Jeanie Finlay Explained

Jeanie Finlay is a British artist and filmmaker from Stockton-on-Tees.[1]

Early life

Finlay was born to an English mother and a Scottish father, who worked in life insurance. Her mother encouraged her artistic, creative side. Finlay credits a stay with her grandmother in Winchester during a period of teenage illness as key in her decision to follow a creative path. Finlay studied art at Cleveland College of Art and Design and then contemporary arts at Nottingham Trent University. Her first film Teenland, grew out of making an interactive installation artwork Home-Maker about the lives of seven housebound, older people living alone, in Derbyshire and Tokyo.[2]

Career

Finlay's work includes a documentary about the making of the final season Game of Thrones, The Last Watch, along with the Bifa-nominated Seahorse,[3] about trans man Freddy McConnell's pregnancy.

Her previous films include Bifa winning Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (about Jimmy "Orion" Ellis) the man many people believed was Elvis back from the grave, Panto! (a documentary about Nottingham Arts Theatre's 2012 pantomime production of Puss in Boots),[4] the Bifa and Grierson-nominated[5] The Great Hip Hop Hoax[6] and Sound it Out, a documentary about the last record store in Teesside which was the official film of Record Store Day.[2] The latter film was an early successful example of crowdfunding, having been rejected and then subsequently bought by the BBC.[7]

Awards

Filmography

As director

Feature films

Shorts

Notes and References

  1. News: Horsfield. Martin. Jeanie Finlay: 'It's the small moments that make a bigger story'. The Guardian. 20 June 2014.
  2. News: Male. Andrew. Jeanie Finlay: 'I don't film alpha males. They don't need more exposure'. The Guardian. 23 August 2021.
  3. Web site: British Independent Film Awards 2015: the winners in full. British Film Institute. en. 2019-03-06.
  4. News: Emm. Alison. Finlay. Jeanie. Jeanie Finlay. Jeanie Finlay on Pantomime. 3 February 2019. LeftLion. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203224243/https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2014/december/jeanie-finlay-on-pantomime-7147/. 3 February 2019. Nottingham.
  5. Web site: Grierson Nominees: The Great Hip Hop Hoax by Jeanie Finlay . 2023-02-11 . The Talent Manager . en-GB.
  6. News: Brocklehurst. Steven. The great hip hop hoax. BBC News Online. 10 September 2013.
  7. News: Gritten. David. The Great Hip-Hop Hoax director: 'they created these characters that they despised and hated'. The Telegraph. 6 September 2013.
  8. Web site: 23 August 2021 . Broadcasters, artists, business leaders and a Royal wedding musician to collect honorary degrees and awards from NTU .
  9. Web site: Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival. sheffdocfest.com. 2019-03-06. 13 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190213133537/https://sheffdocfest.com/articles/100-sheffield-doc-fest-award-winners. dead.
  10. Web site: British Independent Film Awards 2015: the winners in full. British Film Institute. en. 2019-03-06.
  11. Web site: Jeanie Finlay. film.britishcouncil.org. British Council. 3 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203223055/http://film.britishcouncil.org/jeanie-finlay. 3 February 2019. 4 March 2015.

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