Naomi Waring

Naomi Waring is a writer-director whose latest short film Milk was executive produced by Sienna Miller and supported by Uncertain Kingdom’s Belief Fund and will be presented at the UK Parliament in 2025 to raise awareness around infant food poverty.

She is currently developing her debut feature Drifters, exploring young fatherhood and grief in post-industrial Britain. The project was selected for development at the prestigious Less is More (LIM) programme and was also shortlisted for the Torino Script Lab.

Rooted in working-class communities, Naomi’s work focuses on youth culture, care systems, masculinity, and the female perspective, often told through a poetic lens of social realism.

A graduate of the London Film School, Naomi’s graduation film won Best Short and screened at multiple BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying festivals. In 2019, she was selected for Béla Tarr’s directing workshop, where she made Ascend, later screened at Locarno Film Festival as part of the anthology Under the God.

She began her career in theatre and was part of the Royal Court’s invite-only Young Writers’ Programme, with her first play staged at London’s Battersea Arts Centre (BAC). Her first film, Little Ones, an autobiographical documentary, was supported by Film London and the Kevin Spacey Foundation and screened internationally.

She was also commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland and Screen NI to direct Ode, which screened on BBC Arts and BBC iPlayer, and played at international festivals including Aesthetica, Dublin, Uppsala, and Underwire.

Naomi has shadowed  Alex Winkler on the HETV series Mary & George,and most recently Ian Bevitt on Emmerdale. 

Her films have screened at BBC iPlayer, Locarno, Galway, Aesthetica, Dublin, Cork, Manchester, Belfast, Kerry, Underwire, Richard Harris, and more. Awards include a Shiny Award, Best International Short at Offline, and a finalist placement at the European Cinematography Awards.