Ruth Paxton

Director

September 10, 1984 (41 years)

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Biography

Ruth is a Scottish filmmaker whose award-winning shorts have been exhibited at numerous international events and prominent film festivals. She won Best Woman Director at the 12th London Short Film Festival for her film Pulse and was also nominated as one of Canongate’s 40 Scottish Storytellers of The Future. In 2019, Screen Daily featured her as one of ‘Six emerging Scotland-based Directors you need to know.’ The Scotsman selected her as ‘One to Watch in 2022’. In 2023, Ruth delivered her first…

Filmography

7.5

Shetland

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.

4.3

A Banquet

Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.

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