Bille Eltringham

Directing

Bille Eltringham

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Caroline Bille Eltringham was born in 1967. Prior to entering the world of film she worked as a boatswain of tall- masted ships and as a theatrical dresser. She attended Bournemouth film school along with Simon Beaufoy - who would later take an Academy Award for 'Slumdog Millionaire' and Mark Blaney, the trio forming Footprint Films on graduation. After producing short films for the BBC Bille went on to make 'Kid in the Corner' for Channel 4. In 2000 she and Mark Blaney and Kate Ogden formed This is Not a Company, in keeping with the title of their 2002 film 'This is Not a Love Song', the first film to be streamed simultaneously on the Internet with its cinema release.

Known for

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution poster
6.7

Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

2007

The Darkest Light poster
5.0

Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.

The Darkest Light

2000

No artwork available
NR

On a family outing, seven year-old Natalie disappears with the car keys into a sea of flowers, initiating a disturbing confrontation.

Yellow

1996

Linger poster
NR

Five years ago, Donna Marie would never have admitted she had a crush on her best mate, Tammy. Now, married and with kids, she recalls that special day when Tammy and her made off with a stolen mattress.

Linger

1995

No artwork available
6.8

Heaton and Spike are the unlikeliest pair: two loners who have found each other. When Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton decides to stand by him - an act of astonishing, almost foolhardy loyalty. There begins a chase across a vast Northern landscape of moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by the police but by a posse of farmers intent on revenge. No ordinary chase film, This Is Not a Love Song is a love story trapped inside the body of a thriller.

This Is Not a Love Song

2002

Behind the camera

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution poster
6.7

Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

2007

The Darkest Light poster
5.0

Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.

The Darkest Light

2000

No artwork available
NR

On a family outing, seven year-old Natalie disappears with the car keys into a sea of flowers, initiating a disturbing confrontation.

Yellow

1996

No artwork available
NR

On a family outing, seven year-old Natalie disappears with the car keys into a sea of flowers, initiating a disturbing confrontation.

Yellow

1996

Linger poster
NR

Five years ago, Donna Marie would never have admitted she had a crush on her best mate, Tammy. Now, married and with kids, she recalls that special day when Tammy and her made off with a stolen mattress.

Linger

1995

Linger poster
NR

Five years ago, Donna Marie would never have admitted she had a crush on her best mate, Tammy. Now, married and with kids, she recalls that special day when Tammy and her made off with a stolen mattress.

Linger

1995

No artwork available
6.8

Heaton and Spike are the unlikeliest pair: two loners who have found each other. When Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton decides to stand by him - an act of astonishing, almost foolhardy loyalty. There begins a chase across a vast Northern landscape of moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by the police but by a posse of farmers intent on revenge. No ordinary chase film, This Is Not a Love Song is a love story trapped inside the body of a thriller.

This Is Not a Love Song

2002