Victoria is passionate about the innovation, intimacy and access of smartphone filmmaking. She recently completed Motherboard , an award winning smartphone feature documentary, which she filmed, directed and edited. Motherboard charts the joy, pain and comedy of raising her son Jim alone. Over 20 years, Victoria recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs-up he gave her during her first pregnancy scan to his first day at college. Victoria explores a life where both she and Jim survive her breast cancer diagnosis, two generations of absent fathers and Jim’s rollercoaster teen years.

‘Motherboard’ had its world premiere at CPH:Dox in Copenhagen, where it received a four-star review by Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian.  The film had its cinema release in summer 2025, playing in over 70 cinemas in the UK and Ireland and receiving extensive media coverage. In 2025 , Motherboard received a  Grierson nomination for Best Cinema Documentary , three nominations at the 2025 BIFA Awards and was included in the Guardian's Best Films of 2025.

Motherboard builds on a decade of smartphone shorts. In 2015, Victoria wrote, filmed and directed ‘160 Characters’ a smartphone short for Film London. Shot entirely on an iPhone 6, ‘160 Characters’ brings to life the secrets buried in a vintage Nokia. When the film launched online it received a Vimeo Staff pick.

In 2017, Victoria wrote, filmed and directed 'Missed Call' which was the first commissioned short film to be shot on the iPhone X. ‘Missed Call’ explores her son's decision to reconnect with his absent father. ‘Missed Call’ won Best Short Form Programme at the 2019 BAFTAs and Best Documentary Short at  The 2019 Broadcast Digital Awards..

Over the last three decades Victoria has experimented with new technologies and new platforms to build new audiences. In 2019, she was awarded an  EPSRC Immersive Documentary Encounters Commission, to create a VR project which told the story of her breast cancer (as patient and film-maker) The Waiting Room VR premiered at the  76th Venice International Film Festival and won  IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling  This multi platform project also includes a 30 minute smartphone short film which premiered on The Guardian website in 2019.

In 2021 Victoria wrote and directed, ‘Testing Times’ an immersive audio experience which features over 50 hours of phone calls and voicemails, with friends, family and doctors, capturing the challenges of multiple lockdowns. ‘Testing Times’ premiered at IDFA in 2021. In Spring 2022 it was showcased at The True/False Arts Festival in Ohio and in 2023 and was part of a BFI Expanded showcase celebrating the work of women and non binary directors working in XR.

In 2024, Victoria won The Women in Film and TV Director Award. This award recognises outstanding achievement by a woman director in film, TV or digital media within the last two years. Victoria is also Professor of Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and is also a member of BAFTA and BIFA