Clara Glynn

Executive Producer/Writer

Clara is Executive Producer of Hopscotch Films productions I am Alfred Hitchcock, Women Make Film, Make Me Up, Glasgow Love and Apartheid and Eminent Monster. She is also an award winning television director her work ranges from the feature length documentaries Accidental Anarchist (Storyville); I Met Adolf Eichmann (BBC2); The Stuarts and A History of Scotland (BBC); The Hidden Jews of Berlin and Love Sick (Channel 4). Her drama directing includes Channel 4’s No Angels and BBC’s New Street Law. Her prize winning short films have been screened at festivals including Edinburgh, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Rome and Barcelona. Clara writes drama for Radio 4 including 4 series of the legal drama Behind Closed Doors, and A Life Elsewhere and The Return, two dramas about a teenager who leaves Glasgow to join the Jihad, and a two part adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. She’s written a libretto Hagar in the Wilderness for composer Sally Beamish and a theatre play Safe Place for Oran Mor/The Traverse. 

Clara and John set up Hopscotch Films twenty years ago, it has become one of the leading Scottish production companies with a reputation for high end, innovative creative programmes.