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Eloise King
Eloise King is an award-winning filmmaker, whose work, focused on advocacy, activism and youth culture, can be seen across digital and major terrestrial platforms.
Biography
Eloise King is an award-winning filmmaker, focused on telling powerful human-interest stories that foreground marginalized voices. As the previous Global Executive Producer at VICE and i-D, overseeing the brand’s digital channels in the UK and i-D’s globally, Eloise explored fashion, youth cultures, and social justice. Her projects exceed over 200 million views and have crossed digital and major TV platforms, including BBC, Channel 4, ITV, MTV, A&E, and Al Jazeera English. In addition her work has been exhibited at The ICA, Tate Britain, V&A, and MoAD.
Her previous titles, as a director and/or producer, include: The Gatherings (Grierson nominated), Kids Behind Bars (ITV/ A&E), Pin and Needles (Broadcast Award nominated), and Gurls Talk (LOVIE Award). Eloise has directed commercial projects for Louis Vuitton, Nike and Twitter.
She directed Nike Women’s “We’ve Always Done It” commercial, in which a workout morphs into a surreal dance on a rooftop and a group of women fully showcase their body confidence. Eloise was praised for the authentic and naturalistic way that she captured such a diverse cast of powerful, vibrant women, which included a professional dancer, a poet, a professional boxer and a youth organizer/LGBTQ+ activist.
Eloise is is a 2020 Field of Vision fund grantee and an alumna of The Edinburgh International Television Festival’s Ones to Watch talent program, giving television’s best and brightest access to creative debate, networking opportunities, and mentorship. She was selected to be part of the Sheffield Documentary Festival’s Future Producer School. In 2018, Eloise was recognized for ‘Outstanding Achievement’ in Campaign and Creative Equals’ list of future female leaders defining creativity.
She is also deeply invested in giving back to her creative community, having founded Women on Docs in 2015, a UK and LA based screening collective and event network celebrating the contribution of women to documentary film.
Eloise is currently working on her first feature documentary.