Fiona Cunningham-Reid has worked in the film and television industry ever since leaving London Film School in 1980. She also has an MA in Scriptwriting from the University of East Anglia. Fiona was a founding member of Stonewall the largest lesbian and gay lobbying group in Europe.
Initially working in the camera department she was camera assistant on many features, commercials and documentaries. Some of which include, Biddy, Superman III, Nineteen Nineteen, Knights & Emeralds, My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammie and Rosie Get Laid, Straight to Hell and many more.
Fiona worked on many music videos in the 80’s and commercials which have mostly faded from memory but does include Madonna, Like a Virgin, Queen, etc. She also produced and directed Thin Ice, the feature film, bought by Channel 4, with a cinema release.
Fiona then started making her own documentaries, including:
- Feed Them to the Cannibals, the first film about the Sydney Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras
- The Real Country House, a 4 part TV series about the English Aristocracy between the wars, The Heiress and the Air Ace, A Weekend at Six Mile Bottom, Our Man in Westminster, The Plainest Dressed Woman in Court
- Toxic Queen about David Mcdiarmid, a queer Australian artist/activist
- Slim, exploring the AIDS epidemic in Uganda
- Croc-a-dyke Dundee about Dawn O’Donnel the outrageous entrepreneur who started all the first drag clubs, sex shops and car parks in Sydney
- Girls on Tour about the Women’s World Tennis Tour
- Groundswell a film about the Cherry family starting the fist ever regenerative agricultural show in the UK (now the largest)
- Wine, Women and Friends about a French couple, a nurse and a vet, Carole and Jo who realised their dream to make their own wine
- Kenya Murder Mystery, a detailed insight into the trail of Thomas Cholmondeley, the aristocratic heir to an immense colonial estate in Kenya, accused of murdering a poacher in 2006
- Ian Mckellen on Tour at 80, an intimate portrait of Ian as he toured UK and Irish theatres for his 80th birthday raising over £6 million for theatre charities
Tull Stories is currently distributing her latest film, Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism in cinemas across the UK and Ireland.