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Martin Tunnicliffe-Squirrell

Director
Screenwriter, Producer.
South West

About Me:

Where I work: I run my own company or organisation
Technical Skills: I know my way around a set.

Training:

2019 - 2021
DeMonfort University, Film-making with Raindance

Links:

My Work and Credits:

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Grave (2021)

About: Grave's my first proper short. I wrote, produced {with another} and directed it. It's just embarked on the film festival circuit.
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Mazey Day Test Shoot (2019)

Photos:

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

The Godfather 1 & II, Taxi Driver, Kind Hearts & Coronets

I cried watching:

A River Runs Through It, 2017, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I left the cinema during:

Never.

Directors I love:

Lynne Ramsay, Joanna Hogg, Marty Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow, Billy Wilder, Louis Malle, Boon Joon Ho, Ang Lee, Frederico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola..

Actors I admire:

Pam Grier, Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Heath Ledger, Robert De Niro, Alec Guinness, Idris Elba, Barbara Stanwyck

Writers I Respect:

Nora Ephron, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Schrader, Quentin Tarantino, Greta Gerwig, Lawrence Kasdan, Stephen Zallian

My desert island discs:

Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Chuck Berry - any, Prince Buster, James Brown, 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag.'

Books I have given my friends:

Circe, Madelaine Miller; House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende; The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula Le Guin.

My death row meal:

Marmite on Toast and a bottle of Krug 1988

The best thing I own:

My surfboards.