Jeanie Finlay

Jeanie Margaret Finlay is a British artist and filmmaker from Stockton-on-Tees.[1]

Early life

Finlay was born to an English mother and a Scottish father, who worked in life insurance. Her mother encouraged her artistic, creative side. Finlay was prescribed lithium following a period of isolation as a teenager, and credits a stay with her grandmother in Winchester during this period as key in her decision to become a filmmaker. Finlay studied art at Cleveland College of Art and Design and then contemporary arts at Nottingham Trent University. Her first film, Home-Maker, grew out of an installation art project as part of her course at Nottingham.[2]

Career

Finlay's work includes a documentary about the making of the final season Game of Thrones, The Last Watch, along with the Bifa-winning Seahorse,[3] about trans man Freddy McConnell's pregnancy.

Her previous films include Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (about Elvis impersonator Jimmy "Orion" Ellis), Panto! (a documentary about Nottingham Arts Theatre's 2012 pantomime production of Puss in Boots),[4], the Bifa and Grierson-nominated The Great Hip Hop Hoax[5] and Sound it Out, a documentary about the last record store in Teesside which was the official film of Record Store Day.[2] The latter film was an early successful example of crowdfunding, having been rejected by the BBC.[6]

Awards

Filmography

Feature films

Shorts
  • 2010 Nottingham Lace
  • 2003 Love Takes[9]

References
  1. Horsfield, Martin (20 June 2014). "Jeanie Finlay: 'It's the small moments that make a bigger story'". The Guardian.
  2. Male, Andrew (23 August 2021). "Jeanie Finlay: 'I don't film alpha males. They don't need more exposure'". The Guardian.
  3. "British Independent Film Awards 2015: the winners in full". British Film Institute. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. Emm, Alison; Finlay, Jeanie. "Jeanie Finlay on Pantomime". LeftLion. Nottingham. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  5. Brocklehurst, Steven (10 September 2013). "The great hip hop hoax". BBC News Online.
  6. Gritten, David (6 September 2013). "The Great Hip-Hop Hoax director: 'they created these characters that they despised and hated'". The Telegraph.
  7. "Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival". sheffdocfest.com. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  8. "British Independent Film Awards 2015: the winners in full". British Film Institute. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  9. "Jeanie Finlay". film.britishcouncil.org. British Council. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.


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