best Director at the global Lift-Off Season Awards in January 2020.
Having started out as a Set PA on INCEPTION and worked in VFX on films such as CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, SKYFALL, and SPECTRE, Emma made her first short film EXPOSURE and some micro short comedy films. She was chosen in 2016 for Wieden + Kennedy’s creative incubator scheme and was shortlisted for the worldwide Jameson First Shot competition in 2017. In 2018 she assisted Christopher McQuarrie on MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT.
During the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier’s wife (Oscar and BAFTA-nominee Jessie Buckley) searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and resorts to desperate measures to survive.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS:
BFI Flare Film Festival 2020 (BAFTA-qualifying festival)
Underwire Film Festival 2019 (BAFTA-qualifying festival)
Santa Barbara Film Festival 2020 (Academy Award-qualifying)
HollyShorts Film Festival 2019 (Academy Award-qualifying festival)
Lift-Off Season Awards (Nominated for Best Director, Best Actor (Jessie Buckley) and Best Narrative Short Film)
Nottingham International Film Festival 2019
Two Short Nights Film Festival 2019
Shorts on Tap Film Festival 2019
London Lift-Off Film Festival 2019
Fastnet Film Festival 2020
Launched at London Short Film Festival 2019
Starring: JESSIE BUCKLEY, ALISTAIR PETRIE, SAMANTHA SPIRO, SOPHIA BROWN, PHILIPPE SPALL, SOPE DIRISU
Writer & Director: EMMA MOFFAT
Producers: TILLY COULSON, ANNA HARGREAVES
Executive Producers: AMY DOWD, ELISABETH HOPPER, JOHANNA WHITEHEAD
Director of Photography CATHERINE GOLDSCHMIDT; Editor PANI SCOTT; Composer ISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE; Casting Director LAUREN EVANS; Sound Designer FRED PEARSON; Costume Designer HARRIET WATERHOUSE; Production Designer SOFIA STOCCO; Hair and Makeup Designer VICTORIA POLAND; Colourist LUCIE BARBIER at COMPANY 3
Funded by BUMBLE with support from WDW ENTERTAINMENT
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