Louise Osmond
Osmond graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in modern history. Before she became a filmmaker, Osmond worked as a journalist and editor in Brussels, Paris, Rome and Africa. During this time, she was working in the news journalism graduate trainee for the UK network ITN.
Louise Osmond is a British documentary filmmaker.
Some of Osmond's film titles include: Deep Water (2006), Blitz: London`s Firestorm (2005), The Beckoning Silence (2007), McQueen and I (2011), Richard III: The King in the Car Park (2013), and Dark Horse (2015).[1] Osmond most well known recent films include Dark Horse (2015) and Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016).
Dark Horse is the true story of a group of friends from a British working men's club who decide to breed a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners - for whom he's become a source of inspiration and hope - he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the race track for a heart-stopping comeback.
Osmond has won the International Emmy Award for Documentary and had been nominated for the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form and the British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual for her work.[2]
References
- Toronto International Film Festival. "TIFF.net - Dark Horse". TIFF. Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
- https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/496073/Louise-Osmond/filmography