Claire Oakley
Claire Oakley (born 1985) is a British film director and screenwriter. She began her career directing multiple short films, including Tracks (2014) and Physics (2012) before writing and directing her first feature film Make Up (2019).
Works
Under Salt Marsh
Morfa Halen is a tight-knit Welsh town precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. The discovery sends shockwaves through the community, reviving the ghost of an unsolved cold case that rocked the town three years prior - the disappearance of Jackie’s niece, Nessa, which cost her career.
Release Date2026-01-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count53
Culprits
Family man Joe Petrus is living the American dream with his fiancé and step-kids. However, unbeknownst to them, Joe was involved in a mysterious crime three years ago and now his dangerous past is about to catch up with him. When a killer starts targeting the crew behind the crime, Joe realizes it's only a matter of time before his family is targeted. He returns to London to track down his old gang and find out who is coming after them.
Release Date2023-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count62
James
Gloucestershire, England, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world's first smallpox vaccine.
Release Date2014-11-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Make Up
After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.
Release Date2020-07-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count46
Beautiful Enough
When a young girl, fixated on images of beautiful women, hears her parents go to bed she sets to work on her secret project.
Release Date2011-01-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Physics
Rona (9) lives in a run down seaside town where the local power station seems to be sucking all the energy away. Her Mum is ill and her best friend Sandi (9) is planning to run away. When Rona finds the God Particle on the beach she thinks it may hold the energy they all need.
Release Date2013-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
My Husband, the Cyborg
With incredible intimacy, filmmaker Susanna Cappellaro documents her husband Scott’s decision to have an extrasensory device implanted into his body in order to increase his awareness of the world around him. As Scott goes further down this path, he can't understand his wife's resistance.
Release Date2025-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count1