From Pompano Beach lifeguard to NatGeo filmmaker — Perrin James of Last Breath Film has filmed the first ever freediver interaction with Narwhals, survived the Amazon and the Arctic, and built Project Hiu one dive at a time.

Natacha Horn began as a journalist. Then came digital animation, a passion for directing, and SWING — an abstract short film about everyday abuse that won Best Newcomer Director at the London Independent Film Festival on its first outing. In 2026 she made something more personal still: an anti-documentary portrait of Tanita Tikaram, her wife and collaborator, delivering in her own words a raw account of life as a brown, queer woman in the UK.

She went to Indonesia to expose a shark fishing market. She went back to offer those men an alternative. Madison Stewart — aka Shark Girl — on Project Hiu, Valerie Taylor, and refusing to lose her ocean home. 🦈

I met Stella Scott in Cambodia — on location, in action, completely in her element. Central Saint Martins. BBC Film. The Spice World Tour. She centres emotional realism in everything she makes, drawing out performances that feel discovered rather than directed. This is her story.