Aaron Dunleavy
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Bio
Aaron Dunleavy is a filmmaker from Blackburn and a graduate of University of the Arts London whose shorts centre on working-class youth, using street casting, non-professional young actors and unscripted performances. His student short Throw Me to the Dogs, made with Joseph Ollman, was fully improvised and praised by Danny Boyle. It won 10 festival awards and was distributed by MUBI. His short Landsharks premiered at Giffoni and won Best UK Short at Raindance, and his BBC Three documentary Alfie The Odd-Job Boy of Clitheroe passed 18 million views online. Sundance chose him for its Ignite Fellowship in 2018.
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