Holly Hunter Joins Riff Raff's Nursey of Evil Roster

​Riff Raff has welcomed Holly Hunter to its Nursery of Evil roster.

Holly Hunter is a London based writer and director whose work is defined by bold visual worlds, surreal wit and cartoon like energy. Inspired by the makeshift glamour of the New Romantics and driven by equal parts pace and precision, her films are fast, playful and obsessively crafted.

She began her career as an art director at Wieden+Kennedy, working on award-winning campaigns for Nike, TK Maxx, Lurpak, Sainsbury’s and Sprite before moving into directing. Her debut short Banana Boat, selected for funding by Yarns Film Festival from thousands of submissions, won Best Honorary Film at the iconic Prince Charles Cinema. Her follow-up, Crunch, a guerrilla-style short inspired by her misophonia, premiered on It’s Nice That.

A natural creator, Holly has written and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, made stop motion animation, sold her own cartoon artwork and even made BBC News for sketching Sir Richard Branson as a pigeon. Her work has been championed by Girls In Film, Kerrang!, PromoNews, David Reviews.

She has directed award-winning underground music videos for artists that match her taste for the eccentric, and most recently wrote, starred in and directed her own spoof Christmas Number One, shot entirely in her village hall, which returns this December “to keep Mariah on her toes”.

Her distinctive film making is rooted in the belief that if you treat everyone like a character, the world becomes more magical.

Once Holly arrived, she said, "I love what Riff Raff stands for and I can’t wait to bring the fizz and chaos of a shaken can of pop to the squad. It already feels like home, the kind of place you can wander around in your undies and know you belong."