Sarah Gavron debuted as a director with Brick Lane (2007), earning her a BAFTA nomination, and competed in New Directors at San Sebastian. Previously, for television, she had harvested other awards including the BAFTA for Best New Director for This Little Life (2003), which she helmed for the BBC. In 2013 her documentary The Village at the End of the World was nominated for the Grierson Award and won the Margaret Mead Award. In 2015 she directed her second feature film, Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep and Brendan Gleeson, winner of Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Awards. She directed some of Season 4 of Transparent for Amazon Studios.
Festival de San Sebastián