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Laura Hastings-Smith
Hunger
Laura Hastings-Smith is an independent producer. She has most recently produced the feature film Hunger directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen. A compelling and visceral portrayal of life within the Maze prison around the time of the 1981 IRA hunger strike Hunger stars Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham, and is written by the award-winning screenwriter and playwright Enda Walsh and director Steve McQueen. The film opened ‘Un Certain Regard’ in Cannes winning the Camera D’Or and Fipresci International Critics Award. Hunger was in competition and won the inaugural Sydney Film Festival Prize and Jerusalem’s Spirit of Freedom award.
Laura is also producer on the feature project This Charming Man, in development with EM Media with the writer/director Meloni Poole and Phil Nodding as co-writer.
She is also currently taking part in the film business training programme ‘Inside Pictures’ 2008.
At Dazed Film & TV between 2000 and 2005, Laura produced a broad slate of innovative projects for TV, internet, mobile phone, live concert and theatrical platforms; from the short film Perfect and the multi-platform film project Stop For A Minute for Film4, to a spoof-documentary featuring the cartoon band Gorillaz plus their creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett for Channel 4.
In 2005, Laura produced the award-winning feature film The Lives of the Saints, directed by Rankin and Chris Cottam and written by Tony Grisoni.
Before founding Dazed Film & TV with publishers Jefferson Hack and photographer Rankin, Laura was an established documentary director and producer.
Laura joins The Script Factory as one of our Friendly Producers in Autumn 2008.
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