Dorothy is an award-winning filmmaker from London whose work has screened at festivals including London Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand, Oberhausen, Doc NYC and Sheffield DocFest, and on news and broadcast channels including PBS, Guardian Documentaries, Vice and the BBC. She has a particular interest in merging documentary and theatrical practices, blurring the line between performance and reality. She’s a founding member of the award-winning theatre company Breach and associate artist of Kestrel Theatre, who use the arts in prisons to help change lives. In 2019 she completed an MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths University, received the BFI New Talent Award, and was named as one of Broadcast’s Hotshots. In 2022 she worked as director’s assistant on the Netflix series Kaos and was selected to take part in Network @LFF. She is currently a member of Bafta Connect and is developing her debut feature.

“The themes explored in Weekend Dad are personal to me and the work I make as a woman who has experienced the impact of mental ill health and suicide on an individual and a family. Father-daughter relationships are sparsely represented on-screen and men so often play the role of the unfaltering hero, with women and children in supporting, subordinate roles. I want to challenge these gendered roles, favoring a much more complex approach to human psychology. It’s ultimately about the relationship between a father who’s tender, loving, but troubled– and a girl who is bold, decisive and mature beyond her years. Weekend Dad is an urgent, gripping, cinematically bold drama about one man’s struggle to situate himself within a social context and work out his identity as a father.

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