DEBBIE ANZALONE
Debbie is a London-based director who currently works on documentaries, docu-dramas and commercials. She has directed work across different genres, from arts to social and cultural issue-based themes.
She completed her Masters at the Royal College of Art in 2000 where she studied photography and film. In 2006, Debbie made a short independent film called Ordinary Magic, which screened at a number of festivals both in the UK and abroad. The film consists of a series of interviews with elderly Londoners talking about what they have been searching for in their lives. The original music for the film was composed by Michael Nyman.
Debbie was commissioned by Channel 4 in 2007/2008 to direct eight three-minute shorts for their 3 Minute Wonder strand. In 2009, she directed a 15-minute documentary on William Forsythe who is widely considered to be one of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary dance in the world. Focus on Forsythe was commissioned by the Tate and Sadler’s Wells and is currently being screened on their online channel.
Debbie then went on to make two films for the latest Home Office anti-knife crime campaign It Doesn’t Have to Happen, with Rainey Kelly RKCR&YR. Debbie was given access to prisons where she conducted a series of interviews with young offenders sentenced for knife-related crimes. One of the films from the campaign, Physical, was a nominee at the 2010 BTAAs and has just received a Bronze Award at the Creative Circle in the Public Service Information category.
Debbie recently made a film for Sky Arts and Deutsche Grammophon on a classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic, which has been broadcast in the UK, Germany and France and released along with Milos's debut CD.