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Phyllis Bancroft

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Phyllis Toben Bancroft is an award-winning writer, director and producer whose work centers women navigating identity, memory, desire, loss and transformation. Her anthology feature, Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming, brings together four distinct stories about women confronting the forces that have shaped their lives and is available on Prime Video.

Bancroft earned an MFA in Producing from the AFI Conservatory and has built a career across independent film, television and arts education. Her short film ...with salt screened at more than 30 film festivals and received multiple honors, including Best Director from the Black Women Film Network and Best Female Director at the Urban MediaMakers Film Festival. Her additional directing credits include Burned, produced through BET’s Lens on Talent program, and The Merge. She also wrote and produced SPENT, which received $100,000 in production financing through BET.

In addition to her filmmaking work, Bancroft founded The Red Balloon Playroom, where young people created more than 30 short films, and WriteitCrewitShootit!, a creative accountability community for writers and filmmakers. She is a member of the Actors Studio Directors Unit and has participated in residencies including Hedgebrook and La Maison de Beaumont in France.

Bancroft is developing Hide and Seek, a grounded supernatural coming-of-age feature about a 13 year old girl who discovers that her ability to disappear is connected to a hidden ancestral legacy.

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Filmography

Actor

1

Spent Short Film2008Hotel Manager

Director

5

Type

Year

Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming Poster

Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming Feature Film2026

The Merge Poster

The Merge Short Film2024

With Salt Short Film2022

Send Me: An Original Web Series Poster

Send Me: An Original Web Series TV Series2015

Burned TV Movie2011

Producer

7

Type

Year

Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming Poster

Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming Feature Film2026

The Merge Poster

The Merge Short Film2024

Pretty Boy Poster

Pretty Boy Short Film2022

With Salt Short Film2022

Burned TV Movie2011

Spent Short Film2008

Dark Wolf Gang Poster

Dark Wolf Gang Feature Film

Writer

5

Type

Year

Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming Poster

Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming Feature Film2026

The Merge Poster

The Merge Short Film2024

With Salt Short Film2022

Burned TV Movie2011

Spent Short Film2008

Production Manager

2

Multiple Choice Poster

Multiple Choice Short Film2008

Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre! Poster

Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre! Short Film2007

Other Crew

1

Locked Away Poster

Locked Away Feature Film2010

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