CREATIVE PRODUCER & FILMMAKER · LONDON · EST. BEIRUT
Every persondeserves theirstory told
✦ AND THAT'S THE WHOLE JOB, REALLY
About
DUBAI → BEIRUT → BERLIN → LONDON

I was born in Dubai and grew up in Beirut, where I spent ten years in a city that shaped how I see people and stories. Being international by blood, with roots across different cultures, left me endlessly curious about how people make sense of their lives, somewhere between psychology and anthropology.

My love for storytelling started in Beirut, through theatre. Watching a story hold a room, even briefly change how people saw something, is what first pulled me toward this work.

At sixteen, after the explosion that shook Beirut, I moved to Berlin for two years. It was there I found a different kind of freedom of expression, through music and the community that grew around it. Berlin showed me how much storytelling and identity can shift depending on where, and with whom, you are allowed to be yourself.

At eighteen I moved to London on my own to study filmmaking, alongside politics, art and literature. Today I work as a creative producer and filmmaker, and alongside that, in PR, short form content creation, and at a contemporary art gallery.

WHERE I LEARNED IT
BA Practical Filmmaking & Production, MetFilm Institute London
Foundation in Literature, Politics & Film, Queen Mary University of London
International Baccalaureate, Berlin Brandenburg International School
THE OTHER HATS
PR and short form content creation
Contemporary art gallery, London
Previously: Volonté London, Frances M. Fitness, Cloud 9 Berlin
BY THE NUMBERS
BIFA NOMINATED ×2
13 PROJECTS TO DATE
FEATURE · SHORT · DOCUMENTARY
Current slate
2026 — 2027 / SEVEN PROJECTS
Hunted From Within
FEATURE · PRODUCER · 2026
Four students are trapped in a classroom as a shooter prowls the halls, forced to confront their darkest fears and work together to survive.
▸ IN POST
The Screen
SHORT · PRODUCER · 2026
A 14-year-old is lured into an online encounter that spirals into extortion, forcing a choice between silence, shame and survival.
▸ IN POST
'O' England
SHORT · PRODUCER · 2026 · A. BULLOCK
As the privileged evacuate a dying Earth, a caretaker refuses to leave, forcing a reckoning with the cost of staying behind.
★ CROWDFUNDING · SHOOTS OCTOBER
Beirut Beats
SHORT DOC · DIRECTOR & PRODUCER · 2026
In a city torn by political turmoil, young techno DJs defy adversity to chase electronic music through Beirut's unpredictable nightlife.
▸ PRE-PRODUCTION · TEENAVISION
Borrowed Time
SHORT · PRODUCER · 2027 · C. SOLE
Years after losing him to drugs, a young woman's father returns to her rundown seaside town. She realises his return is on borrowed time.
▸ PRE-PRODUCTION
Fuse
TV PROOF OF CONCEPT · 1ST AD · 2026
▸ IN POST
A story is frequency.
Curiosity is language.
What you feel is more real than what you see.
Every person deserves their story told.
Elsewhere
MARKETING · PR · CONTENT · GALLERY
The work that runs alongside the films. Marketing, PR and content roles that pay for the producing and sharpen it, and a gallery job that keeps me around artists.
2026 — PRESENT
Contemporary art gallery
LONDON
Gallery and exhibitions work alongside producing.
2026 — PRESENT
PR & short form content
FREELANCE · LONDON
Campaign work and short form content for brands and independents.
OCT 2025 — JAN 2026
Basepoint
SALES & MARKETING ASSOCIATE · EE BROADBAND
Sales and marketing for EE Broadband.
DEC 2024 — SEPT 2025
Volonté London
MARKETING & CONTENT CREATOR · FREELANCE
Marketing team member and content creator.
MAY — AUG 2025
Frances M. Fitness
MARKETING STRATEGIST · FREELANCE
Marketing strategy for an independent fitness brand.
2022 — 2023
Cloud 9 Property Management
MARKETING CREATIVE DIRECTOR & EDITOR · BERLIN
Creative direction and editing across marketing output.
TO ADD
CONTACT · REPRESENTATION · CV · PRESS
Get in touch,or find out more
Scripts, co-productions, festival and press enquiries, or an idea you have not worked out yet.
CONTACT SHEET ↗
teena.dernaika@gmail.com