Best Girl Grip

#124: Eve Gabereau, Founder & MD of Modern Films

This week my guest is the wonderful Eve Gabereau. Eve is someone whose work and ingenuity I became aware of quite early on in my own career and she is someone I have wanted on the podcast for a good while. Eve is the Founder and Managing Director of …

#123: Jeanie Igoe, producer

This week my guest is producer Jeanie Igoe.  Jeanie’s big break came when she landed a role at A24, where her credits as a production executive include Barry Jenkins’ MOONLIGHT, Trey Edwards Shults’, IT COMES AT NIGHT, Bo Burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE and R…

#122: Hanna Flint, Critic, Author & Broadcaster

This week I’m thrilled to be chatting with film critic, broadcaster, podcaster and now author Hanna Flint, about her path into the film and media industry, as well as how her new book STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER was born. Having started out in various jo…

#121: Ines Adriana, Sound Designer & Mixer

My guest this week is the incredibly talented and prolific sound designer and mixer Ines Adriana. Ines studied for an MA in sound design at NFTS and has been credited on over 40 projects since 2020, including some incredible short films like Ruth Gre…

#120: Lucy Bright, Music Supervisor

This week, my guest is music supervisor Lucy Bright.  Lucy started out at Mute Records working with artists such as Nick Cave and Depeche Mode, before moving to Warner Classics for six years and then leaving to manage composer Michael Nyman. She join…

#119: Olive Nwosu, Filmmaker

Olive Nwosu is a Nigerian filmmaker, a BAFTA Pigott 2020 Scholar, an Alex Sichel Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, and one of four ‘African Promises’ directors selected by the Institut Français. She has directed two award-winning shor…

#118: Carmen Thompson, Curator & Creative Producer

My guest this week is Carmen Thompson a film programmer, curator and creative producer based in Scotland, who predominantly works with Black film and cinema from the African continent and the diaspora, especially at their intersections with non-ficti…

117: Adelaide Waldrop, Intimacy Coordinator

This week I spoke to Adelaide Waldrop, a certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy for Stage and Screen (ISS), where she trained with Lizzy Talbot and Yarit Dor and prior to that she was part of Ita O'Brien's company. She also serves as the Secretary…

#116: Reetu Kabra, publicist

My guest this week is Reetu Kabra, a London-based publicist with over 15 years’ experience working in house for renowned media and entertainment companies including the BBC and BBC Studios, UKTV, Discovery Networks and Penguin Random House.  During h…

#115: Aoife McArdle, Filmmaker

My guest this week is Aoife McArdle, a filmmaker from Northern Ireland who you may know from her recent stint as a co-director and producer on Apple TV's Emmy-nominated series Severance.  Severance depicts a world in which people can choose to surgic…