BFI LFF 2025

Originally from Lisbon, Susana Exton-Mota is a London-based Hair & Make Up Designer working in film, TV drama and commercials for the past two decades. Some of her notable design credits include the feature Drift starring and produced by the Oscar-Nominated Cynthia Erivo and directed by Anthony Chen (which premiered at Sundance), BBC Three’s BAFTA winning Juice starring and created by Mawaan Rizwan, the feature Ish directed by Imran Perretta.

Features include Andrew Haigh’s BIFA winning and BAFTA nominated All Of Us Strangers, which premiered at Telluride and stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, H is for Hawk directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, Francis Lee’s Ammonite starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan and Sebastian Leilo’s Disobedience starring Rachel Weisz. TV drama includes period drama The Gallows Pole for the BBC and director Shane Meadows. Sarah has also worked with directors including Craig Roberts, Tony Grisoni, John Maclean, Sara Dunlop and Peter Strickland.

Drama includes Red Riding ’83 directed by Anand Tucker, Sky’s I Hate Suzie starring Billie Piper and the Amazon Original drama The Collection directed by Dearbhla Walsh. Feature Documentary Broken English, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, received it’s World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2025. With director Sheree Folkson, Alison designed period drama The Scandalous Lady W starring Natalie Dormer and also the feature The Decoy Bride. Other directors include Dave Meyers, Sophie Muller and Aaron Stoller.