Joanna Hogg
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Joanna Hogg is a British film maker and screenwriter. She made her directorial and screenwriting feature film debut in 2007 with Unrelated
.
, who became an early mentor after a chance meeting in Patisserie Valerie in Soho. One of these, a film about a kinetic sculpture by artist Ron Haselden
, won her a place to study direction at the National Film and Television School
. Her graduation piece Caprice starred a then unknown Tilda Swinton
. On graduation, Hogg directed several music videos for artists such as Alison Moyet
, and won her first television commission writing and directing a programme segment for Janet Street Porter's Channel Four series Network 7, Flesh + Blood. In the 1990s, Hogg directed episodes of London Bridge, Casualty
and London's Burning
. She also directed the EastEnders
special EastEnders: Dot's Story (2003).
(2008) in Tuscany
. It tells the story of a childless woman, Anna (Kathryn Worth) of around forty who goes on holiday to Italy with her friend Verena (Mary Roscoe
) and her teenage family. Over the course of the holiday, tensions emerge as Anna spends less time with the 'grownups' and is drawn towards the teenage crowd and the attractions of Verena's teenage nephew (Tom Hiddleston
).
The film received critical acclaim, premiering at the London Film Festival
in 2007 and winning the FIPRESCI
International Critics Award. It also won the Guardian First Film Award in 2008 and the Evening Standard British Film Awards
'Most Promising Newcomer' Award in 2009, as well as being nominated for their Best Film Award and earning Hogg a nomination for the Critics Circle
'Breakthrough Filmmaker' Award in 2009.
Her second film Archipelago
had its UK premiere at the 2010 London Film Festival
, where it was nominated in the Best Film category. It was released in the UK on 4 March 2011 by Artificial Eye
..
Hogg's style is influenced by European and Asian directors such as Eric Rohmer
and Yasujirō Ozu
, using extended takes and minimal camera movement. She takes the unusual approach of casting a mixture of actors and non-professional actors in her films, such as the landscape painter Christopher Baker in Archipelago
. Her depiction of unarguably middle-class characters has prompted some commentators to see her work as spearheading a new type of social realism in British film.
Unrelated
Unrelated is a 2008 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a fortysomething woman who goes on holiday with a friend and her teenage family to Italy. It was shot on location in Tuscany, Italy near the city of Siena.-Synopsis:...
.
Early TV Work
After leaving school in the late 1970s, Hogg worked as a photographer and began to make experimental super 8 films after borrowing a camera from Derek JarmanDerek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
, who became an early mentor after a chance meeting in Patisserie Valerie in Soho. One of these, a film about a kinetic sculpture by artist Ron Haselden
Ron Haselden
Ron Haselden is a British artist who splits his time between London and the French coastal town of Plouër-sur-Rance, in Brittany, France. He works with light, sound, film and video, often as part of architectural projects....
, won her a place to study direction at the National Film and Television School
National Film and Television School
The National Film and Television School was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and it is located close to Pinewood Studios.-History:...
. Her graduation piece Caprice starred a then unknown Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...
. On graduation, Hogg directed several music videos for artists such as Alison Moyet
Alison Moyet
Alison Moyet , is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with 800,000 singles sold, all in the UK, where all seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 40 UK Album Chart,...
, and won her first television commission writing and directing a programme segment for Janet Street Porter's Channel Four series Network 7, Flesh + Blood. In the 1990s, Hogg directed episodes of London Bridge, Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
and London's Burning
London's Burning
London's Burning was a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.It was broadcast between 1986 and...
. She also directed the EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
special EastEnders: Dot's Story (2003).
Film
Hogg has said that "I wanted to make a film doing everything I was told not to do in television". She shot her first feature, UnrelatedUnrelated
Unrelated is a 2008 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a fortysomething woman who goes on holiday with a friend and her teenage family to Italy. It was shot on location in Tuscany, Italy near the city of Siena.-Synopsis:...
