Sheila Hayman has written and directed films for the BBC, ARTE, Beijing TV and others, winning a BAFTA and Time Out Documentary Series of the Year, and a Robert Kennedy award. She has been UK Young Journalist of the Year, the BAFTA/Fulbright Fellow in Los Angeles, a columnist for The Guardian, and is a Director’s Fellow of the MIT Media Lab. She has also worked with the UK NGO Freedom from Torture on behalf of refugees. MENDELSSOHN, THE NAZIS AND ME was nominated for the Grierson Arts Documentary of the Year. She is now working on a film about Fanny Mendelssohn, her conflicted relationship with her own extraordinary talent, and the part Felix played in its suppression.