Hattie Dalton is the British Academy Award winning director of the best short film in 2005, The Banker, starring Michael Sheen. The film was an international success and gained recognition in more than 50 film festivals worldwide.

Hattie began work in Australia and Papua New Guinea as a production assistant, eventually training as an assistant editor and learning her craft on movies including Matthew Vaughan’s Layer Cake, Damien O’Donnell’s Heartlands and Stephen Woolley’s directorial debut Stoned. Prior to The Banker, she won acclaim for her short films Sick and Sticky Date. She also co-wrote and directed the animated short Internal Turmoil of the Plastic Kind, which was selected for the High Falls Festival in New York and screened on the BBC’s Homegrown Hollywood. In 2006 she was selected to work alongside Sir Richard Eyre on the Academy Award nominated Notes on a Scandal, as part of a mentor scheme.

Her recent work has included two documentary film projects for Greenpeace, as well as several television commercials, and a short written by Mark Burton and executive produced by BBC Films called One of Those Days.

She wrote a feature script commissioned by the UK Film Council - Lamington - which is now in development with Screen Australia. She is attached to direct a feature film, a comedy called Little Red Car, written by James Bond writing team Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Casino Royale). As well as another feature, an emotional comedy, called Barafundle Bay, written by exciting new writer Vaughan Sivell.