After studying Anthropology and Archaeology at Oxford University, she and Rachel Millward co-founded the ‘Birds’ Eye View’ film festival showcasing the work by emerging women filmmakers. Following her departure from ‘Bird’s Eye View’, she went on to make the short films 'Human' and 'Blackout', winning a place on the 2004 Berlin Film Festival Talent Camp. In 2004 she wrote and directed the short film ‘Small Worlds’ starring Zoë Wanamaker.