Co-Director/Editor

Pinny Grylls

Pinny is a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough recipient, winning the BFI Chanel Filmmaker Award for her debut feature, Grand Theft Hamlet. Co-directed with Sam Crane and supported by the BFI Doc Society, the documentary was shot entirely inside the Grand Theft Auto video game. The film garnered significant international acclaim, winning the SXSW Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary and a Grierson Award. It also secured two BIFAs for Raindance Maverick and Outstanding Debut Documentary Director. Other awards include the Audience Award at Vancouver IFF, the Carnet Jove Jury Award at Sitges, and the Grand Prize at DMZ Docs. Longlisted for a BAFTA, it was released in UK and US cinemas before streaming on MUBI in February 2025. She is now writing her first fiction feature Signs of Life, a romantic comedy in BSL backed by the Uncertain Kingdom Fund. An Oxford graduate in Archaeology and Anthropology, Pinny co-founded the Birds Eye Film Festival. Her first short film, Peter and Ben, won awards at Aspen, LSFF, and SXSW. She has directed for Channel 4, The Guardian, and the BBC. Pinny is a proud member of the deaf community and a British Sign Language user. Her second documentary, Non-Playable Character, is supported by the Catapult Film Fund.

Co-Director

Sam Crane

Sam Crane is an award-winning filmmaker and actor working at the vanguard of performance and digital innovation. His debut feature, Grand Theft Hamlet, received international acclaim, winning the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at SXSW, a Grierson Award for Best Popular Culture Documentary, and the Frontier Competition Grand Prize at DMZ Docs. The film earned two British Independent Film Awards, was longlisted for a BAFTA, and is currently streaming on Mubi following a successful theatrical run in the UK and USA. As a stage actor, Sam has starred in premier West End and Broadway productions, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Farinelli and the King, and 1984. His extensive screen credits include Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (Apple), The Crown (Netflix), Trigger Point (ITV), and Poldark (BBC). Sam is currently a PhD candidate at the University of York’s School of Arts and Creative Technologies. His research employs an autoethnographic methodology to critically analyse his own performance practice as it traverses real and digital spaces, exploring the shifting boundaries of identity, embodiment, and presence in virtual environments.

Producer

Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff is an award-winning producer who runs Grasp the Nettle Films, a CE50 company (Creative England’s award to the top 50 creative companies in the UK), specialising in genre films and documentaries. In 2024 she was nominated as BIFA Breakthrough Producer She has produced many short films funded by BFI Network, Creative England, The Guardian and other schemes, developing regional and diverse talent relationships. The shorts have received international acclaim on the circuit. Her debut fiction feature as a lead producer alongside Jude Goldrei, THE SEVERED SUN written and directed by Dean Puckett and funded by Screen Cornwall, Onsight and HH5, which premiered at Fantastic Fest in Autumn in 2024 and was released in the US in May 2025 by Dark Sky Films, it is set for a UK release in October 2025. She produced acclaimed feature documentary GRAND THEFT HAMLET alongside fellow producer Julia Ton, which premiered at SXSW March 2024 and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, before a long festival run and a theatrical release in the UK, and in the US by MUBI as well as streaming worldwide. It won two BIFAs and a Grierson. She was named Film London Lodestar for Producing 2025. Her latest documentaries Our Land which premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest 2025 and Super Nature which premiered at BFI London Film Festival 2025 are doing the festival circuit currently.

Consulting Producer

Beth Levison

Beth Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director based in NYC. Her most recent producing effort, Made in Boise, premiered at the 2019 AFI DOCS film festival and will broadcast as part of Independent Lens’ 2019/2020 season. Prior to that, Levison produced 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide, about director Hope Litoff’s efforts to come to terms with the mental illness and suicide of her sister; it premiered at Hot Docs and was broadcast on HBO (2017). Levison’s additional independent producing credits include Personal Statement (2018), a feature-length documentary about three high school seniors who fill the college guidance gap in their under- resourced schools, and The Trials of Spring (2015), a cross-media project including a feature-length documentary and six shorts about women human rights activists in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. Her documentary directorial debut LEMON (2011) about Brooklyn-born poet and performer Lemon Andersen was shown at some 40 festivals around the world, selected by the State Department’s American Film Showcase and broadcast on PBS. Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Social Documentary Film, and mom to two boys.