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Angela Pope (born in 1945) is a British television and film director, documentarist, producer and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in Walton-on-Thames, Pope graduated in political sciences at the University of Sussex.^[2] She started her career as a documentarist for BBC, getting critical acclaim as well as raising controversies with Yesterday's Men (1971), which portrayed some members of the Wilson Cabinet in the aftermath of the Labour Party defeat at 1970 United Kingdom general election.^[2]^[3]^[4] After numerous documentaries, including the controversial The Best Days? (1977), which criticized the comprehensive school system using the Faraday High School in Ealing as case study,^[3]^[5] she made her narrative film debut in 1986 with the television film Night Shift,^[4] based on her own play.^[3]

In 1987 Pope got critical acclaim with the Screen Two AIDS-themed television film Sweet As You Are, starring Liam Neeson and Miranda Richardson, which was awarded best film from the Royal Television Society.^[3] Her feature film debut Captives premiered out of competition at the 1994 edition of the Venice Film Festival, and was followed two years later by the family drama Hollow Reed.^[3]

^ McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (24 April 2014). "Pope, Angela". The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition. Manchester University Press. p. 607. ISBN 978-0-7190-9138-4.
^ ^a ^b Blandford, Linda (18 May 1975). "Making Angela's Story". The Observer. p. 34. Retrieved 17 February 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Venning, Nicola (2 September 1996). "Caught in a tug of love". The Times.
^ ^a ^b Murphy, Robert (2019). "Pope, Angela". Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 491–2. ISBN 978-1-83871-533-5.
^ Jeppesen, Chris (8 December 2017). "Best Days? Panorama, 21st March 1977". Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom since 1945. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 16 February 2023.