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Victoria Mapplebeck is a BAFTA award winning director and writer who has worked in Film, VR and immersive audio. Victoria is passionate about the innovation and intimacy of smartphone filmmaking, her smartphone shorts, have received a Vimeo staff pick, a Broadcast Digital Award and a BAFTA.  Victoria recently filmed, directed and edited  Motherboard, a smartphone feature documentary shot over 20 years which charts the joy, pain and comedy of raising her son Jim alone. She is  co-founder and co curater of ‘SMart, The London International Smartphone Film Festival’, with director and former Channel 4 commissioner Adam Gee. In 2024, Victoria won The Women in Film and TV Director Award. She is a film critic and has been part of many film juries including the RTS, WFTV and Red Sea Immersive. Victoria is also a BAFTA member and Professor of Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London