Hope completed her MFA in filmmaking at Columbia University in New York. Her award-winning thesis film, The Dawn Chorus, was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh, London and many other festivals. Screen International made her a Star of Tomorrow and Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the ‘25 New Faces of Independent Film’. Since her return to the UK, she has made further acclaimed short works for Channel 4, Film London, the UK Film Council, NOWNESS, the Uncertain Kingdom and the National Theatre of Scotland. Her debut feature film The Levelling, produced as part the iFeatures scheme (funded by BBC Films, the BFI and Creative England) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before screening at festivals all over the world. She was awarded the inaugural IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award in Association with the BFI, named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Screenwriter for The Levelling. In 2022 she co-wrote and directed a hybrid film/theatre production of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the National Theatre of Scotland, for which she was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA for Best Director. She is currently in pre-production for a new feature film, Making Noise, about famed Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, starring Morfydd Clark and Hero Fiennes Tiffin.

Hope is a co-founder of Raising Films - a campaign to make the film industry more parent-friendly. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and children.