The Writers Lab UK & Europe |
2021
A six-month script-development programme for feature/pilot scripts by women/non-binary screenwriters over 40 in the UK & Europe.
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Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
When a young woman forced into domestic slavery in London discovers her long-lost sister is being held by a gang of human traffickers, she must race against time and her own captors to mount a rescue
London, GB
Sylvia-Anne’s journey to screenwriting began as a script supervisor working with directors Danny Boyle, Cary Fukunaga, Kenneth Branagh, Yorgos Lanthimos and Nia DaCosta. She enjoys creating stories helmed by women of color who have a strong sense of purpose and identity.
A Fellow of the Sundance Episodic Program, Sylvia-Anne has developed a ho...
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Black Dust
Private
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 94 Pages
A Chinese woman searching for her missing husband as she tries to hold her family together slowly comes to terms with the fact she never really knew the man she had married.
No bio available.
Is This It?
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
When four frustrated middle-aged women, all on the cusp of cracking up, are forced together on a kooky self-help programme, they detest one another, but as they confront their own neuroses, they realise just how much they need each other.
No bio available.
Mozart's Don Jane
Private
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
Faced with the possibility of never singing again after transitioning into a man, a famous soprano is forced to face demons of the past to find his new voice.
London, London, GB
Originally from New Zealand, I've lived in London for 15 years. I worked as an actress and singer for 20 years before turning to writing full time in 2015. I graduated with a Master’s degree in Screenwriting from London Film School in 2018. My passion is creating the type of emotionally challenging, strong roles for women that I would have liked t...
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My Boy
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 69 Pages
When her teenage son is accused of rape, health visitor, Lorna is torn between her boy and her beliefs.
Glasgow, GB
No bio available.
Winner
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 36 Pages
A misfit teen with a painful new superpower pits herself against
ancient Celtic magic on a quest to discover why she’s been cursed.
Derry - Londonderry, Northern Ireland, GB
Writers Lab UK & Ireland 2021 winner, one of the BBCs, Belfast Voices, 2020. Contributing writer on 'Quick Comedy' sketch show (BBC Radio Ulster). Shortlisted for NI Screen New Writer Focus, 2023.
Selected for The Women's List, 2024. Shortlisted for Stowe Story Lab Connemara fellowship in 2024. Selected for ‘The Residency’ feature film incubator,...
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One Last Holiday
Private
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
Rivers and rapids, friction and families – an Anglo-Iranian family embark on a canoe trip in France, but will this be their last holiday ever?
No bio available.
Return Her
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 30 Pages
A Māori Rhodes scholar vows to take down an aristocratic English family when they refuse to stop exploiting her ancestor's image. Today she’s taking back the painting … tomorrow she’s coming for their stately pile.
London, London, GB
No bio available.
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
On the cusp of settling down with her perfectly OK boyfriend, a woman plunges into a wild journey of Jewish Queer family discovery, guided by her 7-year-old gay- as-hell self and her hilarious, furious grandmother.
London, GB
Rachel is a multi award-winning writer for stage/screen. She grew up as the only gay in a British/Jewish family that attempted to balance English proptiety with Yiddishe volume.
Awards for her stage work in the UK include the Total Theatre Award and The Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award at the Barbican.
Her TV script SLACKS was selected for the ...
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SOLAS
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 50 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
Robertstown, Kildare, IE
Screenwriter. Runner. Dog wrangler. Human potato.
Lydia is an Irish-born screenwriter with a love for writing (and subverting) genre
She sold a contained feature horror script in 2020 and has optioned an Ireland-based sci fi TV series to a production company
-2022 Series Lab Hamburg participant
-2021 Writers' Lab UK & Ireland participant
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The Story of Me and You
Private
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
When a disgraced, alcoholic doctor meets a pregnant teenager suffering from domestic abuse, they embark on a relationship that could lead to the redemption or death of them both.
No bio available.
Finalists
A MURDER OF CROWS
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
The principal of a private girl's school learns that charity begins not at, but with the home when a member of the travelling community wins a diversity scholarship.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 46 Pages
When Ben Johnson's Deaf father, Winston, faces deportation, Ben embarks on an identity journey to emerge as Yaaba Anokye, the Deaf barrister.
Dorking, Surrey, GB
Kerena is a Deaf, Iranian producer/writer/director who explores human rights and human emotions in her dramas. She often writes in BSL, a language with no written form and translates into English. An award winning producer/director.
Finalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 60 Pages
LOGLINE: In a two stoplight town plagued by drought, the dried-up husks of men start to appear. When the local Sheriff investigates, she encounters a bi-racial Maya girl (15) who is haunted by a centuries old curse.
LITZA is a multi-hyphenate who has produced work on stage, screen, mountains and galleries. She grew up in Mexico until 5. Then attended school in the American Southwest. She spent her adulthood in the UK, where she crafted movement and action for many iconic films. She writes genre pieces about what happens when worlds collapse – socially, poli...
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DIRT
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 89 Pages
Hertfordshire, England 1890, shooting season. Set against the background of a shooting party and the shadow of a serial killer, poachers and gamekeepers align. Identical twins, ALBERT and EBENEZER FOX, head the infamous FOX GANG - a band of poachers and desperados living in the woods. When Albert is arrested for a crime he did not commit, it falls u...
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London, GB
Some of Simone's writing includes: Monkeys’ Blood (winner of BBC Northern Ireland NIFTC for Northern Lights) , The Muse (starring Ben Whishaw), backed by the BBC, nominated for Best Short at Danny Boyle's Shuffle FF. Simone's original feature (co-written with Adrian Dunbar) is in development with NIS. Simone is currently writing EL DUENDE, an ori...
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DYSPHORIA
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 105 Pages
Upended by a cancer scare and menopause, MARIA DEANE embarks on a chaotic road trip to her ex-husband’s wedding with her transgender daughter and teenage son- a journey which will transform them all.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
The true story of Rose Dugdale, British aristocrat, Irish revolutionary and the greatest art thief of all time
Dublin, Dublin, IE
No bio available.
Great Swingford - