Dictynna Hood, sometimes credited as D.R. Hood, is a British film director and screenwriter. [1] [2] [3] She leads a module on film production for the University of Warwick at the London Film School. [4]
Hood grew up in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and attended Oxford High School for Girls. [5]
Her first feature film Wreckers (2011) premiered at the London Film Festival. It starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy as a couple returning to a rural village. [5] [4] Her second feature film, Us Among the Stones (2019), stars Laurence Fox and Anna Calder-Marshall: The Guardian's critic called it a "somewhat oddball family reunion drama". [6] [7] [8]
Her 2006 film The Other Man won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. [9]
She is the founder and director of "likely story" film and television production company. [10]