Sophie Hyde has described making the leap into live action features 'huge.'
Sophie Hyde - credit Aex Frayne
Hyde has whipped up a storm this year with her new film 52 Tuesdays, which saw her make the leap from shorts and documentary projects into live action drama for the first time.
52 Tuesdays is a coming of age story that follows a sixteen year old girl whose mother is transitioning genre to become a trans man. The movie was met with critical acclaim when it played at the Sundance Film Festival last year and it has already picked up a string of awards.
And Hyde has been thrilled with the way that the movie has been received and the response that she has been getting from people around the world.
When asked by FemaleFirst how she has found the whole experience of making her live action feature film directorial debut, she said: "It has been huge. The film went to Sundance and Berlin and audiences have really responded to it everywhere so I have just travelled with the film and met so many people. It has been continuing for two years now.
"The difference is that I am not talking about anyone's real life - as you do when you are making a documentary - and they are the central focus. With a fiction film, it is a different kind of conversation with the audience and that has opened up my chance to be out in the world and talking to an international audience.
"We also make a little companion project called My 52 Tuesdays and it is a free app where people are sent a question every Tuesday and they answer the question by taking a photo of themselves with their answer. We have this beautiful response back and the joy and engagement that we have had from people around the world has been pretty thrilling."
52 Tuesdays was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize when it played at Sundance in 2014, and Hyde went on to win the Directing Award for her work.
52 Tuesdays is out now. Read our full interview with Sophie Hyde here.