Gail Hackston

Gail Hackston is a writer/director based in London. Starting her career behind the camera in the late 1990s in Scotland, where she worked on a number of shorts on the popular Tartan Shorts and First Reel strands.

Moving to London, she spent 15 years in Marketing and Communications for various media companies before coming back to filmmaking in recent years.

In 2012, Gail produced Crowdsourced feature film 50 Kisses with the London Screenwriters Festival and short film “Spare Change”.

Gail is directing for the first time with short film, Cancer Hair. Shot in October 2013 and making a festival run in 2014, Gail has another two short film projects in development for 2015 as well as feature film, Project O.