Hannah is documentary filmmaker from London.They graduated from the National Film & Television School (UK), with an MA in Directing Documentary. Over the past few years, they have made documentaries for UK Broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5. They have been screened at numerous festivals globally including Sheffield DocFest, Kendal Mountain Festival, Jerusalem International Film Festival, and UK Jewish Film Festival, and have been nominated for Best Documentary, at the Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2022 for Last Orders.
DIAMOND BRUISES
Short Documentary (4 mins, 2023)
If you can ski in Sheffield, you can ski anywhere. Now returning to nature, Sheffield Ski Village was once the centre of a vibrant community of people who skied and snowboarded in a city without snow. Using evocative archival footage, interviews, and sound design this film will take you back to the world of the Ski Village, while contrasting this with the desolate hillside left today.
Director, Producer, Cinematographer: Hannah Skolnick
Premiere: Sheffield DocFest 2023, In Competition: Kendal Mountain Festival 2023.
LAST ORDERS
Short Documentary (20 mins, 2021)
The Festive is a time capsule. In a pocket of white, working-class London, we watch the day-to-day struggles of a community of drinkers slowly being squeezed out of their area by changes in the makeup of society.
Director, Producer, Cinematographer: Hannah Skolnick
Nominated, Best Documentary, Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2022
A Call from within
Short Documentary (20 mins, 2020)
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Yehudis Fletcher counsels women who are victims of sexual abuse in her own Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. The darkness is offset by the light of her young children, who she is raising as a single mother within the community.
Director, Producer, Cinematographer: Hannah Skolnick
HOW TO RIDE AN ELEVATOR ON SHABBAT
Short Documentary (11mins, 2017)
A glimpse into the life of Nadav, a gay man in Jerusalem conflicted between his Orthodox Jewish beliefs and practice, and his sexual orientation.
Director: Hannah Skolnick, Producer: Salvatore Natale, Cinematographer: Yonothan Meiri Brauer
Jerusalem International Festival 2017, UK Jewish Film Festival 2017