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Faye Gilbert

Born August 1, 1979 · Croydon, Surrey, England, UK (age 47)

Faye is a writer / director of broadcast drama and film and a self-shooting producer / director of documentaries. She’s currently directing all four episodes of THE TOWER Series 2 for Mammoth Screen and ITV. Faye was also recently lead director of ITV drama series THE BAY (Tall Story Pictures) and has just completed a Microwave commissioned feature film ZERO (BBC Films / BFI / Film London) which s…

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The Line

The Line · 2014

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A teenage girl and a young boy run for their lives to cross 'The Line', but are they running away from danger or towards it?

Zero

MovieScience FictionDrama

Set in a dystopian future, all adults have fled to the mainland. Two sisters will battle for survival and fight to find a safe haven.

Vigil

SeriesDramaCrime

The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.

The Tower

The Tower · 2021

SeriesDramaCrime

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

The Bay

The Bay · 2019

SeriesDramaCrime

Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.

Maigret

Maigret · 2025

SeriesMysteryCrime

Jules Maigret is a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants

Coming Up

Coming Up · 2003

Coming Up is a British Channel 4 television series of films made for television by new directors and writers. The first series was in 2006, and each year's series comprises seven or eight films. Series 6 was shown from July to September 2011. A reviewer in The Independent wrote: "Thank goodness for Coming Up ... it's a genuinely interesting display of possibilities".

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The Line

The Line · 2014

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A teenage girl and a young boy run for their lives to cross 'The Line', but are they running away from danger or towards it?

Director

Zero

MovieScience FictionDrama

Set in a dystopian future, all adults have fled to the mainland. Two sisters will battle for survival and fight to find a safe haven.

Director

Vigil

SeriesDramaCrime

The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.

Director

The Tower

The Tower · 2021

SeriesDramaCrime

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

Director

The Bay

The Bay · 2019

SeriesDramaCrime

Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.

Director

Maigret

Maigret · 2025

SeriesMysteryCrime

Jules Maigret is a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants

Director

Coming Up

Coming Up · 2003

Coming Up is a British Channel 4 television series of films made for television by new directors and writers. The first series was in 2006, and each year's series comprises seven or eight films. Series 6 was shown from July to September 2011. A reviewer in The Independent wrote: "Thank goodness for Coming Up ... it's a genuinely interesting display of possibilities".

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