Lucy Campbell

Creative England / BFI Funded

shot on 16mm

10 minute narrative short 

A female embryologist, driven by ambition and a desire to push the boundaries, illegally creates a part human-part pig embryo. Unwilling to stop the experiment, she secretly continues it, using her own body as  surrogate - not expecting it to become a viable pregnancy.  But it does..

Consumed and isolated by her arrogant decision she ultimately has to face her responsibility towards the life she has so thoughtlessly created.

THE PIG CHILD

www.thepigchild.com

The Pig Child | BFI NET.WORK

http://network.bfi.org.uk/funded-by-network/pig-child

We always knew Lucy's film would be outrageously ambitious - exploring complex themes through a sci-fi premise, with a very contemporary feminist perspective - but it's exactly the kind of film NET.WORK is here to support. 

Paul Ashton, Senior Film Executive - Talent, Creative England

World Premiere: Encounters Film Festival

Scottish Premiere: Edinburgh International Film Festival

Winner of Best Actress Award: Underwire Film Festival 

North American Premiere; Palm Springs Film Festival

Winner Best Sci-Fi: LA Independent Film Festival

Winner Best Cinematography: OtherWorlds Austin, Texas

Featured: Short of the Week

Winner of the Shakespeare's Sisters Screenplay competition 2016.

Commissioned by Film 4, Film London, Creative England, BFI and British Council for Shakespeare 400.

trailer  https://vimeo.com/175351391

MARINA & ADRIENNE

Marina and Adrienne on Short of the Week
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2017/11/08/marina-and-adrienne/

Interview by Lucy Campbell: Masculinity and Femininity Are Tested At Sea in Lucy Campbell’s Poetic ‘Marina and Adrienne’

Passing themselves off as fishermen, two fugitive female lovers find work on a trawler. Far out at sea, a violent storm picks up and Marina, revealed to be female and pregnant, gives birth on board, amongst the oil, ice and fish, to the shock and wonder of the old fishermen. Unable to stop the bleeding, Marina dies. In the grip of the merciless storm, and driven by superstition, the fishermen insist the body goes overboard, with the baby, the only way to calm the sea’s anger.

Toured with the British Council's Shakespeare on Screen Programme 2016 to 150 different international screening.

Selected festival screenings: 

Encounters Film Festival

Underwire Film Festival - Winner Best Producer

London Short Film Festival - Nominated Best Director

BFI Flare Festival

Seattle Shorts Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

Dinard Film Festival

Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

InShorts International 2017

Set in Manchester, UK, PIG CHILD is about a medical researcher who creates a pig-human donor to provide organs for a sick child.

Creative England Funded

15 minute narrative short

trailer :  https://vimeo.com/190354059

In the build up to a career-defining cello performance, a brilliant but self destructive student decides to stalk a phone sex client, as a rebellious diversion from her practice, taking her best friend with her.

Unable to face a likely breast cancer diagnosis, a woman spends her time in a seductive boy racer car.

Developed on Torino Film Lab 2019, shortlisted for Sundance Writers’ Lab 2020.