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Sarah Punshon
Sarah is a freelance director based in Yorkshire. Having trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she won a place on the Channel 4 Theatre Directors Scheme, and was funded by Channel 4 to work as Assistant Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse for nearly two years. Whilst at WYP she assisted on large-scale projects, working with actors such as Christopher Eccleston and Michael Pennington, and directed her own productions, mainly new writing. Since going freelance in 2005, she has directed at the New Vic Theatre in Stoke, Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, West Yorkshire Playhouse, York Shakespeare Project, and Angel Productions. In 2006 she was selected for the BBC Drama Directors Academy and trained in directing for television, multi-camera and single camera. Since then she has directed Eastenders, Doctors, and Emmerdale, and is due to direct more next year. She script-reads for the BBC, North-West Playwrights and Birmingham Write Live. This Way Up is her first short film.
Sarah has been selected onto the Digital Shorts Scheme with the project This Way Up
This Way Up is the heartbreaking story of a seven-year old boy who posts himself to Heaven in the hope of being reunited with his dead mother. Following Jason as he travels in his cardboard box, with only sandwiches and a GameBoy for comfort, the drama travels back in time to the last day of his life with his Mam. Seen entirely from his child’s eye view, this is both a realistic tale of loss and a metaphysical journey of innocent hope, taking us from a Yorkshire sorting office to ‘Heaven’ itself. Beautiful, honest and funny This Way Up will be a powerful and haunting short film.
Sarah Punshon can be contacted at s_punshon@yahoo.co.uk