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.

I later 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.

I then 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, HARI'S & Scent By Love Papers
Gagliardi Gallery, London
Previously: Volonté London, Basepoint
Teena Dernaika
BIFA NOMINATED ×2
9 PROJECTS TO DATE
FEATURE · SHORT · DOCUMENTARY
Out in the world
2023 — 2025 / THREE RELEASED
One More poster
One More (2023)
SHORT · PRODUCER · 2023 · JESSICA TAYLOR
A dying man's last adventure with the person he loves, at the water's edge.
PRODUCER
★ PREMIERED · BRIGHTON ROCKS
▸ BIFA NOMINATED · BUFF · AESTHETICA · MADRID
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Love is Real (2024)
SHORT · PRODUCER · 2024 · ALBERT BULLOCK
Young lovers with strange desires break up and try to reconnect with the world, only to realise living without each other is harder than they thought.
PRODUCER
★ WON · BEST LEAD PERFORMANCES, LONELY WOLF
▸ BIFA NOMINATED · FOLKESTONE · FILM GALA LONDON
Sestra poster
Sestra (2025)
SHORT · PRODUCER · 2025 · LARA MARIA KUPPEL
Clearing out their Auntie's garage, alienated sisters Mila and Eloise start re-discovering their friendship, exactly when they both needed it most.
PRODUCER
Current slate
2026 — 2027 / THREE PROJECTS
The Screen (2026)
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.
PRODUCER
▸ IN POST
'O' England (2026)
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.
PRODUCER
★ CROWDFUNDING · SHOOTS OCTOBER
Borrowed Time (2027)
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.
PRODUCER
▸ PRE-PRODUCTION
2023 — 2025 / SIX MORE
The fullfilmography
Everything before this year, including the BIFA nominated Love is Real (2024) and One More (2023), plus Yolk, Sestra, Read To Me and Roll With It.
SEE ALL NINE →
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
Gagliardi Gallery
SALES ASSOCIATE · LONDON BIENNALE BOARD ASSOCIATE
Gallery and exhibitions work alongside producing.
2026 — PRESENT
PR & short form content
FREELANCE · HARI'S · SCENT BY LOVE PAPERS
Campaign work and short form content for brands and independents.
2025
Basepoint
SALES ASSOCIATE
Sales associate for EE Broadband.
2023 — 2025
Volonté London
MARKETING TEAM MEMBER
Marketing team member.
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