director of the film “Copa 71”
Rachel's co-directorial debut in feature documentary, Copa 71, was selected as the opening doc for TIFF 2023 and went on to screen at BFI LFF, AFI, IDFA and (of course) Docs Against Gravity, among others. The film is due for international theatrical release in Spring/Summer 2024. She previously produced theatrically-released documentaries End of the Storm(2020), Sachin: A Billion Dreams (2017) and her television documentary work includes the Humanitas-prize winning This is Football(2019) and the Amazon Originals series Le Mans: Racing is Everything (2017). Previous to working in documentary, she worked in news journalism (BBC World Service, NYT, CNN, France 24) and then across a broad range of factual and entertainment television, specialising in creating and delivering first series of multiple award-winning and long-running shows such as Travel Man (C4) and Clarkson's Farm (Amazon Studios).
