Ms Toni Hipwell
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Film Production
Biography
Toni is a multi-award-winning trans filmmaker whose work has regularly screened at Academy Award, Canadian Screen Award, BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals.
Her debut feature, Whoops! premiered at Raindance 2013 as a Top 10 pick and was the only British film selected for the Raindance Tour 2014. Since then, Toni has developed projects with the BBC and Searchlight Pictures, worked as the Video Producer for Young Thug Records in association with EMI Records and been selected for the inaugural Future of Film and IHS X FEAR incubators.
Toni's most recent projects include the award-winning adaptation of 'Standing Woman' by internationally acclaimed author Yasutaka Tsutsui which was nominated for the Yorkshire Film Award at Leeds International Film Festival 2021 and has since been acquired by ALTER. Her latest short, 'The Lure' was nominated for a Méliès D’Argent and toured more than 80 festivals around the world with sponsorship from CenterFrame.
Areas of Research
Interactive Narrative
Queer Genre Independent Cinema