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Freelance Writer, Film Critic, and Broadcaster.

Perpetually available for hire.

I am a regular at Little White Lies, Sight and Sound, Indiewire, The A.V. Club, Radio 4’s Front Row, the BBC World Service's The Arts Hour, and have appeared in print for The Guardian, Curzon, The Independent, Frieze, SFX, BBC Culture, BAFTA, and many more. I am also the host of Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast and co-host The Picturehouse Podcast.

I’ve moderated Q&As and given introductions for the BFI , The Tate and Curzon, appeared on BBC2, many thousands of podcasts, Sky Arts and (most importantly) Lebron James’s Instagram.

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I grew up in Khartoum, moved to Brighton as a teenager, and currently live in London with my husband, two children, a thriving sourdough starter, and a prized blu-ray of Ganja & Hess. I have started working on a book and now have deep wells of sympathy for Jack Torrance.

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