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Victoria Mapplebeck

Filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck, with blonde hair and a tweed jacket, in front of the London Eye.

This episode, our featured guest is multiplatform artist, and BAFTA winning producer and director Professor Victoria Mapplebeck.

For the last two decades, Victoria has experimented with the frontiers of documentary and creative technology, focusing on telling stories in small intimate spaces.

Her first smartphone short 160 Characters won Best Documentary at the 2017 Short of the Week Film Awards. Her follow up doc Missed Call, filmed on an IPhone X, picked up a Bafta and a Broadcast Digital Award.

In 2019, The Waiting Room – a VR project that captured her experience of breast cancer from diagnosis to recovery won the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling.

If you want to watch Victoria's award winning films, or read more about her work, click here.
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