Vanessa is a documentary filmmaker, specialising in immersive character-led stories. 

She has learned the craft of observational filming working for the British television industry over the last 20 years.  Vanessa has directed and produced documentaries for all major streamers and broadcasters, including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Discovery, MTV, National Geographic, VICE, Netflix, STV (Sweden) and Ant1 (Greece).  Her expertise also extends to corporate films and advertising.  She has directed campaign documentaries for UNICEF and the Rotary Foundation, produced TV commercials for Nokia, Wella and Novartis as well as branded content for DuPont and Philip Morris.

Vanessa has extensive international filming experience. Her projects have taken her to remote, and so-called ‘hostile environments’ around the globe.   She has filmed  gang members inside prison in El Salvador, gained access to members of drug Cartels in Mexico and Colombia; filmed children scavenging food on Cambodia’s biggest landfill, directed a Virtual Reality film about the fight against polio in rural Kenya as well as produced a biopic on the fall of Hollywood icon Bill Cosby.

With a background in social Anthropology,  Vanessa is driven by a boundless curiosity about people and cultures.  She is highly efficient at being parachuted into a foreign world and mapping out the story.  She speaks French, Spanish, and Greek fluently.  While she enjoys filming her own material; she is equally comfortable collaborating with bigger crews and directing multiple cameras.

Currently, Vanessa is working on a feature length project as well as developing a series on European music.