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Gold winner: Latitude Film Awards, nominated for Seville European Film Festival's Europa Junior Award. Rita's directorial feature debut Bliss! had its World Premiere at the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival.  She began her career in Film and Documentary development at 1515 Productions where she assisted Executive Producer Nick de Grunwald, son and nephew of Producers Dimitri & Anatole de Grunwald, who produced The Millionairess.  

Rita produced Award-Winning animation for Turner Broadcasting Europe (Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami) for 6 years. She founded Sugar & Water Films to produce her first short film: Threesome. It screened in the Calling Card Program at Telluride Film Festival and at numerous additional international film festivals. Threesome was nominated for a Stella Screen Award and was distributed by Sky Movies and Canal +. Canada based Buzz Taxi sold the film after acquiring it from Jane Balfour Films.