Alice Waddington's directing style is defined by a contemporary approach to the golden era of large-scale-studio genre films in production companies such as Hammer Films or Universal's Creature Features; mixed with current surreal humor and sometimes including musical cinema.
13 Facts About Alice Waddington
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Alice Waddington grew up in the blue-collar neighborhood of San Mames, known for its working-class pride and industrial surroundings pre-gentrification.
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Alice Waddington adopted her stage name at sixteen, while assisting director of photography Quique Lopez.
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In 2014, with the help of Mexican executive producer Yadira Avalos, Alice Waddington took a year off advertising agency work to write and direct a short movie.
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Alice Waddington found sponsors to help her produce her first narrative 11-minute film, Disco Inferno, which received nominations in 63 international film festivals including genre fan favorites such as Palm Springs, Fantasia, Sitges or Fantastic Fest, which first awarded her as Best Director in her category, and second best feature project of the Fantastic Market for her movie Paradise Hills.
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Alice Waddington entered pre-production of her first full-length feature, Paradise Hills in 2017 with Spanish production company Nostromo Pictures.
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Alice Waddington has pointed out in interviews that after Paradise Hills she desires to direct biopics, dark comedies, socially metaphorical fantastic horror about minorities and terror stories that have taken place.
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In June 2019, it was announced that Alice Waddington is developing her second film Scarlet, from a script written by her and Kristen SaBerre.
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In September 2021, Alice Waddington was tapped to direct adaptation of comic book series Dept.
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In October 2022, Alice Waddington premiered her first episode of television, in which she personally cast Alvaro Morte and Mina El-Hammani, co-written with Spanish legacy writer Rocio Martinez Llano.
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Alice Waddington is a proactive demander for progressive social change regarding causes related to female cooperation and sorority within the arts.
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Alice Waddington has often mentioned the need for film studios around the world to hire more women, with an accent on women of color.
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Alice Waddington is fluent in Spanish and English and conversational in Basque, French and Catalan.