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Writer / director / producer / editor / commissioner with a penchant for comedy, travel, music, social wellbeing and LGBTQ+ stories.
Teale has won numerous awards including most authentic Buster Brown haircut every year from ages 2-16 and again from ages 24-32. Their narrative style tends towards the non-linear as seen in her films Cosmopolis and Open. Blending humour with social change, Teale believes comedy is the best tool we have to bridge humanity and expose the hypocrisies and absurdities of social norms. Her comedy style has been labeled 'inappropriate at best' as seen in The Way We Wool, Tales of Whoredom and Awkwarditity, and who could forget the deleted tampon scene in Jersey Dyke? She collaborates often with other directors as writer, editor and ham actor. She claims to be genius, though this has never been verified. She also loves talking about herself in the third person and listening to the various ways in which people pronounce her name.
Teale has won numerous awards including most authentic Buster Brown haircut every year from ages 2-16 and again from ages 24-32. Their narrative style tends towards the non-linear as seen in her films Cosmopolis and Open. Blending humour with social change, Teale believes comedy is the best tool we have to bridge humanity and expose the hypocrisies and absurdities of social norms. Her comedy style has been labeled 'inappropriate at best' as seen in The Way We Wool, Tales of Whoredom and Awkwarditity, and who could forget the deleted tampon scene in Jersey Dyke? She collaborates often with other directors as writer, editor and ham actor. She claims to be genius, though this has never been verified. She also loves talking about herself in the third person and listening to the various ways in which people pronounce her name.
Teale Failla (pronounced Teel Fay-la, pronouns are she/her, they/them) has worked in film and television since obtaining BA degrees in Philosophy & Psychology from Vanderbilt University where she specialised in de Beauvior's existentialism and Lacan's concept of the Real (I know, weird combo right?) Their career has taken them as far as Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos to shoot documentaries about the lives of underprivileged children and generational identity. She's used to one-person-band operations as well as directing large crews for music captures and performances. As a writer and independent producer, her influences are Michaela Coel, Julia Davis, Amy Sedaris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and many more listed in the links page.
Teale earned a postgraduate master's degree in Film and Media at The New School for Social Research in New York City, producing and directing 16mm films, digital shorts, and crewing on numerous other independent films whilst presenting academic papers at media conferences on film theory and semiotics, applying Lacanian psychoanalysis to film and photography theory. She has also taught film and video production and editing at The New School, The Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts, The Connecticut School of Broadcasting, and BRIC Media Education. She has consulted at Princeton University and Monroe College.
In New York City, Teale has directed, produced and commissioned television programmes at Brooklyn Independent Media whilst also serving as the Technical Director of the production department. Her commissions focused on up-and-coming comedy web series, diversity in representing marginalised communities, and social justice particularly in equal rights, LGBT+ visibility and housing.
As a producer/director/shooter/editor, Teale works with clients such as Lincoln Center, Tom Tom Magazine, Robin Cloud Comedy, Retrofret Vintage Guitars, Verge NYC Fashion Week, Enterprise Sales Meetup, Pratt Institute, and many independent clients. If that sounds like an eclectic list, it is. She has varied interests (don't dangle anything shiny in front of her).
With years of managerial experience in production companies, television stations and educational institutions, Teale is committed to overhauling the typical management model to focus on employee wellbeing, shared and authentic leadership, community enrichment and environmental protection through healthful business missions and methodologies which also increase productivity and profit. In 2020, Teale earned an MBA with Distinction from The University of Edinburgh and was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for graduating first in the programme as well as the Somewhere LGBT+ Scholarship for demonstrated commitment to making a positive difference to the LGBT+ Community. Her capstone was on leading creative teams in the British television industry, focusing on how inclusion and wellbeing produces profit and sustainability. In addition, Teale has certifications from the London Business School and The University of Edinburgh in Progressive Management and Social Wellbeing respectively. It's true, treating people well actually benefits companies and communities! Who would have thought!? (Teale did, Teale thought it - oh who am I kidding, I'm writing this - I did, I thought it...)
