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Gage Oxley | |
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 Oxley at the US premiere of Wretched Things in Los Angeles | |
| Born | April 21, 1997 Leeds, England |
| Occupations | Film director, writer, producer, intimacy coordinator |
Gage Oxley (born 21 April 1997) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer from Leeds.[1] They founded the Leeds production company Oxygen Films, and many of their films deal with LGBTQ+ subjects.[2] Oxley uses they/he pronouns.[3]
Early life
[edit]Oxley was born in Leeds.[1] At eight they joined the Leeds Young Film Festival as a young consultant, and stayed involved until they were 18. They later worked for the festival, first as an intern and then as its youth engagement coordinator.[2][4] They did not go to university or film school.[2]
Career
[edit]Oxley set up Oxygen Films in Leeds in 2015 with Sian Carry and Eleanor Hodson.[2][5] The company is non-profit and mostly works with people aged 16 to 25.[2] Oxley won a Love Arts Award in 2016, and in 2017 was nominated in the Role Models category of the National Diversity Awards.[2]
Their first films with the company were short films marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. The first, This World We Live In (2017), was made for about £500.[2] It follows a student, played by Jack Parr, who starts using drugs to avoid facing his sexuality. In The Film Magazine, Katie Doyle found the narration unnecessary and parts of the script clichéd, but praised Oxley's direction.[6] The second, Pulse (2017), is a dance film shot in one take with no dialogue.[2] It won a Diamond Award at the British International Amateur Film Festival[7] and a bronze medal at the 2018 UNICA festival in the Czech Republic.[8] In 2018, Pulse screened as part of the Youth Shorts programme at the Vancouver International Film Festival.[9]
Oxley's feature Wretched Things, made up of three stories, was shot in Leeds with a cast and crew aged 16 to 25. It premiered in Leicester Square in January 2019.[10] Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall gave it four out of five. He thought it looked impressive for a low-budget film and praised the cast and music, though he felt its warnings about the risks the characters take became preachy at times.[11] Oxley was interviewed about their work on BBC Radio Leeds that April,[12] and later travelled to Los Angeles to promote the film.[2]
In 2020 Oxley released A Series of Light, a six-part anthology series, on Amazon Prime Video. Each episode follows a different character. Aaron Haughton of Viddy Well gave it four out of five, finding the first half stronger than the second.[13]
In 2021 Oxley was one of nine people in the first group of the Virgin Money Foundation's Young Change Makers Fellowship, and received a £10,000 grant.[14]
Oxley was a producer on Lonelier Than Love, directed by Em J Gilbertson,[15] which received funding from the BFI NETWORK Short Film Fund in 2024[16] and screened at BFI Flare in 2026.[17]
Oxley wrote and directed Nosebleed (2026), a short thriller about a content moderator, starring Adam Wadsworth and Theo Walker. It was shot in Leeds and co-produced with the York Theatre Company in New York.[5] Attitude, Queerty and Instinct covered the film when its trailer was released in September 2026.[18][19][20]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | This World We Live In | Writer, director | Short[6] |
| 2017 | Pulse | Director | Short[2] |
| 2018 | TOG | Co-writer, director | Short[21] |
| 2019 | Wretched Things | Writer, director | Feature[11] |
| 2020 | A Series of Light | Creator, director | Anthology series[13] |
| 2021 | Firelight | Writer, director, producer | Short[22] |
| 2022 | Electric Love | Co-writer, co-director | Short[23] |
| 2023 | Me & the Witch | Director | Short[24] |
| 2026 | Lonelier Than Love | Producer | Short[15] |
| 2026 | Nosebleed | Writer, director, producer | Short[5] |
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Interview with our MAY 2017 winner: Gage Oxley". The Monthly Film Festival. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Cale, Anna (16 September 2019). "FILM | Gage Oxley – Authentically Youth". The Culture Vulture. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Gage Oxley". Leeds Film. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Parry, Becky (2022). "Exploring Cultural and Social Differences in Defining Films for Children". In Brown, Noel (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film. Oxford University Press. p. 43.
- 1 2 3 Adam, Nicola (2 November 2025). "Harry Potter actor to star in boundary-pushing film based in Leeds". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- 1 2 Doyle, Katie (2 April 2017). "This World We Live In (2017) Short Film Review". The Film Magazine. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "2018 Gage Oxley/Beth Fallon interview". British International Amateur Film Festival. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "UNICA Palmares 2018" (PDF). UNICA. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Vancouver International Film Festival (37th ed.). Vancouver International Film Festival. 2018. p. 99.
- ↑ Baros, Tim (28 January 2019). "New LGBTQ film 'WRETCHED THINGS' World Premiere in London's Leicester Square". TheGayUK. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- 1 2 Cline, Rich (25 January 2019). "Wretched Things". Shadows on the Wall. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "The Scene, 11/04/2019". The Scene. 11 April 2019. BBC Radio Leeds. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- 1 2 Haughton, Aaron (20 August 2020). "A Series Of Light: An Amazon Exclusive Series Of Short Films Built Around Identity". Viddy Well. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Virgin Money Foundation (15 December 2021). Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2021 (PDF) (Report). pp. 6, 36. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Lonelier Than Love". Oxygen Films. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Short Film Fund: Projects selected in 2024". British Film Institute. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Crosara, Nic (17 February 2026). "BFI Flare 2026: Films we think DIVAs will love". DIVA. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Sugg, Aaron (18 September 2026). "Queer psycho-sexual thriller Nosebleed trailer explores the impact of sexually 'perverse' material online". Attitude. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Scheetz, Cameron (18 September 2026). "WATCH: Nosebleed is the unhinged dark web thriller you won't be able to unsee". Queerty. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Eugene (23 September 2026). "Nosebleed: A Queer Dark-Web Thriller That Gets Horny". Instinct. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "TOG". Oxygen Films. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Firelight". Oxygen Films. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Electric Love". Oxygen Films. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Me & The Witch". Oxygen Films. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
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