Teele Dunkley

Teele Dunkley (formerly known as Teele Killing) is a music video and film director, writer and producer. Teele is from Estonia but for the last 18 years has mostly worked and lived in Norfolk, UK. She is currently in pre-production with her first feature film The Secret Folk Dancer.

Teele has worked on many projects and tried her hand at various crew roles, making her a director who understands the needs and challenges of her crew well. Teele has a strong vision while also love of working collaboratively with her team and the ability to create a relaxed and positive atmosphere on any film set she directs at.

Growing up, Teele's main interests were dancing, music (singing and playing instruments), costume making, science and photography. In the early part of her career, Teele focused on directing music videos, linking her background of music and dance to these project and developing her visual style with directing, filming and editing most of these projects, in some cases as a one-woman-crew and others with a large number of people behind and in front of the camera. One of the challenges of these early projects was to find ways to tell good visual stories with a very small budget - perfect learning opportunity for a new filmmaker to rely more on imagination, resourcefulness and less on budget.