Ruth Pickett is a BAFTA-winning, Emmy-nominated and Broadcast Digital Award winning Writer & Director, with a particular interest in cinematic, visually dynamic, character-driven comedy-drama.
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Ruth recently won a BAFTA for directing BBC Comedy short film QUIET LIFE. Starring Luke Rollason (breakout star of Extraordinary on Disney+) the film was also accepted into numerous Bafta-qualifying film festivals including Aesthetica and the BFI London Film Festival. Ruth's other television directing credits include all of Series 3 of critically acclaimed LADHOOD for BBC3 - written by & starring Bafta-nominated comedian Liam Williams - and Comedy Central's 6-part digital series TRANSACTION, written by & starring Jordan Gray, which won a Broadcast Digital Award for best short-form scripted series.
Ruth has shot second unit for Oscar winning comedy director Taika Waititi and legendary commercial director Bryan Buckley and her comedic charity commercial for Resuscitation Council UK, starring Sex Education's Connor Swindells, was a finalist in the British Arrow awards. Her political campaign film Swing It Girls, starring Jayde Adams, was designed to encourage women to vote in the general election. Ruth is is a member of Bafta Connect and female film collective Cinesisters.
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Ruth's award-winning short films and music videos have played at numerous highly-regarded international festivals including the UK's biggest comedy film festival, LOCO, Bafta-qualifying festivals Aesthetica and Underwire, female genre pioneers Etheria and Hollywood Comedy Shorts - run by the Oscar-qualifying Hollyshorts team.
Ruth grew up in Yorkshire where she attended a state school, is of English and Turkish heritage and comes from a multi-racial family. She has two cats called Eric and Ernie, who are the real brains behind the operation. She is represented by Curtis Brown for narrative work and Hungry Man for commercials.
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