Rachel Tunnard

Editing

Rachel Tunnard

Place of birth

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Known for

Editing

Credits

6 titles

Rachel Tunnard is a writer, director and editor. Her first feature, Adult Life Skills was nominated for six BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards) and won two. It also won the ‘Nora Ephron Prize’ at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ from the Writers Guild, the ‘Accession Award’ for Screenwriting at the East End Film Festival and was nominated for ‘Best Debut Feature Film’ by the London Critics Circle.

Known for

Behind the camera

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget poster
6.9

A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

Military Wives poster
6.5

Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.

Military Wives

2020

Adult Life Skills poster
6.2

Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.

Adult Life Skills

2016

Adult Life Skills poster
6.2

Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.

Adult Life Skills

2016

Emotional Fusebox poster
6.6

Anna lives a hermit's life in her Mum's garden shed, making videos starring her thumbs. She wants to stay there but her Mum has other plans.

Emotional Fusebox

2014

Emotional Fusebox poster
6.6

Anna lives a hermit's life in her Mum's garden shed, making videos starring her thumbs. She wants to stay there but her Mum has other plans.

Emotional Fusebox

2014