Serena Armitage established Red Breast in 2016, with the support of a BFI Vision Award, after producing Ben Cleary’s short ‘Stutterer’ which was a festival hit and went on to win an Irish Film & Television Award, Critics Circle Award and an Academy Award.

Since setting up Red Breast, Serena has produced Peter Strickland’s feature ‘Flux Gourmet’ with regular collaborator Pietro Greppi. The film stars Asa Butterfield , Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed Fatma Mohamed, Makis Papadimtriou as well as Richard Bremmer and Leo Bill. It premiered at Berlinale 2022 and was released by IFC Midnight and Curzon UK.

The company’s other film projects include Sarah Clift’s BAFTA long-listed short ‘The Birth Of Valerie Venus’, a TV pilot for ‘B O R E D’ directed by Georgia Oakley, which premiered at South by South West and Peter Strickland’s short ‘Blank Narcissus: Passion Of The Swamp’. We have projects in development with Peter Strickland, Deborah Haywood, Lucy Brydon, Sarah Clift and Iggy London supported by BBC Films, the BFI and Lionsgate UK.

Serena graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in English Literature and began her career cutting trailers for TV. She was one of six employees selected for the ITV Fast Track Scheme and went on to produce a wide range of award winning programmes for the UK broadcasters.