A live session of the acclaimed podcast The Director’s Take, which explores how you go from directing something with your mates to being one of the most senior decision makers on a film set.
Hosted by award-winning filmmakers Oz Arshad and Marcus Anthony Thomas, The Director’s Take offers a look behind-the-curtain and demystifies what it takes to Direct Film & TV at the highest level.
For PUSH festival, they will be joined by Claire Tailyour who is currently directing hit TV show Waterloo Road.
Claire Tailyour is a director and writer born in Johannesburg, grown in the UK, trained in the US. She has directed hundreds of hours of television including lead directing on Channel 5’s thriller The Wives, BBC’s flagship dramas Beyond Paradise and Phoenix Rise, as well as Netflix/BBC’s Get Even S2. Her debut feature script Mother Wild won BAFTA Rocliffe and PAGE awards in 2020.
Claire’s shorts include Sundance London’s Ruby’s Skin starring Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) and Belittled starring Kiran Sonia Sawar (Black Mirror). As a writer, she is a Sundance International Scriptwriter Semi-finalist and a Semi-finalist for The Academy Awards’ Nicholl Fellowship, and wrote the Harper Collins web series adaptation of The Adventures of MacKenzie Blue. Whilst starting out in LA she assisted screenwriter Mark Goffman (West Wing, Law and Order, Sleepy Hollow).
A partnership with Rope Ladder Fiction & Waterloo Road for PUSH Festival 2025.
