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Essex Girls

Navigating adolescence in Benfleet, Essex has not been straightforward for Bisola. Flipping the «Essex Girl» trope, this coming-of-age film explores Black British girlhood and magical female friendships. 

Yero Timi-Biu

Yero Timi-Biu is a multiple award-winning writer-director for TV and film with projects for HBO, BBC, Channel 4, BFI, and Audible. Timi-Biu has also been a staff writer on original shows for Sky One and Netflix. Her short films as writer-director 0.5%, Signs, and Beneath the Surface, and as director Essex Girls have played at international festivals in competition such as BFI London Film Festival, Encounters, Aesthetica, and Hamptons International Film Festival. Timi-Biu was one of Edinburgh TV Festival’s prestigious ‘Ones to Watch’ for 2020/2021.

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