A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Clare Sturges is an award-winning director and experienced senior copywriter. Her career spans independent film, factual TV, magazine publishing, advertising and marketing. Clare works with some of the world's best-known brands through creative agencies as a freelance copywriter, scriptwriter and director. She is an Associate Member of BAFTA and qualified with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Clare won the BAFTA Cymru Breakthrough Award for her documentary Sexwork Love & Mr Right in 2015. She won the BAFTA Cymru Short Film Award 2016 for My Brief Eternity, which was nominated for awards at London Short Film Festival and the UK Film Festival. My Brief Eternity was longlisted for a British Independent Film Award in 2016 and the EE BAFTA for British Short Film 2017. Clare has been shadowing director Euros Lyn since 2017: on Ch4 mini-series Kiri, Jack Thorne’s BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials and Film4 feature Dream Horse. In 2018 and 2019 Clare wrote and directed narrative short The Arborist through the BFI.Network, and she completed documentary shorts for charities Mencap and Age Cymru. Clare is the recipient of a Diverse Cymru bursary in partnership with Screen Skills and the High-end TV Levy Fund, and a training grant from the Welsh Broadcasting Trust.
Director:
2012 Sexwork & Me
2013 Sexwork, Love & Mr Right
2020 The Arborist
2022 Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me
Producer:
2012 Sexwork & Me
2013 Sexwork, Love & Mr Right
2020 The Arborist
2022 Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me
Writer:
2012 Sexwork & Me
2013 Sexwork, Love & Mr Right
2020 The Arborist
2022 Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.