About me
Raised in Hong Kong and educated at the London Film School, British-Canadian award-winning writer/director Claire Leona Apps's debut feature And Then I Was French, released in 2018, is a psychological thriller compared by critics to Andrea Arnold and David Lynch. Apps is known for her cross-cultural perspective and for using dark comedy to challenge ideas about society as we know it. Previous writing and directing credits include Art Council-commissioned Girl Blue Running Shoe, Gweipo, Ruminate and Ages of Man. Her work has been screened on the BBC, shown at The Great North Museum and premiered at prestigious festivals such as St. Louis International Film Festival, Cork Film Festival, East End Film Festival, Florida Film Festival and North East International Film Festival. Her script Her Country Too was a Film Fatales Fellowship Finalist and rewarded a scholarship for Stowe Story Labs 2023 and participation in Cinestory 2023. She is a BAFTA talent and has worked with outstanding actors such as Francesca Annis, Joanna Vanderham and Rebecca Hall. Claire is currently working on her original fiction Audible podcast, Aqua Tofana, a family crime drama with fairy tale charm to be released in 2025. Her short story He stands in front of me enlightened has been published in For Page & Screen Magazine. In her spare time, Claire runs the Soho House Women Writers' Salon at Holloway House.
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