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Sheila Nortley

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  • Writer
  • Director
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Sheila Nortley
Sheila Nortley is an award-winning writer/producer from London, with a scope of work that extends internationally across film and television.

Her film work includes producing the independent feature film Sable Fable, which went on to win Best Film at the prestigious American Black Film Festival awards in Miami, Florida; and Limbo, which was filmed in Virginia and selected at various international festivals including Cannes Pan-African Film Festival. She also recently directed the short film Moon Over Aburi, which has been selected at Rhode Island International Film Festival 2023, Joburg Film Festival and PAFF 2023 in LA.

Sheila's writing work includes the short film Sometimes I Feel, which was selected for the Oscar Qualifying PAFF festival in LA 2020. She has participated in multiple writers' rooms, including for two dramas being developed for Netflix and Channel 4 and the new upcoming drama A Town Called Malice, for SKY and Vertigo Films which will premiere on SKY in 2023.

In 2020, Sheila secured an unprecedented development deal with SKY to develop new television series, and was also selected to join the BFI Network x BAFTA crew 2021. Through these initiatives, Sheila worked alongside BAFTA and Emmy award-winner Matthew Barrett and BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Miles Ridgway on I Am Mary, which she directed. Her additional directing credits include short films Joy, Sacred Knowledge and music videos for Too Bold and We Roll by Shingai.

In 2021, working with Red Production company, Sheila produced Netflix's global hit drama Stay Close, starring Cush Jumbo and Richard Armitage.

Sheila spent 2022 producing new superhero show Supacell for Netflix, created by Rapman, and developing her debut feature script Birdsong, with BFI, Film London and the BBC. Birdsong was selected for The Brit List, an annual showcase of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK, compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies financiers, distributors and broadcasters.

In 2016, Sheila won the Woman of The Future award in Arts & Culture for her work in film, and in 2018 she became an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
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On set of Stay Close with Cush Jumbo
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James Barnes, Sheila Nortley and Stephen Lloyd Jackson at ABFF - Miami, Florida
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Known for

Moon Over Aburi (2023)
Moon Over Aburi
Short
  • Director(directed by)
  • 2023
Wil Johnson, Scott Peden, Shereen Walker, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Georgia Curtis, Jaye Ceesay, James G. Nunn, and Natasha Culzac in The Strangers (2019)
The Strangers
6.4
  • Producer
  • 2019
Colette Dalal Tchantcho and Raksha Hoost in I Am Mary (2020)
I Am Mary
Short
  • Director
  • 2020
Supacell
TV Series
  • Producer

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Producer

  • A Game of Two Halves
    • producer
    • Post-production
  • Supacell
    • associate producer, producer
    • Post-production
    • TV Series
  • Nia
    • executive producer
    • Completed
    • Short
  • Egg and Chips
    • executive producer
    • Post-production
    • Short
  • Wildfire (2022)
    Wildfire
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish, and Cush Jumbo in Stay Close (2021)
    Stay Close
    • producer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2021
  • Things I Never Told My Father (2021)
    Things I Never Told My Father
    • associate producer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Breathe (2021)
    Breathe
    • executive producer
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Sacred Knowledge (2020)
    Sacred Knowledge
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Zaraah Abrahams and Johnny Ray Gill in Sometimes I Feel (2020)
    Sometimes I Feel
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Anya Engel-Adams and Johnny Ray Gill in DVD & Chill (2020)
    DVD & Chill
    • co-producer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Wil Johnson, Scott Peden, Shereen Walker, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Georgia Curtis, Jaye Ceesay, James G. Nunn, and Natasha Culzac in The Strangers (2019)
    The Strangers
    • executive producer
    • 2019
  • Nightshift (2019)
    Nightshift
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Jendayi Cesar and Jovan Pierre in Limbo (2016)
    Limbo
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2016
  • A Love Lesson
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2013
  • Sable Fable (2013)
    Sable Fable
    • associate producer
    • 2013
  • David Ajala in Illegal Activity (2012)
    Illegal Activity
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Ashley Walters, Aml Ameen, Kyla Frye, Michael Idubor, Shomari Brown, and Vanessa Vanderpuye in Zion (2011)
    Zion
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Drink, Drugs and KFC
    • co-producer
    • Short
    • 2011

Writer

  • The Mels (2021)
    The Mels
    • Writer
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Breathe (2021)
    Breathe
    • Writer
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Sacred Knowledge (2020)
    Sacred Knowledge
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Zaraah Abrahams and Johnny Ray Gill in Sometimes I Feel (2020)
    Sometimes I Feel
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Wil Johnson, Scott Peden, Shereen Walker, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Georgia Curtis, Jaye Ceesay, James G. Nunn, and Natasha Culzac in The Strangers (2019)
    The Strangers
    • Writer
    • 2019
  • Jendayi Cesar and Jovan Pierre in Limbo (2016)
    Limbo
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2016
  • A Love Lesson
    • co-writer
    • Short
    • 2013
  • Ashley Walters, Aml Ameen, Kyla Frye, Michael Idubor, Shomari Brown, and Vanessa Vanderpuye in Zion (2011)
    Zion
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2011

Director

  • Moon Over Aburi (2023)
    Moon Over Aburi
    • Director (directed by)
    • Short
    • 2023
  • Shingai Shoniwa in Too Bold (2021)
    Too Bold
    • Director (directed by)
    • Music Video
    • 2021
  • Colette Dalal Tchantcho and Raksha Hoost in I Am Mary (2020)
    I Am Mary
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Jolade Obasola and Mustaqeem Onifade in Joy (2020)
    Joy
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Sacred Knowledge (2020)
    Sacred Knowledge
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2020
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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