Norman Hull
2021Norman 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 BAFTA nominations and his feature documentary AIRPLANESKI! won the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco Film Festival.
The Thieving Headmistress
Norman Hull
Pauline Quirke, Denis Lawson
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
The Girl Who Became Three Boys
Norman Hull
Catherine Forrester
21-year-old Gemma Barker was sentenced to 30 months in prison for fraud and sexual assault. Over the course of several months, Gemma invented and impersonated three different boys, 'Aaron', 'Luke' and 'Connor' and under these three separate guises went on to seduce two teenage girls.
The Girl Who Became Three Boys
