As a writer, director, cinematographer, Deva’s short films have screened at BAFTA, Academy Award, BIFA, European Film Award and Canadian Screen Award qualifying festivals. She has won six awards and been nominated for seventeen.
Deva’s first feature film BLUE, a supernatural tale, stars Rosie Allerhand and Orla McAllister and Gemma Jones (Rocketman) with Shirley Henderson (Stan & Ollie) performing songs throughout.
Deva’s next feature film will be a thriller, THREE DEGREES about a wannabe singer who has a fractured personality, which she plans to film this year with the same team that made BLUE.
Deva is also developing, KETTLED tv series comedy romance between a police officer and a climate change activist.
Deva is a BAFTA Connect member, who also spent three years on the BAFTA Crew programme, on the BFI Guiding Lights Scheme being mentored by Gurinder Chadha and is a Berlinale Talent Campus Alumni.
Originally trained as an actress at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a BP Scholarship, Deva spent a summer studying filmmaking at NYU, on a William and Eva Fox Fellowship and is still greatly influenced by Prof. Karl Bardosh’s hands-on approach to filmmaking.