Holly King is a writer and director from Helensburgh, based in Glasgow. She graduated from the MA Filmmaking programme at the University of the West of Scotland in 2025 and was awarded the Court Medal for highest academic achievement. Since then, she has balanced working on her own creative projects alongside time spent working within a Glasgow post-production house.
Much of her work is rooted in a female perspective, using intimate and emotionally sensitive lenses to explore the tension between what people feel internally and the extent they’re able to express outwardly.
Her recent short films As You Leave and Donny & Lisa are restrained, character-driven coming-of-age stories exploring underrepresented and emotionally complex relationship dynamics.
Alongside filmmaking, she writes (bad) poetry, privately writes songs on her guitar, and occasionally embarrasses herself at open mic nights. Much of her writing is attentive to the subtle details and unspoken tensions that exist within everyday interactions, a sensibility that carries into her filmmaking.
She is excited to be part of the Sean Connery Talent Lab at the National Film and Television School, continuing to develop and shape her voice as a director among other emerging filmmakers.