SCRIPTS
Nominated for best screenplay
Screenplay - Short/TV Pilot
Plenty of Fish
written by Thomas Lewis
Arthur realises that his pet fish is his reincarnated ex-girlfriend, Marin, and attempts to rekindle their relationship. However, he soon remembers why they parted.
Unseen
written by Marcella H. Smith
Unseen follows a day and night in the life of a child living with parental alcoholism. While her mother battles addiction, withdrawal, and fear of social services, the daughter maintains the household—cooking, cleaning, attending school, and managing adult responsibility with quiet precision.
At school, she is praised for being “mature.” At the local off-licence, kindness replaces accountability. No one intervenes because she causes no disruption. The film ends without rescue, reflecting the lived reality of many children whose competence masks crisis.
Cipher
written by Thomas Jackson
During the COVID lockdowns, as gang wars erupt from the streets of Britain to the villas of Spain and the cartel strongholds of Dubai, a determined NCA detective fights to hold back the bloodshed. Unaware that French authorities have secretly hacked EncroChat, the encrypted network binding the underworld together, setting the stage for the biggest criminal takedown in history.
Hunt for The Hare
written by Helen Rana
synop
Shopping For Grandma's Last Bed
written by Shevonne Merchant
British-Caribbean women facing terminal illness, is confronting the end of her journey. In a unconventional move she recruits granddaughter to accompany her on a shopping trip for a casket.
Crowley
written by Connor Jareth Horn
Aleister Crowley has always been a strong academic. His academia takes him to try and answer the secrets of the world and in doing so has lead him to lead a double life. The other life is one full of dangers as he learns to become a magician and occultist. The more he experiences and tries to understand that world the more that world unleashes chaos upon London. As this darkness spreads Crowley and those around him gets drawn deeper in no matter how much they try to keep it at bay. This particular supernatural chaos and horror is something Crowley has never seen creating a web of murder and intrigue. He must work fast to unravel the mysteries and what the end goal is before its too late if he has any shot of saving his city even if that means playing with his own darkness and embarrassing the more taboo aspects of the supernatural if he has any chance of survival and destroying the horrors hidden.
The Lantern Man
written by Tim Cullingworth-Hudson
In 1992, unexplained power disturbances and missing children unsettle the rural English town of Greyfen. When detective David Thorn is forced onto leave following a psychological breakdown, his teenage son and his friends make a terrifying discovery in the marshes. Refusing to accept the town's official explanation, they uncover a link between unexplained deaths, electrical phenomena and a centuries-old entity known only as The Lantern Man.
Complicated
written by Richard J. Reda
A 25-year-old wound care nurse falls for a 39-year-old single mother, but her 20-year-old daughter has been orchestrating everything — vetting him at 3 AM, building their bond through museums and inside jokes, then refusing to let him disappear when the relationship with her mother ends, revealing that the most profound love story was never the romance. COMPLICATED is a seven-episode limited series set across Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island over fourteen months. It is a love story — just not the one it appears to be.
The Funeral List
written by Stefania Aronica
Devastated by the diagnosis of terminal cancer, Kate, 25, refuses to let her story be defined by illness alone, she takes matters into her own hands, convincing her best friend Anna, that organising her own funeral might actually be a good idea. What follows is a bittersweet journey where grief and humour collide, and laughter becomes the only way to survive the spiral of emotions. Because, after all, friendship is what carries us through the unimaginable.
Bad Habits
written by Isobel Baker
Katherine, a lusty young noblewoman, is sent to a Roman convent and soon discovers that this house of God has an alarming mix of the devout, the corrupt, and the dangerously horny.
Third Time's the Charm
written by Hannah Rachel Richardson
After a horrific first day on the job, a rookie executioner is forced to relive his past failures again and again.
Jasper Jones - Whatever happened to Norman?
written by Paulie Michael
Birmingham's number one paranormal investigator Jasper Jones has to embark on his most bizarre expedition so far.
When his genetically engineered lab rat Norman suddenly falls ill Jasper has to travel across seas to Colorado to extract the cure from the elusive pink Bigfoot!
With help from his trusty cyborg RAD keeping an eye on things in the lab Jasper sets off.
Will he find Bigfoot? Will he make it back in time to save Norman? And what obstacles will he have to overcome to find this elusive cure?
