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In the context of film, she has been vocal about the need for both more female-led and more diversely-cast films worldwide and about motivating young women to enroll into filmmaking programs. She has also often mentioned the need for film studios around the world to hire more women, with an accent on
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In
October 2022, Waddington premiered her first episode of television, in which she personally cast Álvaro Morte and Mina El-Hammani, co-written with Spanish legacy writer Rocío Martínez Llano. An adaptation of heritage Spanish IP Historias para no Dormir based on a vampiric story. Waddington
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and industrial surroundings pre-gentrification. During the 1990s, Bilbao was experiencing significant changes and facing various socio-economic challenges, such as terrorism and a heroin crisis, an awareness Alice credits with her first contacts with the abstract ideas of horror.
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credited her lifelong friend and collaborator Minhal Baig as giving her the idea that a Muslim vampire could not enter Jannah as the conflict.
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Actress Ana Rujas surrounded by a FX wall of fire on the set of
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1016:"Netflix Lands 'Scarlet', Next Film For 'Paradise Hills' Helmer Alice Waddington"
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teacher. She grew up in the blue-collar neighborhood of San Mamés, known for its
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Waddington entered pre-production of her first full-length feature,
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and Social Noise also specializing as a digital storyboard artist.
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