Nicole Volavka

EARLIER WORK

‘Survivor’ (15mins short, 35mm, 2007)

This 15min drama is about a traumatised Rwandan genocide survivor living in London, who finds a friend in a man going through similar experiences. Stars Shaun Parkes (Human Traffic, The Mummy Returns) and Cyril Nri (The Bill).

*Screened at the Pan-African Film Festival, Los Angeles, East-End Film Festival, London (nominated for Audience Award), Brighton Film Festival, Exodus Refugee Film Festival, Exposures Film Festival, the International Community Festival, Lodz Mediaschool and the Molodist Film Festival, Kiev.

*Selected by the British Council for representation.

*Winner BEST SCRIPT and BEST ACTOR at the BFM Film Festival, London 2008. The script is being developed into a feature with the BBC Writer’s Room.

‘After Everything’ (4mins short drama, 16mm, 2006)

Screened at the National Gallery summer 2006.

'Facing the past' (7 mins doc, DV, 2006)

A 25-year old Rwandan comes to terms with his parents death in the 1994 genocide as he exhumes their bones 12 years later, to give them a proper burial service for the first time.

'Our Future Lost' (7 mins doc, DV, 2006)

Docs in remembrance of the children who died in Rwanda's genocide and the orphans who survived. Shot on Sony PD150. For the Aegis Trust in Rwanda.

‘A Girl’s Guide To Modern Dating’ (3m30s, 16mm film, 2005)

Screened at Phoenix Shorts Festival, Shallow Shorts and featured in the Best of UK Film at Edinburgh Film Festival 2005.