Eva Midgley

Writer-director Eva Midgley began her professional career at advertising giant DDB Needham Asia.  After moving back to Europe, Eva worked as Fashion Director at Esquire and Algemeen Dagblad where she collaborated with an international roster of renowned fashion and portrait photographers. 

After helping to facilitate the creativity of other artists, Eva decided it was time to support her own. Her first short film, Honey and Bunny, was a response to the male-dominated view on female identity. She wrote and directed eight art films for high-end British fashion brand Coco de Mer which screened at festivals worldwide and earned numerous awards, winning the Destricted Film Competition.

  Eva’s short film, Peep Show, was part of the Official Selection at LA Shorts Fest and Hollyshorts. Her feature screenplay The Magic of Valerie B won Finalist Award at the Atlanta Festival, while Frida does Flamenco achieved quarter- and semi-finalist status in Austin, and several other festivals. Her most recent short film, The Birthday Cut, a very personal intense family drama opened the Toronto International Shorts Festival, was shortlisted at LA Shorts and won Best Drama at New York Shorts International Film Festival. The Voice of a Woman screenings at Cannes and New York featured her commercial work, and she has judged the AICP Next Awards and Shiny Awards. In 2022, she was a participant in the Alliance of Women Director’s Directing the Actor Lab. 

Eva has recently finished a web pilot, The Infected, and is currently developing her feature film Frida Does Flamenco, as well as shooting a documentary. 

While writing, producing and directing her original projects, Eva works worldwide, directing commercials for brands like Vicks, Mac Cosmetics, L'Oréal, Dove, and Tresemmé. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her beer-brewing husband, she is a proud mama to three wonderful sons, and spends all her free time dancing flamenco. 

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