Awardees announced for the fourth round of the Miles Ketley Memorial Fund

Adura Onashile is a Glasgow-based artist whose work spans film and theatre, known for her deeply visual and emotionally rich storytelling. Born in London to Nigerian parents and raised between the UK and Nigeria, she began her artistic journey in physical theatre, acting and dance before moving into writing and directing. Her debut feature film, Girl (2023), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, won the Fiction Award at the BlackStar Film Festival, and was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Best Director and Best Film. She was also named one of Screen Daily’s “Stars of Tomorrow.” Prior to her feature debut, Onashile made a significant mark with her short film Expensive Shit, adapted from her award-winning stage play. The film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2020 and was shortlisted for a BAFTA in 2021. More recently, she wrote and directed Night Terror, a thriller short for Amazon Prime and the National Film and Television School, which premiered at the 2025 Rhode Island International Film Festival. She is currently developing her second feature film alongside new projects across theatre and television.

Ali Catterall is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose writing has been featured in The Guardian, Time Out and Big Issue, among many others. In 2001 he co-authored Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties and in 2023, his co-directed debut feature SCALA!!! was released by the BFI to critical acclaim and nominated by the UK Critics Circle for Documentary of the Year. He is currently working on a memoir about his bizarre childhood.

Chloe Abrahams is a Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker. She investigates the therapeutic potential of the confessional, culminating in visceral work spanning moving image, sound, writing and performance. The Taste of Mango, Chloe’s debut non-fiction feature, made the BAFTA longlist for Outstanding British Debut and won the British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Documentary and the Audience Award at the BFI London Film Festival. Chloe is currently writing her first narrative feature, Before the Echo Makes a Sound, set in her family's Tamil community in Kandy, Sri Lanka. In addition to writing and directing, Chloe is also an editor. Her feature documentary editing credits include: Editor – The Taste of Mango, Editor – The In Between by Robie Flores (SXSW 2024), Additional Editor – Shaken by Asher Levinthal (DocNYC 2023), Assistant Editor – A Still Small Voice by Luke Lorenzen (Sundance 2023) and Been Here, Stay Here by David Usui (IDFA 2024). Chloe has a Master’s in Moving Image from the Royal College of Art where she was nominated for the HIGH Prize for Excellence. In 2020 she was awarded the John Brabourne Award and has three times been shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2018, 2019, 2022). She had her first solo exhibition at OVADA (2014), and has since been selected for exhibitions worldwide, including The London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery 2022. Previously, Chloe worked as Marketing Coordinator for documentary distributor Dogwoof.

Chloe White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer and director of Whalebone Films. Her films are intimate, considered portraits, focusing mainly on the female experience. Her directorial debut, feature documentary 1001 Days premiered at IDFA and Sheffield DocFest. She also produced The Stimming Pool which was listed in the top 25 films of 2025 by The Guardian. Chloe lectures in documentary film at University College London and the London College of Communications and lives in Hastings.

Dionne Edwards is an award-winning writer and director working in film and television. A Sundance alum and Screen International Star of Tomorrow, her work has screened internationally, including at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the BFI London Film Festival (LFF), and on platforms such as Cine+, Canal+, HBO, Netflix and Disney+. Her debut feature Pretty Red Dress (BFI/BBC Film) premiered at BFI LFF to widespread acclaim and multiple award nominations, following her nine-time award-winning breakout short, We Love Moses. She has feature projects in development with BBC Film and Film4. She has also directed episodes of A Thousand Blows S2 (Hulu/Disney+), Everything Now (Netflix) and the star-studded Audible Original adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.

Eno Enefiok is a self-taught, award-winning filmmaker with a decade of front-line production experience. A natural collaborator and multi-hyphenate, she has worked as a 1st Assistant Director and Creative Producer across features, shorts, TVCs, music promos, branded content, and documentaries, while teaching herself editing, camera operation, and photography along the way. Her directorial narrative debut, the stop-motion short Hope is Lost – five years in the making and built almost entirely from recycled materials – premiered at the 69th BFI London Film Festival where it was also nominated for Best Short. Hope is Lost won the Crédit Mutuel Anjou Audience Award at Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers 2026 and will have its US premiere at the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival in April 2026. Eno is currently developing her debut documentary feature, in which a chance discovery of two Mini DV tapes belonging to an unknown family sends her on a five-year mission to return the footage to its rightful owners. What begins as a detective story becomes something far more personal, a meditation on memory, grief, and the childhood records she never had.

