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Josh Appignanesi grew up in London and studied anthropology at King's College, Cambridge. His debut feature film _Song of Songs (2005)_ starred Natalie Press (lead in BAFTA-winning My Summer Of Love and Oscar-winning short Wasp) in an intense sibling drama set in the closed world of orthodox Jews.  Produced by Gayle Griffiths, Appignanesi directed and co-wrote with LA Times Award short-listed novelist Jay Basu.

He previously made six short fiction films, acquired for channels like Sky, BBC, CBS, CBC, HBO, Fox.  Nine 1/2 Minutes (2002) starred Olivier-nominated David Tennant, premiered at Edinburgh 2003, and won 2nd place in the BBC Filmmaker Talent Award on BBC3.  He wrote super-35mm dramatic short Little Man (2004/I), shot in Cape Town with director Martin Brierley, shown in Competition at Berlinale, Stockholm, Tampere and other festivals. 

As writer-director his latest work is short film Ex Memoria about a woman with Alzheimer's, funded by The Wellcome Trust and starring Sara Kestelman.   He has also directed artists' videos and documentaries (C4), and co-founded production company Mercenary Films where his partner Misha Manson-Smith edited the EMMY- and BAFTA-winning docos Unholy War and Death In Gaza.  He has sold options on two feature scripts, family comedy My American Dad and thriller Close At Hand, to producer Mia Bays (Missing In Action Films), and is working on several projects with co-writer Jay Basu.

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