Hi, I’m Tshelane! 👋🏾

Writer, Director and Assistant Director for Film and HETV

Tshelane Reid (they/them or dey/dem) is a creative professional with a passion for visual storytelling. In 2022, they graduated from the highly competitive National Television and Film School (NFTS) - “the world’s best film school” according to The Observer.

Combining 5+years of experience in the traditional and digital media sector with what they’ve learnt at the NFTS, Tshelane is pursuing a career writing and directing narrative films.

Tshelane is currently a Cast PA on a Netflix show. They’ve recently completed a Floor PA contract on Say Nothing, a new FX Production that will be released on Disney+ next year and prior to that was a Floor PA on Season 3 of Bridgerton, one of Netflix’s all-time most watched high end TV (HETV) shows.

In 2022, they were a Communications Officer on a project led by the Director of the Bristol based documentary organisation Boomflix Network and co-founder of Blak Wave Productions.

In 2021, Tshelane produced and creative directed a storytelling podcast through their newly formed media production company Up Late Media, with the aim of uplifting and fairly compensating creatives from marginalised backgrounds.

In late 2020, they were commissioned to write a short story about gentrification and the displacement of global majority migrants for the London Borough of Newham.

They identify as Black British Caribbean, Queer, Non-Binary and Neurodivergent and often use their own experiences as a tool to inform their practice.

Tshelane focuses on projects that help, support and advocate for minority communities and is therefore always open to working with organisations that share these same values.

Feel free to get in touch using the contact details below and swipe to see what else Tshelane is working on right now 👉🏾

DRAGONFLY

Role: Writer/Director

Dragonfly is a thrilling drama that moves the lens away from stereotypical gang-related depictions of working class black british youth. The film shows compassion towards this particular community by bringing attention to a destructive power of debt and the epidemic of suicide that young marginalised people often fall victim.

We hope that in viewing Dragonfly, a story that exhibits the financial pressure faced by those from low income homes and lack of mental health support provided for the general public struggling with a myriad of issues, the audience will leave holding a more empathetic perception of low income black british youth and be compelled to advocate for support within their own communities.

Lead cast:
ROBYN - Charlotte Gosling
LEO - Pierre Marku

EVOLUTION

Role: Writer/Director

EVOLUTION explores what happens to residents who have a deep rooted history in the London borough of Newham amidst regeneration and gentrification

EVOLUTION is a monologue performed by Isaura Barbe-Brown. Audio description voiced by Carla Langley.

Listen to EVOLUTION here

SLAG HEAP

Role: Assistant Director

Set in the Northern town of Stoke-on-Trent, SLAGHEAP explores the complicated relationship between two childhood friends from the deprived potteries village.

With two strong leads, we see the reunion of Natalie, a young woman in the early stages of Heroin use, though you wouldn't really be able to tell and Sid, a squaddie from the same area, who if he hadn't joined the army he'd be in prison.

Lead cast:
NATALIE - Katie Cannon
SID - Harri Rees-Jones