Sophie Marshalsey
- Fourth Year BA Film Student @ Edinburgh Napier University
- Film Writer-Director and Cinematographer
- Inverness ~ Edinburgh
“I don’t really consider myself a female director, and I don’t want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.”
(Alante Kavaite)
This blog will cover both my university work, and my personal views on films, filmmaking and the film industry. I believe the only way to progress is through introspection and reflection, and deciding where we can – and must – do better.
When I was younger, I’d draw and read and write stories, and that was all I would do. Not much has changed except now I study film, a visual art medium, which I affectionately refer to as ‘the combination of all my passions’.
I didn’t realise it at the time but I was writing the stories I saw unfolding in my mind. In that sense, film has always been imaginative and visceral for me – a case of transferring the film in my head into reality, where other people could see it. It has always had to exist for a reason, and I’d find myself weaving in worldly issues in unobvious ways to provide a fresh perspective.
Whilst I’m currently writing the university chapter of my life, I’d like to think I’m in the draft stage of other chapters. After graduation, I hope to progress in my filmmaking career to the point where someone, somewhere, will see me and think to themselves ‘maybe I could do this as well,’ no matter who they are or what they look like.
That is what I envision for the future of film – one in which we benefit and learn from the stories of others, but most of all, the historically marginalised and silenced.