Norman Hull

Directing

Norman Hull

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Norman Hull is an award winning, highly regarded film director with a critically praised catalogue of pioneering films. He’s a graduate of the National Film and Television School and has directed films for television and cinema. Norman launched his own production company, AVP Films, with the short drama OUT OF TOWN, nominated for Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival. He then co-wrote and directed the feature film LADDER OF SWORDS, which was released to critical acclaim and played at film festivals around the world. Since then Norman has created an impressive body of work in television, making films for Channel 4, Five, ITV, and the BBC. He has two nominations for the Grierson Awards, three BAF…

Known for

Behind the camera

Monsters, Maniacs and Moore poster
NR

1987 documentary featuring comic book writer Alan Moore.

Monsters, Maniacs and Moore

1987

Out of Town poster
8.0

A man walking on a country road gets his foot stuck in a hole. But why will nobody stop to help?

Out of Town

1988

This Is Rockbitch poster
NR

Rock Bitch is a group of female musicians who live in a sex commune. The girls see themselves as striking a blow for women everywhere, and they are doing it through the medium of rock music.

This Is Rockbitch

2003

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NR

Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, who created fake paintings, antiques and sculptures to dupe the art world.

The Antiques Rogue Show

2009

No artwork available
NR

Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, who created fake paintings, antiques and sculptures to dupe the art world.

The Antiques Rogue Show

2009

Reggie Kray poster
NR

The Kray twins' legend is as potent today as it has ever been but Cutting Edge suggests reality is far from the myth

Reggie Kray

2000

Canoe Man poster
4.0

The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.

Canoe Man

2010

TATTOO: A Celebration Of Body Art poster
NR

Documentary based on interviews during the Birmingham Tattoo Convention in the early '90s.

TATTOO: A Celebration Of Body Art

1994

The Thieving Headmistress poster
7.0

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

The Thieving Headmistress

2006

The Thieving Headmistress poster
7.0

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

The Thieving Headmistress

2006

The Kidnap Diaries poster
NR

Dramatised account of film-maker Sean Langan's kidnapping in 2008 while on a quest to become the first western journalist to film the Taliban training camps.

The Kidnap Diaries

2012

The Girl Who Became Three Boys poster
6.0

Over the course of several months, 21-year-old Gemma Barker invented and impersonated three different boys, 'Aaron', 'Luke', and 'Connor', and under these three separate guises went on to seduce two teenage girls. Gemma was sentenced to 30 months in prison for fraud and sexual assault.

The Girl Who Became Three Boys

2012

The Girl Who Became Three Boys poster
6.0

Over the course of several months, 21-year-old Gemma Barker invented and impersonated three different boys, 'Aaron', 'Luke', and 'Connor', and under these three separate guises went on to seduce two teenage girls. Gemma was sentenced to 30 months in prison for fraud and sexual assault.

The Girl Who Became Three Boys

2012

Ladder of Swords poster
3.7

An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus

Ladder of Swords

1990

Bigfoot Monster Mystery poster
7.0

Wildlife cameraman John Waters travels to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in search of the elusive cryptozoological specimen known as Bigfoot.

Bigfoot Monster Mystery

1997