Lois Norman is a British/Australian award-winning independent film maker and writer, whose work focuses on the bravery and diversity of the human condition.

Lois’s  career in theatre, her love of the word and the visual, have found her films screening at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in the UK. Her films have also won many awards at independent and BAFTA qualifying film festivals around the world.

Primarily, using the ‘Female’ word and image as a lens, Lois explores and questions the truth of who we are and the strength it takes to be all of who we can dare to be.

Lois Norman is a British/Australian award-winning independent film maker and writer, whose work focuses on the bravery and diversity of the human condition.

Lois’s  career in theatre, her love of the word and the visual, have found her films screening at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in the UK. Her films have also won many awards at independent and BAFTA qualifying film festivals around the world.

Primarily, using the ‘Female’ word and image as a lens, Lois explores and questions the truth of who we are and the strength it takes to be all of who we can dare to be.

Brighton Rocks

Lois is thrilled announce that she has been invited to be a Film Programmer for Brighton Rocks International Film Festival AND…. She has created a new category 2026:

45RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) – For Women Rocking 45 & Over.

She is inviting short films of any genre that has women*, or a woman, who is 45 or over, as its subject.

So, if you are a Boomer who never got to Boom, a GenX who feels excluded or anyone in between: please submit via Film Freeway!

Your revolution can be quiet and internal that elevates, or a bang on out loud riot of change. So, get that vinyl revolving and let’s see how many revolutions per minute we can create!

 

*All Women and gender nonconforming.