Nationality British Name Anya Camilleri Role Film director | Years active 1990–present Agent Elizabeth Dench Movies Incubus, Perfect | |
Notable work NY-LONTwo Golden BallsIncubusPerfect Similar People Akemnji Ndifornyen, Christian Brassington, Mihai Stanescu, Sandu Mihai Gruia, Monica Birladeanu | ||
Occupation Director, screenwriter | ||
Anya Joan Camilleri is a British film and television director and screenwriter of Maltese descent.
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Television
After graduating from the University of Reading with a Film and Theatre degree, Camilleri's first industry job was at Working Title Films, where she produced and directed commercials and pop videos, teaming up with Derek Jarman, Mike Newell, amongst others. She then directed a short film The Refund for BBC Television and a music documentary That Was Then, This Is Now (1990) for the BBC Two's DEF II. In 1991, she directed a drama, Eye Contact for Channel 4, starring Jason Isaacs..and in 1992/3, two episodes of Boon and four episodes of The Bill for ITV.
In 1994, Camilleri directed Two Golden Balls, a BBC television movie starting Kim Cattrall and Claire Skinner. Camilleri's other UK television director credits include co-creating, co-writing and lead directing 2 series of Liverpool 1 (1998-1999) which the ITV schedule for 2 years running also two episodes of Moving On (2001).
Camilleri is also the co-creator, co-writer, and a director of the television drama series NY-LON. The title refers to New York City and London conceived as "a single city separated by an ocean". Starring Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyet. The series ran on Britain's Channel 4 from August through October 2009, and was later shown in the United States on BBC America.
Film
Camilleri directed the 2006 horror film Incubus, starring Tara Reid. In 2014, she was attached to direct Satisfaction starring Sharon Stone, as a "cougar" dating a young gigalo, played by Chris Evans but the project has not yet filmed. Camilleri's thriller Perfect was shown at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in 2013.
Personal life
Camilleri is married to Simon Burke, her co-creator and co-writer for NY-LON, and screenwriter of Camilleri's earlier project Satisfaction. NY-LON is in part based on their relationship. They have two children and a production company, Pandemonium Films Limited. They live in Rome, Italy. Anya Camilleri is the daughter of the late Maltese composer Charles Camilleri.