Anne Parisio – film director
Anne graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from the University of Liverpool John Moores. After helping to set up and run the Oxford Filmmakers Workshop for a number of years she returned to postgraduate study at the National Film & TV School in Documentary Direction. She launched her broadcast career by winning a BBC scholarship to direct her first film, RAGING BELLES, which drew six million viewers.
She worked in the broadcast industry as an award-winning freelance documentary camera/director, producing high rating films and series for BBC2, BBC Scotland, BBC3, C4, C5, HBO and Arte.
In between broadcast work, Anne worked as a sessional lecturer in film production at a number of universities including AUB and Greenwich and was MA Directing Supervisor at Bournemouth University during the summer of 2014.
In 2014 Anne joined the University for Creative Arts as first year unit leader of Digital Film and Screen Arts.
Anne has used the documentary form as a mode of enquiry to explore social issues: engaging her camera in the cause of the dispossessed and invisible communities living on the fringes of society. Subject matter has ranged from criminal justice, mental health, disabled sexuality and social work to a critique on US economic imperialism (A PIGS TALE). She has achieved 30 broadcast director credits during her 26 year professional career.
Alongside her freelance work Anne runs a production company to initiate and develop authored film projects. Parisio Productions has produced three films for broadcast and numerous short films for criminal justice NGOs.
Since joining the Digital Film and Screen Arts team Anne has returned to her Fine Art roots in a desire to re-invent her documentary practice in a more experimental form. She has negotiated access with Stormont Special School to create an interactive film which portrays the world from the perspective of children with SEN, she is creating an experimental macro time lapse self portrait and developing an underwater film project which examines an early Victorian victim of celebrity.
Anne has recently been collaborating with Billingham Festival Artistic Director Olga Maloney in producting and directing ‘Echoes of a Taiko Drum’ short screen dance & music film.