LFA Summer Short Course Graduates Celebrate Release of Sci-Fi Comedy Feature Film in UK Cinemas

28 March 2025

LFA is proud to celebrate the success of Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare and Hillary Shakespeare, both graduates of our summer short courses, as their new sci-fi mockumentary Time Travel is Dangerous lands in UK and Ireland cinemas today.

Sisters Anna and Hillary graduated from LFA’s summer short course in 2017 and 2012 respectively, and subsequently founded their own production company, Shakespeare Sisters, in 2018 – with no additional film qualifications. Their debut film, Soundtrack to Sixteen, came out in 2020, with their sophomore feature, Much Ado, landing in 2022.

Anna reflects on her and her sister’s post-LFA journey:

Hillary and I started our company in 2017 together as sisters but we actually both attended LFA in different years. Hillary in 2012, right before we made our first film, Soundtrack to Sixteen, and me in 2017 – that reflects our age gap, Hillary is a little older! She had such a good experience and made great friends, so she told me to go and do the same. We’d been making films together for a while at this point but I remember LFA was my first time shooting on film and that was really exciting.

Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare

Anna and Hillary subsequently co-produced and co-wrote Time Travel is Dangerous, along with director Chris Reading.

Time Travel is Dangerous is now playing in over 100 cinemas, and got a four-star review in The Guardian, which called it a “charmingly fun” film that “comes close to outrunning its influences”.

Anna describes the film in her own words:

The film is about two women who run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill, when they stumble across a Time Machine they use it to steal things from the past to sell in their vintage shop. It’s a very silly, rather bonkers comedy centred around the two women who really own that shop (Cha Cha Cha you can go and visit it) and are playing themselves with an ensemble cast of comedy greats like Johnny Vegas, Sophie Thompsons and Stephen Fry - you can even catch a Brian Blessed cameo as the Octopus!

Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare

From star-studded cast to Stateside, Anna and Hillary’s US-set next project, The Upside of Unrequited, is now already in post-production and we at London Film Academy can’t wait to see it. Congratulations again to the Shakespeare Sisters.

If you’d like to see Time Travel is Dangerous, you can book tickets to see it at Vue (including our local, Vue Fulham Broadway) here and you can see a full list of cinemas that are showing it here.