Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson is a writer/director based in London. Her debut feature HONEYTRAP premiered at the London Film Festival 2014, where she was nominated for the Best British Newcomer Award. It was released in the UK in May to widespread critical acclaim including four-star reviews in The Guardian and Total Film.  It has an 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

HONEYTRAP had its US premiere at SXSW in 2015, where Rebecca secured US representation, and went on to screen at other festivals including Montreal and Urban World in New York. The film has just secured US distribution with Ava DuVernay’s Array and will be day and date released in the US in Autumn 2016.

Rebecca originally trained in Fine Art and then went on to make numerous documentary and drama shorts including 2009’s multi award-winning TOP GIRL, which played at more than thirty festivals including Berlin, Rotterdam and Clermont Ferrand. TOP GIRL and HONEYTRAP came out of more than a decade making films with young people in her local community of Brixton, through her not-for-profit company Fierce Productions.

Rebecca is currently writing RAMUNA, a female-led, YA, fantasy/revenge novel. She is attached to direct UNDERNEATH, a female-led action thriller set on a diamond trawler off the coast of South Africa.

She is set to direct an episode of the critically acclaimed US show, THE MAGICIANS, for Syfy in September.