The Brit List |
2022
An annual list presenting the best of British screenwriting.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Official Selections
MODEL BEHAVIOUR
Official Selection
17 Votes
Television
Comedy
An ambitious young model puts everything on the line to achieve her dream of making it big, only to discover too late that success isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. After being faced with the best and the worst the industry has to offer she must choose to live a lie in the limelight or turn her back on everything she has ever known.
THE HOAX
Official Selection
15 Votes
Television
Drama
A 4-part drama inspired by the true story of the lonely Parisian ambulance driver who faked his own heroic involvement in the 2015 Bataclan attacks, and how the enormous lie unravelled.
LOCO PARENTIS
Official Selection
13 Votes
Feature
Comedy
A dark comedy about a queer Black man in his mid 30s who is desperately searching to find his role in life, grappling with what family means, especially when he falls in with a group of privileged white moms and a baby that isn’t his.
MAN LIKE ME
Official Selection
13 Votes
Television
Sci-fi
In this grounded sci-fi pilot, a small coastal community experiences a wave of unnatural activity when a mysterious stranger arrives in town.
Official Selection
12 Votes
Feature
· Comedy
· 107 Pages
A vibrant and uplifting coming-of-age comedy-drama that captures the spirit of ‘Cool Britannia’, as it follows two sisters’ attempts to attend The Spice Girls’ rumoured final concert. Escaping their strained family life and small town, they set off for London on an adventure-filled quest of scrapes, capers, and conflict set to a soundtrack of 90’s B...
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London, GB
Isaac is a versatile writer-director blending crowd-pleasing and thought-provoking work inspired by his distinctive upbringing. He’s written episodes of SPELLBOUND for Hulu, and his script TWO BECOME ONE made The Brit List 2022 with twelve mentions. His short film TAYLOR won the Emerging Talent Award at the New Renaissance Film Festival. He has dire...
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Without You
Private
Official Selection
12 Votes
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
Keeping it in the family.
No bio available.
NIGHT SHIFTS
Official Selection
11 Votes
Television
Comedy
Joe and Gemma, two strangers to one another, have their lives upended when a mysterious connection is formed between them every time they fall asleep. Night Shifts is a surreal comedy-drama about a universal accident like no other.
IF IT WAS DIFFERENT IT WOULDN'T BE LIKE THIS
Official Selection
9 Votes
Television
Drama
After an incident at a birthday party, best mates Olive, Sorcha and Pamela get a taste for justice, setting off a dangerous chain of events for the boys of a small Essex town and the girls themselves.
STAMFORD HILL
Official Selection
9 Votes
Television
Thriller
Detective Inspector, Yael Rosen, must return to the Hassidic Jewish community and family she left behind 20 years earlier to investigate the murder of a young man in Stamford Hill.
ANONYMOUS
Official Selection
8 Votes
Television
Thriller
William Clarke has no idea how he came to be running for his life in the middle of the night, or why a seemingly normal family would try to bludgeon him to death in the street. He also has no idea why there’s a group of anonymous vigilantes committing increasingly ambitious crimes wearing a mask of his face. “Anonymous” is a gripping crime thriller ...
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LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT
Official Selection
8 Votes
Television
Comedy
A teen psychic may be able to see the future – but her anxiety means she can’t always trust what she sees. Now she has to figure out what she wants to do with her life, whilst juggling school and new love interest Teo, the one thing she didn’t see coming.
SELF
Official Selection
8 Votes
Television
Drama
On the cusp of 30, Eve reflects on her life and how it hasn’t turned out the way she’d imagined. Running away from memories of a trauma she experienced as a teenager, Eve realises she can see, and interact with, her 15 year-old self.
DEBRIS
Official Selection
7 Votes
Television
Thriller
A small Devonshire fishing community’s world is turned upside down when a mysterious boat is found floating out at sea. A character led thriller, shining a light on the world tourists never see in coastal villages and the lengths those who live there will go to to survive.
WONDERLAND
Official Selection
7 Votes
Television
Drama
Based on Juno Dawson’s best-selling YA novels, “Clean,” “Meat Market” and “Wonderland.” A twisted urban fairy tale in which three seemingly unconnected teenage girls are thrown together following the death of a socialite.
DAD JOKE
Official Selection
6 Votes
Television
Comedy
When Joshua, a disabled stand-up comedian finds out his fiancée Jen is pregnant, he’s finally ready to bare his soul onstage in a desperate bid to ‘make it’ before fatherhood hits. But as he throws everything into his hunt for fame, he risks losing his family.
LONG LOST
Official Selection
6 Votes
Television
Drama
Radio presenter Anna is contacted by her estranged sister, Sophie, when their mum unexpectedly sells their childhood home with the body of their abusive father, who they killed when they were teenagers, still hidden inside it.
MOUSE CIRCUS
Official Selection
6 Votes
Television
Comedy
Darkly comic mystery drama about a hotel maid in her 60s with a love of taxidermy who yearns for a Hollywood romance. The only thing standing in her way is her boring husband.
PARADISE
Official Selection
6 Votes
Television
Thriller
“Paradise” is “Search Party” meets Lena Waithe’s “Twenties”: a propulsive, twisty LGTBQ+ thriller touching on wellness conspiracy theories, the growing pains involved with existing in your twenties, and what it means to feel safe and visible as a queer person in the UK, all with a bit of the absurd fun of Knives Out for good measure.
THE KATE RESIGNATION
Official Selection
6 Votes
Television
Comedy
When a downtrodden personal assistant witnesses the murder of her arsehole film director boss, she’ll have to do whatever it takes to survive. Unfortunately, her biggest obstacle may be the long-term boyfriend she was about to dump, who now insists on going on the run with her.
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