The Veiled City
The Veiled City is a sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Merging reality with fiction, the film invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.
- United Kingdom
- 2023, 13 min
- Director: Natalie Cubides-Brady
- Editor: Ona Bartroli
- Screenplay: Natalie Cubides-Brady
- Music: Athena Varosio
- Sound: Ben Goodall
- Cast: Aerynne Eastwood
- Producer: Jacob Swan Hyam
- Production: JSH Films
Natalie Cubides-Brady
Natalie Cubides-Brady is a filmmaker with a visual arts background working at the intersection of documentary and fiction. Her previous short hybrid documentary, Beyond the North Winds (2019), about the legacy of a decommissioned nuclear reactor in Scotland, was selected for Visions du Réel, Karlovy Vary, Edinburgh, and Sundance London. It won Best Short Screenplay at the Poitiers Film Festival and was nominated for an IDA Documentary Award and for a Best British Short by the London Critics Circle.