Rosie Potts makes emotionally compelling films that aim to surprise, move and leave space for the audience’s own interpretations. Her work explores how we change through relationships, care, intergenerational connections, illness and sexuality.

Her award winning, BIFA Qualifying first short film Olive has been praised for its depiction of an 80 year old woman with a vivid emotional life. Her second short The Catch Up, is in Post Production.

Prior to filmmaking, Rosie spent 7 years working in NHS mental health services, and as a trained Clinical Psychologist she has worked in services using psychodynamic approaches. She is interested in how film, like psychotherapy, can represent what’s unconscious, opening up new possibilities for how we think, feel and relate to each other.

Rosie likes working closely with collaborators to make fiction based on real life experiences. Her directing practice and how she works with actors is influenced by 10 years making theatre as part of the award winning queer performance collective “Pecs Drag Kings” (Winner, Off West End Theatre Award).

Rosie is currently developing films across short and long form.