The Forgotten C
Director: Molly Manning Walker
The pandemic crawls on and Aisha shelters in her flat. Doorstep visits from friends and family mark the passing weeks as Aisha struggles with how to tell them what's happening to her.
The Forgotten C was commissioned specifically in response to the coronavirus pandemic and was produced within government guidelines over the summer of 2020. It premiered online on 24th September 2020 and was watched 7000 times in the first week of release.
Molly Manning Walker
director & co-writer
Molly graduated from NFTS in 2019 with a Cinematography Masters. Her graduation fiction November 1st was BAFTA long-listed and her graduation documentary City of Children was Grierson nominated.
Molly’s cinematography work spans documentary, fiction and advertising, most recently working with Billy Boyd Cape, Stacey Wall and Nicolai Fuglsig. This year she was nominated for a Craft Award in Cinematography for her work on the NHS Nurses advert.
Her director’s debut short is Good Thanks, You? which will screen in the Cannes Semaine De La Critique programme and online with Palm Springs Shortsfest. Molly’s debut feature is in development with Film4.
Jessi Gutch
producer & co-writer
Jessi is a Producer/Director with an MA in Documentary Journalism. Living with incurable ovarian cancer, she is committed to normalising the disease by telling diverse and authentic stories.
Part of the 2019 cohort for IFRC’s Production in Humanitarian Emergencies, she has produced and directed complex global shoots including at a sexual violence clinic in Bangladesh’s poorest slum, with Maasai tribes in Kenya’s savannas, and with ex-detainee asylum seekers in the UK.
Her most recent short documentary A Story in Three Cuts is being entered into the festival circuit now and she has two other longform projects in development.
Lindsey Dryden
executive producer
Lindsey Dryden is an Emmy®-winning producer, director and writer. She produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning Unrest (2017, PBS/Netflix) and Emmy®-winning Trans In America (2018, ACLU/CondéNast), directed Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW), and is currently executive producing Ahead of the Curve (2020, Frameline).
Known for nurturing exciting new LGBTQ+, women and disabled storytelling voices, she centres authenticity, artistry and collaboration in her work. A proud founding member of Queer Producers Network and FWD-Doc (Filmmakers With Disabilities), Lindsey is the 2019 Simon Relph Memorial Bursary recipient, a 2020 BFI Vision Awardee and a fellow of BAFTA/BFI Flare and Guiding Lights.
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