From under 25 to a very successful over 25, we’re very excited to hear from our winner of the Outstanding Female Talent u-25 category, Lucy Luscombe.

Underwire has been a great opportunity for me. The support from the team and exposure I’ve received has been like no other film festival I’ve been a part of. They’ve given me a platform to talk about my work and meet exceptionally talented directors, editors and scriptwriters.

Through Underwire I was picked up by production company Shameless, who I’ve been directing music videos for, and included in the Future Shorts Winter season which has enabled me to reach a huge global audience.

I’m currently in pre production for two fashion films; one for Janvier London featuring an eccentric ‘Donness’ and another for Wonderland Magazine in which four girls are sent to retail purgatory for their sins. I’m keeping my fingers – everything crossed for an opportunity to attend the Sundance Writers Lab to get my feature off the ground and looking for funding for an experimental short set at the end of a wedding reception where the combination of raucous celebration and personal reflection makes everyone go bat shit crazy.

You can see Lucy’s winning short film Candy Girl over on vimeo now.