Film London reveal its Lodestars 2025 Winners.
Film London Lodestars is a programme celebrating the freshest, most exciting filmmaker, creative and craftspeople talent. New for 2025, ten Lodestar Category Winners have been selected from a 30-strong list of finalists at a celebratory event at Soho Hotel, London.
With Lodestars known for their inspiration and guidance, the list celebrates those within Film, TV, Animation and Games who shine with outstanding creativity or craftsmanship, tipped to go on to ever greater works in coming years. Selected from a pool of hundreds of people, Lodestars reflects the breadth of talent across London’s screen industries, celebrating a variety of successes from festival circuits and distribution deals to community and environmental impact and gallery residencies. Film London Lodestars spotlights upcoming Londoners making great strides globally, keeping the capital firmly on the creative map.
The Film London Lodestars 2025 Winners are:
- Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume – Animation Category
- Edd Carr – Artist Filmmaker Category
- Georgie Yukiko Donovan – Crew & Industry Category
- Jack King – Director Category
- London International Animation Festival – Exhibitor Category
- Reedah El-Saie – Games Category
- Elise Butt – Head of Department Category
- Rebecca Wolff – Producer Category
- Etienne Joseph – Hackney Archives – Screen Heritage Category
- Helen Simmons – Writer Category
Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive of Film London, said: “We’re delighted to shine a spotlight on Film London’s Lodestars 2025. Selected from a 30-strong list of finalists, the 2025 winners really are ones to watch and we are excited to see what they and the talented cohort of finalists do next. The Film London Lodestars list demonstrates what an exceptionally diverse and fertile source of exciting innovative and distinctive talent London is, and that is one of the primary reasons that we remain a preeminent global centre for creative content production.”
Previous Lodestars Alice Russell (director) and Gannesh Rajah (producer) won two BIFAs in Dec 2023 for If The Streets Were on Fire, Ronan Mackenzie premiered his FLAMIN Fellowship-funded animation Rain, Rain, Go Away in competition at London Short Film Festival 2025 and Gina Lyons (producer) went into production on her Production Finance Market New Talent Strand 22 feature Go Away! to name but a few achievements.
Daniel Battsek, Film London Chair and former Chairman of Film4, said: “Lodestars is a moment in time to celebrate, shine a light on and be wowed by the sheer breadth of talent across London’s screen industries. Whatever part of the industry you work in, the people on the Film London Lodestars list are people you need to know about.”
Film London Lodestars are selected by a jury of industry experts, drawn from across the disciplines of feature film, TV, video games, heritage film, artists moving image, cinema exhibition.
With support from the Mayor of London, the National Lottery through the BFI and Arts Council England, Film London supports talent across London’s screen industries, from new entrants to established creators, with content ranging from narrative shorts to artists’ moving image.
