Tianna Banton

Tianna Reanne Banton, Born 20th July 1996 is a British Filmmaker, Director, Singer - Songwriter, Author and Photographer. She also dabbled in acting when she was younger doing both background and voice work. Tianna developed her love for the creative arts when she was only five years old; taking part in as many school productions as she could from her young age all the way into her late teens. As well as acting, Tianna also began to develop other creative passions such as music and began writing her own songs from the age of eleven, but at the age of seventeen Tianna chose to really pursue acting as a full time job and landed her first professional role as an extra in Davie Fairbanks' Feature Film Legacy; feeling the adrenaline from being on a professional film set she then went on write her own short film 'Last Wish' which ultimately started her production company Hanton Boque Films now shortened to Hanton Films where she has written and directed her own movies ranging from shorts all the way to features and documentaries. Around the same time, Tianna also published her first book, a short story by the title of 'A Kind Soul'; she later adapted this story into her second short film A Kind Soul: The Movie. Tianna's other professional acting credits include feature films; Patient Zero, The Weekend and Brotherhood where she also started her voice artist career. As her for her career move behind the camera, Tianna explains how she fell into filmmaking as a "complete accident" suggesting that she only started making films "to boost her acting experience so she could get an agent" but ended up falling in love with the art of storytelling. Now a days, Tianna mainly focuses on filmmaking and music and released her debut EP 'Reflections' in July. Her filmmaking credits include: Last Wish, A Kind Soul: The Movie, What Could Go Wrong, Trial And Error, Best Blues, Young Black And On The Way Up, Re-Incarnation: The Three Brothers, Killed Instincts, Out of the Darkness, Just Remember and The Closer I Get To You.