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Chanya Joyce Dorothy Button (born 25 December 1986) is an English director and screenwriter. After studying at RADA and learning the ropes in the assistant directors' department on the Harry Potter franchise, she directed two feature films, Burn Burn Burn (2015) and Vita & Virginia (2018), the latter of which she also co-wrote.
Chanya Button. Director: Burn Burn Burn. Chanya Button was born in London in 1986. After studying drama and literature at Oxford University she became an assistant director in a few of the most prestigious theaters of the English capital (The Globe, the Bush, the Tricycle).
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Chanya is a film, television and theatre director and writer. She is currently developing original series’ as Writer & Director with Priyanka Chopra’s Company Purple Pebble, and Nicola Shindler’s company Quay Street Productions.
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Chanya Button is a British filmmaker who creates short films with a focus on female characters and stories. Watch her showreel and explore her portfolio of award-winning works on her home page.
Chanya joined Doctor Who as a Director for one of Russell T Davies’ 60th Anniversary Specials, which will be released on the BBC and on Disney Plus internationally in 2023, for Bad Wolf and the BBC.
Jul 4, 2019 · Vita & Virginia is British director Chanya Button’s sensual re-imagining of the 1920s romance between Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Their affair, which would inspire Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, took place when both influential author Woolf and poet-novelist Sackville ...
