DAISY ASQUITH

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Daisy is a documentary filmmaker with 25 director credits for BBC, Channel 4, Irish Film Board and the BFI over the last two decades. She has won and been nominated for a number of awards, including a Grierson, RTS Best Documentary Series and a BAFTA. She has served on juries for Bafta, RTS, Grierson, Sheffield Docfest and the London Film Festival, as well as participating in international documentary festivals such as NYC Docs, Bok o Bok Moscow, IDFA in Amsterdam and Tribeca. She has filmed stories in Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, India, Russia, Pakistan, Japan, Iceland, on a cruise ship and across the USA.

Recent work includes a feature documentary about John Grant, still in production, the BBC’s Opera Mums with Bryony Kimmings, a documentary comedy which devised and staged an original opera about single motherhood; the BFI archive and music film Queerama, which opened Sheffield Docfest in 2017, toured the world for a year and was released on BFI DVD; After the Dance, a BBC Storyville feature about her own mother’s secret adoption from County Clare; and This is Not Us, a documentary installation at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts about the One Direction fandoms rejection of her documentary about them.

Daisy is Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and convenes the MA in Screen Documentary. She has an AHRC-funded Creative and Critical Practice PhD from the University of Sussex.