Chanya Button

Chanya Button

Birth : 1986-12-25, London, England, UK

History

Chanya Button is an English director and screenwriter, whose work spans film, television and theatre. After learning the ropes in the assistant directors' department on the Harry Potter franchise, she directed two feature films, Burn Burn Burn (2015) and Vita & Virginia (2018), the latter of which she also co-wrote. She then moved on to television, directing two episodes of the BBC One war drama World on Fire (2019), dealing with the Dunkirk evacuation and the Nazi occupation of Paris, and The Spanish Princess (2020), as well as the third 60th anniversary special episode of Doctor Who, set to air in November 2023. Button has also worked extensively as a runner and assistant director on big-budget feature films shot in the UK, notably on Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).

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Chanya Button
Chanya Button

Movies

Vita & Virginia
Vita & Virginia
Screenplay
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
Vita & Virginia
Vita & Virginia
Director
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
Burn Burn Burn
Burn Burn Burn
Producer
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
Burn Burn Burn
Burn Burn Burn
Director
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
Alpha: Omega
Alpha: Omega
Producer
A ravaged London is in the midst of a century-long civil war in which the battle-line isn't race or religion: it's gender. And the resource at stake isn't land or wealth: it's reproduction. The film follows the journey of the youngest member of an underground female resistance group, and her relationship with her biological mother.
Alpha: Omega
Alpha: Omega
Writer
A ravaged London is in the midst of a century-long civil war in which the battle-line isn't race or religion: it's gender. And the resource at stake isn't land or wealth: it's reproduction. The film follows the journey of the youngest member of an underground female resistance group, and her relationship with her biological mother.
Alpha: Omega
Alpha: Omega
Director
A ravaged London is in the midst of a century-long civil war in which the battle-line isn't race or religion: it's gender. And the resource at stake isn't land or wealth: it's reproduction. The film follows the journey of the youngest member of an underground female resistance group, and her relationship with her biological mother.
Fire
Fire
Producer
Charles Dickens burns a lifetime of letters in one night and struggles with a desire that longs to make itself real.
Fire
Fire
Director
Charles Dickens burns a lifetime of letters in one night and struggles with a desire that longs to make itself real.
Frog/Robot
Frog/Robot
Director
An off-kilter comedy about a girl who thinks more than she says, and a boy that says more than he thinks.