Sheila Nortley

In 2013 Sheila produced feature Sable Fable which went on to win Best Film at the prestigious American Black Film Festival awards in Miami, Florida. In 2016 she won the Woman of the Future award in Arts and Culture for her work in film and was invited to Buckingham Palace. The following year her film Limbo was shot in Norfolk Virginia and selected for various international festivals including Cannes Pan-African Film Festival. 2018 saw her become an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society with her short film Sometimes I Feel was selected for the Oscar qualifying PAFF festival in LA 2020. In November 2020, Sheila secured an unprecedented development deal with the national broadcaster, SKY. Shortly after this announcement she was selected to join the BFI Network x BAFTA Crew 2021. She ended the year working alongside an award-winning young and sundry team, including BAFTA and Emmy award-winner Matthew Barrett and BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Miles Ridgway on 'I Am Mary' Sheila went on to produce the Netflix TV series 'Stay Close' starring Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), James Nesbitt (The Missing), Richard Armitage (The Stranger) and Sarah Parish (Bancroft)