Hester Ruoff

Actress and Producer Hester Ruoff began her career on the ‘other’ side of the camera producing a variety of award winning shorts, including Bafta-longlisted ‘GERRY’ starring Joan Collins.

She moved into features with the groundbreaking one shot drama ‘Boiling Point’ starring Stephen Graham and its incredible ensemble cast, which received an incredible eleven 2021 BIFA nominations (4 wins) and 4 Bafta nominations including for herself Outstanding debut producer. 

She recently merged her production company Burton Fox Films with producing partner Bart Ruspoli to become Ascendant Fox producing ‘Gassed Up’ for Amazon Prime, (Stephen Odubola, Taz Skylar, Steve Toussaint, Mae Muller) as their first movie out of the blocks as a new company. She is now in prep for her debut TV series with The BBC and BBC studios as a follow up to the film with Matriarch and Made up prods.  Hester is passionate about making films that have a social conscience and that start important conversations. She also strives to create a safe, inclusive and encouraging environment on set, that allows cast and crew to flourish in their gifting. 

She is honoured to be part of the Jury for this years 2022 BIFA awards.