(2008) in Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
. It tells the story of a childless woman, Anna (Kathryn Worth) of around forty who goes on holiday to Italy with her friend Verena (Mary Roscoe
Mary Roscoe
Mary Roscoe is an actress, director, theatre producer. who was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. She emigrated to the UK to train at Rose Bruford College.Most recently she has appeared in the highly acclaimed film Unrelated by Joanna Hogg...
) and her teenage family. Over the course of the holiday, tensions emerge as Anna spends less time with the 'grownups' and is drawn towards the teenage crowd and the attractions of Verena's teenage nephew (Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston
Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston is an English actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor.-Early life and education:...
).
The film received critical acclaim, premiering at the London Film Festival
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...
in 2007 and winning the FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
International Critics Award. It also won the Guardian First Film Award in 2008 and the Evening Standard British Film Awards
Evening Standard British Film Awards
The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by the British London area evening newspaper Evening Standard. The Standard Awards is the only ceremony "dedicated to British and Irish talent," judged by a panel of "top UK critics." Each ceremony honours films from the previous...
'Most Promising Newcomer' Award in 2009, as well as being nominated for their Best Film Award and earning Hogg a nomination for the Critics Circle
Critics Circle
Critics Circle may refer to:Theatre* The Critics' Circle* Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle* New York Drama Critics' Circle* Outer Critics Circle AwardFilm* Film Critics Circle of Australia* Florida Film Critics Circle* Kansas City Film Critics Circle...
'Breakthrough Filmmaker' Award in 2009.
Her second film Archipelago
Archipelago (film)
Archipelago is a 2010 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a family holiday on Tresco, Isles of Scilly.-Plot:A darkly comic and quietly moving portrayal of a family in emotional crisis...
had its UK premiere at the 2010 London Film Festival
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...
, where it was nominated in the Best Film category. It was released in the UK on 4 March 2011 by Artificial Eye
Artificial eye
Artificial eye may refer to:* Visual prosthesis, functioning implant designed to restore sight* Ocular prosthesis, non-functioning cosmetic replacement for a lost eye...
..
Hogg's style is influenced by European and Asian directors such as Eric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
and Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujiro Ozu
was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work...
, using extended takes and minimal camera movement. She takes the unusual approach of casting a mixture of actors and non-professional actors in her films, such as the landscape painter Christopher Baker in Archipelago
Archipelago (film)
Archipelago is a 2010 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a family holiday on Tresco, Isles of Scilly.-Plot:A darkly comic and quietly moving portrayal of a family in emotional crisis...
. Her depiction of unarguably middle-class characters has prompted some commentators to see her work as spearheading a new type of social realism in British film.
Television Credits
- Flesh + Blood (miniseries for Network 7) Channel Four (1988)
- Kersplat (six episodes) Channel Four (1991)
- Dance Eight BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(1992) - Going Underground Carlton TelevisionCarlton TelevisionCarlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
(1992) - Oasis (10 part drama) Carlton TelevisionCarlton TelevisionCarlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
(1992) - London Bridge Carlton TelevisionCarlton TelevisionCarlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
(16 episodes 1995-1996) - Staying Alive (two episodes) LWT (1997)
- Casualty (TV series)Casualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(1997-1998) - London's BurningLondon's BurningLondon's Burning was a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.It was broadcast between 1986 and...
LWT (1999) - Reach For The Moon (three episodes) LWT (2000)
- EastEndersEastEndersEastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
:Dot's Story BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(2003)
Filmography
- Caprice (1988)
- UnrelatedUnrelatedUnrelated is a 2008 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a fortysomething woman who goes on holiday with a friend and her teenage family to Italy. It was shot on location in Tuscany, Italy near the city of Siena.-Synopsis:...
(2008) - ArchipelagoArchipelago (film)Archipelago is a 2010 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a family holiday on Tresco, Isles of Scilly.-Plot:A darkly comic and quietly moving portrayal of a family in emotional crisis...
(2010)