Director bio.
Clare Sturges is an award-winning screen director whose films convey powerful human stories through cinematic visuals, evocative detail and a close attention to film craft. Nature and loss are important motifs in her work. She has recently directed and produced an Amazon Original feature documentary, tx May 2025.
Clare was the first woman to win the BAFTA Cymru Breakthrough Award – in 2015 – for Sexwork, Love & Mr Right, which she produced and directed. She won a second BAFTA Cymru Award in 2016 for My Brief Eternity, which was also longlisted for BIFA and EE BAFTA short film awards.
Clare’s shortform drama The Arborist was nominated for a BAFTA Cymru Award in 2020. She was nominated for the BAFTA Cymru Director Factual Award in 2023 for Apple TV+ / BBC documentary Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, The Horse and Me.
She has recently directed episodes of BBC continuing drama and shortform commissions for clients, including Google and Intel. She is an Associate Member of BAFTA and a member of Directors UK. Her films have screened at BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying festivals around the world.
Recent credits.
Scripted
DIRECTOR
BBC Doctors 6 x 30”
BBC Studios for BBC One
TX October 2023 / February 2024
Available on BBC iPlayer
WRITER | DIRECTOR
The Arborist 14”
British Film Institute / Ffilm Cymru Wales for BBC Two
TX September 2020
Available on BBC iPlayer
Unscripted
DIRECTOR | PRODUCER
Surviving The Tunisia Beach Attack 90”
Yeti TV for Amazon Prime UK
TX May 2025
DIRECTOR
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, The Horse and Me 60”
Salon Pictures for Apple TV+ / BBC Two
TX Christmas Eve 2022
Creative
Google | Intel | PwC | NHS Scotland | We The Curious | Mencap | Age Cymru