Ursula is a British filmmaker based in NYC and London, whose films have been shown at major festivals worldwide and have gained Emmy, BAFTA, Grierson, RTS, Broadcast, Mind Media and One World Media awards and nominations. She is currently working with executive producer Mandy Chang and actor Ruth Wilson on The Second Woman, an inno... Read More

Ursula is a British filmmaker based in NYC and London, whose films have been shown at major festivals worldwide and have gained Emmy, BAFTA, Grierson, RTS, Broadcast, Mind Media and One World Media awards and nominations. She is currently working with executive producer Mandy Chang and actor Ruth Wilson on The Second Woman, an innovative feature documentary centred around a marathon 24 hour theatrical experience. Her feature documentary, My Brain: After The Rupture, co-produced with Concordia Studio (Summer of Soul) about a young musician recovering from a brain injury, is currently streaming on BBC iPlayer.  Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, streaming on Netflix, was in the Netflix Top Ten globally for three weeks.  The Lost Sons, an Emmy-nominated feature documentary for CNN Films which tells the story of a baby stolen at birth, premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and is now streaming on HBO Max. Her BAFTA, Grierson and Emmy-nominated feature documentary Untouchable, about the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein, made with Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was screened at numerous festivals worldwide, and broadcast on Hulu and BBC Two.  Previously, Ursula directed a film about the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in Paris for Channel 4 in the UK. In 2018 she was nominated for the best single documentary BAFTA for the BBC Three feature documentary One Deadly Weekend in America, telling the stories of the fatal shootings of seven young people over one weekend in America.  Her multi award-nominated feature documentary Breaking Up With The Joneses, for Channel 4, was recently included in the Grierson Trust’s must-see 50 documentaries of the last 50 years.
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