In her spare time, Teale enjoys playing in Irish sessions and Scottish pipe bands including giving drumming lessons and heading the drum corps, marketing, booking and social media for Kings County Pipes & Drums, an inclusive bagpipe and drum corps she co-founded in 2012. She has frequently participated in Media Studies alumni panels at The New School and conducted regional admissions interviews for Vanderbilt University whilst representing her alma mater at college events. Teale gets excited about plant based and gluten free cooking and likes to experiment with making healthful versions of traditional comfort foods. Other interests include Brutalist architecture, surrealist art, Kubrick films, hill/moor-walking, and travel. But most of the time, she's writing ridiculous sketch comedies in her head. She can't help it.
Teale aims to create and help others create media that entertains, educates and inspires people to make the world a better place...and hopefully make people laugh along the way. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts, funded by Royal Holloway University of London and focusing on how leaders can improve wellbeing for television workers in the UK.
For enquiries regarding working with Teale, please use the contact page.
Teale earned a postgraduate master's degree in Film and Media at The New School for Social Research in New York City, producing and directing 16mm films, digital shorts, and crewing on numerous other independent films whilst presenting academic papers at media conferences on film theory and semiotics, applying Lacanian psychoanalysis to film and photography theory. She has also taught film and video production and editing at The New School, The Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts, The Connecticut School of Broadcasting, and BRIC Media Education. She has consulted at Princeton University and Monroe College.
In New York City, Teale has directed, produced and commissioned television programmes at Brooklyn Independent Media whilst also serving as the Technical Director of the production department. Her commissions focused on up-and-coming comedy web series, diversity in representing marginalised communities, and social justice particularly in equal rights, LGBT+ visibility and housing.
As a producer/director/shooter/editor, Teale works with clients such as Lincoln Center, Tom Tom Magazine, Robin Cloud Comedy, Retrofret Vintage Guitars, Verge NYC Fashion Week, Enterprise Sales Meetup, Pratt Institute, and many independent clients. If that sounds like an eclectic list, it is. She has varied interests (don't dangle anything shiny in front of her).
With years of managerial experience in production companies, television stations and educational institutions, Teale is committed to overhauling the typical management model to focus on employee wellbeing, shared and authentic leadership, community enrichment and environmental protection through healthful business missions and methodologies which also increase productivity and profit. In 2020, Teale earned an MBA with Distinction from The University of Edinburgh and was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for graduating first in the programme as well as the Somewhere LGBT+ Scholarship for demonstrated commitment to making a positive difference to the LGBT+ Community. Her capstone was on leading creative teams in the British television industry, focusing on how inclusion and wellbeing produces profit and sustainability. In addition, Teale has certifications from the London Business School and The University of Edinburgh in Progressive Management and Social Wellbeing respectively. It's true, treating people well actually benefits companies and communities! Who would have thought!? (Teale did, Teale thought it - oh who am I kidding, I'm writing this - I did, I thought it...)
In her spare time, Teale enjoys playing in Irish sessions and Scottish pipe bands including giving drumming lessons and heading the drum corps, marketing, booking and social media for Kings County Pipes & Drums, an inclusive bagpipe and drum corps she co-founded in 2012. She has frequently participated in Media Studies alumni panels at The New School and conducted regional admissions interviews for Vanderbilt University whilst representing her alma mater at college events. Teale gets excited about plant based and gluten free cooking and likes to experiment with making healthful versions of traditional comfort foods. Other interests include Brutalist architecture, surrealist art, Kubrick films, hill/moor-walking, and travel. But most of the time, she's writing ridiculous sketch comedies in her head. She can't help it.
Teale aims to create and help others create media that entertains, educates and inspires people to make the world a better place...and hopefully make people laugh along the way. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts, funded by Royal Holloway University of London and focusing on how leaders can improve wellbeing for television workers in the UK.
For enquiries regarding working with Teale, please use the contact page.
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