Screenplay - Feature Film
The Unsung Hero
written by Ken C Hewski
In the relentless mud of the Hürtgen Forest, Corporal Samuel A. Jackson, a Black medic in a segregated unit, risks everything to save men trapped beyond enemy lines. Despite impossible conditions — shattered terrain, no reinforcements, and a commanding officer more concerned with reputation than lives — Samuel refuses to wait for permission to be human.
Restaurant la Vérité
written by Benn Flore
A violin-playing, homeless three-star chef lost everything in a fire. Now he and his 12-year-old Black protégé eat tasteless scraps from the garbage bin of a neighboring restaurant. What would life look like if he could secretly tempt the restaurant into making better food?
Brass Monkeys
written by John Mountford
Brass Monkeys follows Sherry Carter, a fearless ex-con navigating her first day of freedom after killing her abusive husband. As old enemies close in and her criminal sons circle back into her life, Sherry settles scores and prepares to leave town for good - determined to survive, on her own terms.
Brothers' Cove
written by Hugo André
Set in wartime Britain in 1945, and told through the perspective of a quiet, introspective boy named Theo, Brothers’ Cove follows two brothers who escape an orphanage in search of freedom and sanctuary, finding temporary solace in an abandoned seaside cottage - until strangers return and tragedy strikes, propelling the younger brother into a haunting journey of survival, grief, and self-discovery.
Romcom Reject
written by Stuart Berry
Rose always believed she’d find true love like it's portrayed in a romcom — but life never followed that script. When the romcom is staged for her, Rose falls for the fantasy instead of the man. Lies snowball, promises are made, and suddenly she can no longer run away from the truth. An anti‑romcom about longing, self‑deception, and the danger of falling in love with the fantasy.
Princes In The Blood
written by Shamsi Alilova
Inspired by true events and real historical figures.
Following King Edward IV’s death, his young sons, Edward and Richard, are held in the Tower while awaiting their uncle Richard III’s coronation. On the eve of the ceremony, the princes vanish without a trace.
Fearing blame, Richard tasks his ally, the Duke of Buckingham, with finding them. Richard’s wife, Anne Neville, seeks the truth, while Lady Margaret Beaufort, a Lancastrian matriarch, secretly plots against him, persuading her allies that Richard is responsible.
Walker's Game
written by Luke Ollerton
Robert returns to the woodland trails he once shared with Nicole, following a series of instructions she left behind. What begins as a deeply personal journey through their memories takes a darker turn when he encounters Walker, a calm and manipulative stranger who seems to know far more about Robert than he should.
As Walker’s psychological games intensify, memory and reality begin to blur, forcing Robert deeper into a past he has spent years trying to escape. To survive, he must confront not only the man hunting him, but the truth he’s been running from.
My Sister and I
written by Sean-Paul Thomas Cairns
Two teenage sisters growing up under the tutelage of their domineering, monstrous father in the secluded Scottish highlands slowly begin to push back, with unexpected consequences when they discover the remains of their estranged mother, whom they always believed had abandoned them at birth.
Behind the Door
written by Will O'Donnell
6 people get terrorized at a rural farmhouse in England by an escaped mental patient, but things aren't really what they seem.
Deepview
written by Richard Bagshaw
When Annabel Brackett is found murdered in her home — her death is filmed in immersive 3D and uploaded to millions of viewers before police arrive — Detective Inspector Malcolm Hammond is drawn into an investigation that exposes something far darker than a single killing. The technology behind the broadcast is DeepView, a revolutionary capture system built by visionary CEO Nathan James. The murders are content. The audience is complicit. And someone is steering both.
Indian Pursuit
written by Andrew Hindle
Birmingham, 1990 – Susan and Marcus are two very unlucky people in love who meet by chance at a party but Susan leaves before Marcus has a chance to ask her out. Marcus goes in pursuit but discovers that Susan has gone to India to find answers to life and love. Marcus, who has never been further than Spain, is persuaded to follow her, where everything possible goes wrong.
Escape From Camp Lazarus
written by Mark Goshorn Jones
After their best friend is shipped off to an ex-gay conversion camp in the spring of 1995, two high school seniors skip school and launch a rogue rescue mission to break him out.
