We were excited to catch up with Underwire Award Winning Producer, Rosie Crerar, whilst at the Glasgow Short Film Festival this month. Here’s what she’s been up to since winning for NOCTURN at Underwire 2011.

“2010 was a busy year, I wound up my day job as Development Producer working with the consortium of Scottish production companies: DigiCult (Scottish Shorts initative), Brocken Spectre (SHELL) and Edge City Films (LORE); completed PARIS/SEXY wr/dir Ruth Paxton for DigiCult; and delivered my last Glasgow Short Film Festival as co-founding Director. I headed to the Berlinale Talent Campus, and picked up lower level production work to earn my bread working with the amazing production team behind Zam Salim’s UP THERE. I then headed down to London to produce my first project for my company Proud Mary, the last UK Film Council & Screen South commissioned digital short, NOCTURN wr/dir Leanne Welham. Whilst NOCTURN was in post with Oscar nominated editor Kant Pan, I was invited to attend the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, and was the only emerging European producer selected. I came back to London to finish up on NOCTURN and production manage the BAFTA nominated TUMULT! wr/dir Johnny Barrington for Young Films.

In 2011 Leanne was amazingly successful in the delivery of our festival strategy with NOCTURN premiering at SXSW, and going on to screen internationally and picking up the Producers and XX Awards at Underwire Festival. Also in 2011, PARIS/SEXY won the UKFC Best Short at London Short Film Festival, and I was in Australia, stuck in floods…! I ended up staying in Australia for a bit, working on Sydney Film Festival, with distributors Transmission Films, and co-programming and managing Flickerfest, Australia’s premiere short film festival and only with BAFTA and Academy accreditation. In June I came back to UK and took on the role of Acting Programme Manager of BFI Festivals. I delivered the first London Film Festival with the new Festival Director, and BFI Head of Exhibition, the amazingly talented and outrageously colourful, Clare Stewart. I also worked on the programme for London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. I am very proud of being part of the team that created and delivered these programmes and have now finished up at the BFI with a view to focus on my first love, filmmaking, working in tandem with my producing partner Ciara Barry to develop and produce an exciting slate of features and shorts. We’re based in both Glasgow and London.”

NOCTURN is distributed by Shorts International and available to purchase on itunes.

PARIS/SEXY is distributed by DigiCult.