Ishwari Bhalerao is an artist and facilitator working in South-East London. She works with film, sound and print to explore and imagine liberated health infrastructures, interdependencies, imaginations and systems of care and resistance held within the ecologies she finds herself in. She is the co-founder of Kneed and currently works at Arts Network, an arts and mental health organisation.

John Ogunmuyiwa is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer. His work draws upon a constant questioning of what it means to be normal. Using daily observations as a base, he tends to bring a tinge of surrealism into his work; all with the aim of telling untold stories from a different perspective.

Leonie Rousham is an artist-filmmaker and archivist. She works across film, installation, sound, printmaking, and media distribution. With Ishwari Bhalerao, she’s the co-founder of collaborative practice Kneed, which is centred in building systems of care, support and resistance where external pressures are causing these to be exhausted or lacking. She is Assistant Director and Impact Producer of the documentary Power Station, a ‘show-and-do’ project and feature documentary building community-organised energy commons in North London. She is also a tenants union organiser, a Civic Futures Fellow, and co-organiser of alternative education project Antiuniversity Now. Her work has shown at New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, Open City Docs, Humber Gallery, B-side Gallery and the Independent Cinema Office.

Lorine Plagnol founded Sungazer in 2018, producing her first short with BBC in 2020. Sungazer aims to support talents from historically underrepresented groups – both on and off screen – believing in the power of storytelling to create change. Lorine is a BFI Insight Vision Awardee, was longlisted for a BIFA as a Breakthrough Producer and is BIFA Springboard alumni. Her first feature documentary Dalton’s Dream was acquired by Storyville and her latest short, Area Boy, premiered at the Venice Biennale and earned an Honourable Mention at BFI LFF and a Best Live-Action Short Film Award at SBIFF. Lorine is also evolving in the TV space, having produced the hybrid miniseries Life in Love for ITV. Sungazer is a recipient of the BBC Small Indie Fund and is currently developing a slate of first features with exciting new international talents supported by BFI, BBC and Film4.

May Kindred-Boothby is a director, writer and animator based in Bristol, UK. She worked as a freelance animator for eight years before doing the Masters in Animation at the RCA in 2024. While there she completed her first directorial short The Eating of an Orange, which has won her numerous awards including Best Animation Direction at Sundance Film Festival 2025 and Best Short Film at SIFF 2025. Her work uses hand-drawn techniques and focuses on stories that challenge norms through delicious and unsettling surrealism.

Mykea Fairweather Perry is a writer-director from south-east London. He graduated from the National Film and Television School in March 2025, specialising in directing fiction, where he wrote and directed several short films including his graduation film, Weekend One, which has been long listed for a Student BAFTA. His previous shorts have screened at Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals worldwide. In 2022, Mykea’s short film Sharing earned him a Sundance Ignite Fellowship, and later with support of the Sundance Institute, he went on to write and direct Packing Away starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett.  Mykea is now developing his debut feature film.

Rosanna Lee is an artist and filmmaker from Essex. Rosanna's first short film, Parallel, was funded by Arts Council England and screened in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival. It was also exhibited at Focal Point Gallery in Southend, the British Library's ‘Chinese and British' exhibition, REDEYE's presentation as part of South Parade at Feria in Marseille and at Central St Martins' 'Apparitions’ festival curated by Isaac Leung. Rosanna was a finalist in Netflix's Documentary Talent Fund competition and went on to create a short documentary, Heart of the Lion, filmed in London and Hong Kong, which will be released this year. In her art practice, Rosanna is a participant in Conditions, an alternative art programme based in Croydon, and is developing new sculptural and moving image artwork under the mentorship of artist Alice Channer. Rosanna's artwork has previously been selected for Royal Scottish Academy: New Contemporaries and New Scottish Artists at DRAF, London and her art writing won second prize in the ArtAsiaPacific Young Writers Contest. Rosanna is currently working on a short creative documentary about an artist in Glasgow as well as developing a feature film script.