Tracy Spottiswodde

Tracy is an award winning writer-director working in film, animation, TV, theatre, radio and immersive XR. She began her career as actor and designer working with companies such as Volcano, Cardiff Lab and IOU before moving into writing and directing. Time spent studying and working in former Czechoslovakia inspired many cold war themed projects including her first animated film Codename Corgi, recipient of 6 major awards including 1st BAF, Gold in Chicago & 2 x BAFTA Cymru. Further animations followed as well as radio and theatre plays, TV series and funding for original feature screenplays from BBC Films. Between 2010-2017 Tracy worked with Ffilm Cymru Wales as Development Exec and BFI NETWORK Manager, overseeing a slate of 50 features in development and exec producing more than 50 short films, as well as managing training and mentoring schemes in partnership with S4C, BBC and Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. In 2018 Tracy received a Creative Wales Award to research and develop narrative storytelling in Extended Reality. She was selected for the LIM Less Is More European script lab in 2019 to develop bilingual debut feature Tremble which is supported by Ffilm Cymru Wales and received a Beacons award to make LGBTQ short film Sally Leapt Out Of A Window Last Night. In addition to filmmaking and screenwriting she works as a script editor and development producer for independent production companies which helps her feed two cats with ridiculously expensive tastes.