Dominic Savage

Director

November 23, 1962 (63 years)

Margate, Kent, England, UK

Biography

Dominic Savage is a British film and television writer, director and actor.

Filmography

5.6

I Am...

Each hour-long film follows a different woman as they experience “moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal”.

7.0

True Love

A five-part series of intertwining, semi-improvised love stories exploring the reality of love in the modern world.

4.5

Dive

Schoolgirl Lindsey Macallum aspires to be an Olympic diver and follows a strict training regime, but this goes out the window when her supportive father leaves home and her mother moves her new boyfriend in. Having trouble coping with her fractured home life, Lindsey sleeps with rebellious classmate Robert Wisley and becomes pregnant. Despite unsupportive parents but with sympathetic siblings, Lindsey and Robert face their futures together.

5.0

Born Equal

Four characters living in one neighbourhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.

5.8

Close to You

A trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself.

5.5

The Escape

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

6.1

Freefall

FREEFALL is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's lives to spiral out of control. With pace, edge and real emotional punch, it gives a unique insight into how the country came so perilously close to the edge.

6.0

Love + Hate

This movie is a contemporary UK vision of an age old story as epitomised by Shakespeare, but with two at odds relationships adding a layer of complication. The situation, a volatile northern English town, typically Bradford, and characters, one Islamic Pakistani family and two prejudiced English families loosely representing the Capulets and the Montagues.

4.5

Out of Control

Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.

9.0

When I Was 12

Newly arrived on a Burnley housing estate is twelve-year-old Chloe, who, with her alcoholic single mother and abusive older brother, has been re-housed for the umpteenth time. When Chloe finds a kindred spirit in Lee, a young boy with a similarly dysfunctional family, she sees an opportunity to escape from her mother and brother.

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