Leslie Maria Lampe
Filmmaker | Designer | Actor
Featured: Whose Future? Our Future - OfficialTrailer (2019)
Film
Documentary Short | 2019 | Whose Future? OUR FUTUREHow easy is it to save the planet? How easy is it when you are in 10th grade? Eli is a teenager, student, artist and climate activist.This film was directed and produced as Ual MA Documentary Film Graduate project in 2019. It tells the story of the 15 Year old from London fighting for climate justice. While struggling to stay on top of things with homework and exams, running from meetings to strikes, trying to squeeze in a bit of family life in the evenings, he makes plans to travel the world amongst hundreds of thousands of students. To rally the people, to protest on the streets and wherever he needs to, for change and against the fear of not having much of a world left to live in when he grows up.Whose Future? OUR FUTURE premiered at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival Showcase 2020.Role: Self-shooting Director | ProducerNote: To get the code to watch or enquire about this film, please get in touch.
Mystery Drama Short | 2019 | Where the Birds goThe 11-year old Mano tries to find answers to a traumatic event from the past, while searching for his missing father in the Black Forest.Role: Unit production manager
Documentary Short | 2022 | The Sunflower ClubHave you heard about the Sunflower Club community who grew their gardens over zoom?In 2020, when the U.K. went lockdown, council worker Jane saw a unique opportunity to bring together a group of people from all over Cardiff, to share in the joys of community growing.Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Documentary Short | 2022 | Building for Nature - Tom's storyWhat does a bird really need to make a garden its home?Tom lives in a very urban part of Bristol with his young family and has tackled this question in a remarkable way. Breaking up as much concrete as possible, he has filled every inch of ground around his house with life. With a wildflower meadow, a mini food forest, a wildlife pond, bushes, bird boxes and bug hotels. Involving their kids at every step, Tom and his wife made their outdoor space a place to grow and play, as well as a home for nature. Watch to hear Tom's top tips on how to think like a bird, as well as how to fight despair about the growing global challenges by helping wildlife to thrive and survive in the space he can control.Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
RSPB People Stories Showreel 2022-2023
Documentary | work in progress | Eli and Anita
Imagefilm | 2017 | Immer wieder davonBefore our first group meeting a friend who lived next door came running over grabbing a newspaper article and said: "Marla, Marla!, there´s going to be a new scouts group! I am going to have a look, will you come with me?“Imagefilm of the german youth and scout movement (German language | subtitled) produced in 2017.Role: Self-shooting Director | ProducerNote: To get the code to watch or enquire about this film, please get in touch.
Documentary Short | 2022 | Belfast's Wildflower AlleysA community in Belfast have tackled the high pollution and crime rates in their alleyways by transforming the backstreets of their neighbourhood into thriving, urban wildflower gardens!Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Documentary Short | 2022 | The Colony of ArtistsAs part of a network of Swift City projects, these artists, who use their own gardens as exhibition spaces, have also transformed them into wildlife havens! This creates homes for the swifts and attracts more pollinators, which in turn provides the swifts with more food.All around this area, you will not only find beautiful murals, but also thriving wildlife gardens and swift boxes.Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Documentary Short | 2022 | Sharing for nature - Maggie's storyHow can one Individual make a difference for nature?Maggie's house sits on the side of a busy road on the outskirts of Llanelli in South Wales. With it's modest white walls, small front door and narrow front yard, it could easily be missed while driving by. The back of the house however, reveals a magnificent, rich, wild garden, full of magic, wonder and wildlife. For 20 years, Maggie has nurtured this garden, growing many different heritage plants and saving their seeds. During the Lockdown in 2021, she decided she wanted to help people. To grow their own food, to connect to other people and to fight the worries of the world by helping nature on their doorsteps.Maggie created the "incredible seed library". A free, online Facebook group where she offered to send people the seeds she had saved. Within two weeks, her offering had grown from the 20 seeds she had saved, to over 100 different seeds that people send her, wanting to help and be part of the community. Now, one year later, the first volunteers, the "seed guardians", grow and save particular seeds for the purpose of stocking up Maggie's library.Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Showreel | 2022 | In a Cave a VoiceShowreel for the 2022 theatre production of "In a Cave a Voice"Note: To get the code to watch or enquire about this film, please get in touch.Role: Set designer | Videographer | Editor
Documentary Short | 2018 | Why we dance"Do you think everybody should dance then?" is the last question Matt asks Val. We are sitting in a Café down the road from Bethnal Green tube station in East London. The walls have as many colours as the mugs, the plants and the paintings on the wall. Val and her friend Sylvia are having tea here every Tuesday after the session."Why we dance" was produced in collaboration with Matteo Villanueva-Brandt in 2018. The four-minute short film follows "Spin off“, an over 55s dance group run by the Dance company and charity Green Candle Dance Company Ltd. Dancer Val shows why they dance, why they dance, why everyone should dance, and how not to be afraid of getting older.Role: Self-shooting Director | ProducerNote: To get the code to watch or enquire about this film, please get in touch.
