ABOUT

Margo Roe is a Director, Writer and Movement Director from the Midlands, UK.

In 2016 she was commissioned by Channel 4/Creative England Random Acts programme to direct and choreograph Name, a short dance film now available on the Channel 4 website. She then went on to create her short film Searching for Cowardice as part of the BBC New Creatives programme and broadcast as part of BBC4’s Female Filmmakers screening. Searching for Cowardice is now being adapted as a TV series with BFI Young Audience Content Fund and was selected for the Torino Series Lab 2021. Having trained in dance, Margo continues to create experimental dance films and pushes the boundary between movement and dialogue on screen.

Margo’s BFI Midlands Short film ‘POP’ has screened at BAFTA & BFIA qualifying festivals Bolton, Underwire, British Shorts Berlin and Iris Prize 2021, where is was nominated and placed in the top 3 for the Best of British category. Her latest short film Monitor was a collaboration with writer & poet Ben Norris and funded by BFI/BBC, recently screened at Aesthetica, Manchester, Outshine Mimi, Beeston and British Shorts Berlin.

Margo is currently in early development with her debut feature film EAT and collaborating with writer Omar Khan on the short film HE. She is stepping into TV having worked with Dionne Edwards as Shadow Director and Splinter Unit Director on Steve Knight’s: A Thousand Blows [Series 2,Block 2 - Disney, The Story Collective, Matriarch Productions].