A self-taught young director who secured 2.5 million YouTube hits with a spoof Jay Z video will walk the red carpet in the West End tonight for her debut movie.
M J Delaney, 27, made Powder Room, starring Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone, for £175,000 in 19 days in Holloway and at 3 Mills Studios, east London. It premieres at Cineworld Haymarket. She is the woman behind Newport State of Mind, a parody about the South Wales town based on Jay Z and Alicia Keys’s Empire State of Mind.
Powder Room, which follows female friends on a wild night out, is written by Rachel Hirons, who adapted her play When Women Wee. Delaney said: “It’s a very British and London film. The crew and cast are mainly young Londoners.” The director, who grew up in Marylebone, started filming as a hobby after borrowing a camera from her brother.
She has shot work for Vivienne Westwood and Comic Relief, and an award-winning ad campaign for Aldi. The film is out on December 6.
