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, 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 Co-Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and convenes the MA in Screen Documentary. She holds an AHRC-funded Creative and Critical Practice PhD from the University of Sussex. Her research interests are: representation and shame, performances of gender and sexuality, hybridised forms of documentary filmmaking, archive film, practice research methodologies and industry diversification.