Debbie Croysdale

Freelance
Actor, Director, Filmmaker and Screenwriter

London, England

Member Since:
August 2014

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About Debbie

I BEGAN this journey as a Theatrical Performer, after achieving all Guildhall exams with distinction and LAMDA acting medals. After some particularly heavy touring programmes, I opted for a more secure lifestyle and a chunk of my life was being a PA in Scandinavia oil and gas, so I kinda fell off the Arts Radar a while.

The last four years my craving to be part of visual arts crept back. My brain caught fire with the passion to direct, to be the catalyst betwixt script and actor to give birth to the character. This time around, for being behind the camera, as opposed to being in front. I started with Sundance workshops, and after that London Film School and London Film Academy. I also did some practice in Oslo and Malaga. I have three shorts produced that I wrote and directed and working on a feature now, with a Pro crew. I am a new director, so the pro stuff is obviously not regular, rest of the time I do student/experimental/arthouse l film. I enjoy learning to make my own films, which is why I continuously do "hands on" study. I juxtapose my directing skills, with learning how to use a technical tool in film making.

My favourite periodical is HUCK magazine, because it's not only about Indie Art, but "Indie" everything in life. It bursts with stories about real life Independent minds, not obeying the puerile norms that media and other sources cram down our throats, and leading their lives their way. My favourite motto is Espiritu Libre, Free Spirit. Art should be freely available to all, not just to a select few within closed shop institutions.

Unique traits: Travel a lot to source individual Indie Groups. Just seen great self expression group perform in Loire Valley France. Mainly dance, but also own mimes etc. I'm mainly into film, but enjoy all things Indie.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 7"

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Long

Hair color:
Blonde

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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EQUITY RELEASE Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror An estranged couple in mid life crisis give their relationship a boost by arranging equity release on their country mansion only to find their dream holiday takes place in the academy of hell.
THE TOOTH FAIRY Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A sophisticated serial killer taunts forensics by replacing victims teeth with perfect implants, leaving a cross country trail of skulls with no dental records, as the FBI hold meetings about the resourceful and maverick nemesis.
SPEED DATE Horror A serial speed dater mugs the host after an event, stealing her briefcase and those who rejected him on the paperwork get a home visit to show them what they "nearly" missed.
THE GARDENER Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A wealthy loner develops a new garden fertilizer for his award winning roses, and a senior detective who is solving a string of disappearances, receives a bouquet from an anonymous admirer.
HOT MANGO Budget: $0 - $100K | Crime ⋄ Comedy Criminals rob a Georgian house to find the residents are eccentric hippies who shun modern society with no resources for online banking so hatch a plan to obtain funds via a real time live performance.
BLACK SANGRIA Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A rich hedonist playing out his fantasies in an exclusive club, receives an envelope containing clues on survival, discovering he is the toy to an unseen puppeteer within a sinister maze.
BABEL VACATION Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror Nature loving honeymooners find themselves lost in rural Spain and stumble across an eco hub of polythene greenhouses, approaching the dwellers to purchase fresh fruit, they become enslaved for a ritualistic tradition in a secret society.
MOJITO LOBO Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror An underworld vixen and her hit man lover kidnap a wealthy tourist for financial gain but the captive changes their end game, equalising the chances of life or death for everyone.
Red Jive Film-noir A Bloomsbury banker meets a candy floss seller in the penny arcade Brighton and decides to cultivate her, but he becomes the student as she places her record in his gramophone.
REHAB RAP Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A celebrity rapper joins an elite rehab to kick drugs but becomes enslaved in a dark cult where addicts begin to disappear and a special needs fruit picker becomes his only ally.
RED HERRING Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A young couple win the chance to solve a murder mystery weekend ran by corporate advertisers for a financial prize only to find themselves in a sinister entrapment and the story is them.
RAGS TO RICHES Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A refined student doctor shares a squat with a dizzy pole dancer after they bonded in rehab but one day she suddenly disappears leaving him fighting temptation to use again as he desperately searches for her.
PARADISE YARD PILOT Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller A maverick bohemian doctor practices unconventional therapy on patients suffering with varying addictions as she struggles against financial closure of her unit unaware a serial killer lurks in her midst.
GLAMPERS Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A group of law graduates enjoy a glamping retreat in the forest but on check out day cannot find the road back out and one of the group is found crucified to a giant oak.
CRAZY ATLANTA WOMEN Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller A bored waitress in a seedy rural diner befriends an enigmatic drifter who causes her to question the meaning of life and they both jump on a Greyhound bus in pursuit of a man with a briefcase.
KISS THE BLARNEY STONE Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Romance Two impoverished friends hatch a plot to leave 80's Ireland and con rich women in London but on the brink of living the dream one falls for his mark dangerously changing the game.
EMPTY CHAIR Budget: $0 - $100K | Other ⋄ Drama A farmer refuses to accept the premature death of his daughter, instead retreating into a world of denial that could ultimately cost his liberty and it seems nothing will save him now except divine intervention.
DILLER KILLER Film-noir A Girl who doesn't like getting her hands dirty, lovingly tends her allotment in 1949 bombed out London, as the city's remaining rich entrepreneurs begin to vanish one by one.
TANGO LOCO Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller A tourist hiker bumps into a dying man who hands her a pendant with a dark puzzle to solve whilst a local heiress battles to save her captive lover from death and both women join forces.
DOWNLOAD Fantasy ⋄ Horror Key players in leading institutions are found dead at their desks, the only similarity is the same avatar in computer files. Detectives are taunted, when the hooded cyclops dwarf, scuttles onto their work screens.