Documentary Short | 2022 | E1 Community GardenersA group of friends in east London rally their neighbours, landlords and council to transform neglected patches of wasteland into lifelines for nature and local people.Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Documentary Short | 2022 | Building for Nature – Alexander’s story“In 2050, I like to think that the natural world would be thriving, due to us taking the time to understand nature, instead of working against it, we work with it.” Horticulturist Alexander, who moved to the Outer Hebrides with his family in 2020, shares images of his beautiful home as well as his vision for a brighter future for nature, wildlife and people.Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Documentary Short | 2022 | Planting for nature - A story from AberystwythWhat is a hedge wedge and how does it help wildlife?The outdoor space around the Penparcau community centre is a calm, green refuge, for wildlife as well as people. Volunteers meet up regularly to create more space for nature and more shelter for wildlife. The community is part of TirCoed, who supports people connecting with land (Tir) and woods (Coed) by delivering outdoor training, learning and wellbeing programmes Their newest edition is a hedge wedge.A hedge wedge is a block of hedging plants for those who don't have the space for a long hedge, ideal for a corner or edge of a garden. It can be planted as a triangle or rectangle of hedging plants such as hawthorn, dogwood, field maple or hazel. Best planted between November and February, it creates a dense, food-rich, safe place for wildlife such as nesting birds.Actions like these especially in urban areas make a huge difference for local wildlife and can be a crucial lifeline. Coming together as a community to take action for nature, project co-ordinator Alice says "and also just enjoying each others company is just so valuable".Role: Self-shooting Director | Producer for RSPB
Short Film | 2025 | FoundlingsPaul and Sarah are 10 and 5 years old when their birth mother Margaret takes Sarah with her to America, leaving Paul to fend for himself in the social service system of eastern England. 15 years later, he gets a voicemail from Margaret, asking him to visit Sarah - in an alcohol rehab centre in the UK. Foundlings follows the fight of two siblings, for a bond they never got to form.Note: This film is currently commencing its festival run. To get the code to watch or enquire about this film, please get in touch.Role: Producer | Lead actress
Design
Logo | 2023 | Pembroke College Graduate Parlour - University of CambridgeRole: Designer
Logo | 2021 | Ev. Studienwerk VilligstRole: Designer
Production Logo | 2025 | Foundling FilmsRole: Designer
Official Film Poster | 2025 | Foundlings | Short FilmRole: Designer
Poster | 2022 | In a Cave a VoicePoster design for 2022 productions of Rebekah King's In a Cave a Voice.Premiered at National Student Drama Festival 2021
Winner of Pembroke Players Playwriting Competition 2020
Performed at Brighton Fringe 2022Role: Designer
Audio Play | 2021 | IN A CAVE A VOICEListen! There are a few things you must do before the story can begin. Pay attention and do exactly what I say: If you cannot manage everything you must do it in your mind instead…„IN A CAVE A VOICE“ is an immersive audio experience written by Rebekah King and produced by the Pembroke Players, Cambridge in 2021. A Neolithic girl is the only narrator. Left alone in a cave with only her imagination to distract her from her fears, she starts a conversation with the audience. „IN A CAVE A VOICE“ premiered at the NFDS Festival 2021.Role: Editor | Animator
Book | 2017 | MädchenfahrtenbuchIch hasse Winter. Ich hasse geschlossene Räume. Ich will raus. [I hate winter. I hate closed rooms. I want to get out into the wild.]Women and girls have been travelling the world as part of the scouts and other youth movements since the early 20th century. The Mädchenfahrtenbuch is the first book to tell their stories firsthand. Written largely on the road by women and girls of all ages.Role: Designer | Layouter | Illustrator
Social Tiles | 2020 | Für Mädchen verbotenSociel tiles to promote the release of "Für Mädchen verboten"Role: Designer
Book | 2020 | Für Mädchen verbotenDie Geschichte eines Mädchens auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung in den wegweisenden ersten Jahren der Jugendbewegung.[The story of a girl searching for freedom in the pioneering early years of the youth movement.]Role: Designer | Layouter | Illustrator
Acting | Modelling
Photo series | 2018 | La vue intimeLa vue intime IPhoto series by Gerrit Hußmann
(www.wildanimalagency.de)
Photo series | 2018 | La vue intimeLa vue intime IVPhoto series by Gerrit Hußmann
(www.wildanimalagency.de)
Photo series | 2018 | La vue intimeLa vue intime IIPhoto series by Gerrit Hußmann
(www.wildanimalagency.de)
Photo Series | 2019 | Dust and silkDust and silk IPhoto series by Sebastian Wecker
Photo series | 2018 | La vue intimeLa vue intime IIPhoto series by Gerrit Hußmann
(www.wildanimalagency.de)
Photo Series | 2019 | Dust and silkDust and silk IIPhoto series by Sebastian Wecker
Short Film | 2025 | FoundlingsPaul and Sarah are 10 and 5 years old when their birth mother Margaret takes Sarah with her to America, leaving Paul to fend for himself in the social service system of eastern England. 15 years later, he gets a voicemail from Margaret, asking him to visit Sarah - in an alcohol rehab centre in the UK. Foundlings follows the fight of two siblings, for a bond they never got to form.Note: This film is currently commencing its festival run. To get the code to watch or enquire about this film, please get in touch.Role: Lead actress | Producer
About
ABOUT MEI am a filmmaker and actor with a background in Art and Design based in the UK. I've worked in the film and media industry for over 7 years, initially alongside completing degrees at the University of the Arts London (LCC, M.A.) and the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College, MPhil). I work to increase and support bold, young, female voices in film and storytelling. I have recently co-founded the production company Foundling Films, which completed its debut short film "Foundlings" (2025) earlier this year. My research interests include conservation and nature recovery, youth activism and gender equality.Other projects include short documentary "Eli and Anita", supported by the One World Media Fellowship, as well as independent theatre and screen acting work.
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