Essex Girls
Director: Yero Timi-Biu
Producers: Angela Moneke, Simon Hatton
UK 2023, 15 min.
After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.
ESSEX GIRLS was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and is also the winner of Best Narrative Short at both the London Film Festival and the Seattle Film Festival.
Yero Timi-Biu is an award-winning writer-director who recently directed the ITV drama Three Little
Birds and was second unit director on BBC/Amazon thriller Chloe. Yero has also written on shows for Sky and Netflix and has original shows and adaptations in development with studios internationally.
Writer: Busayo Ige
Principal cast: Busayo Ige, Maise Smith, Corinna Brown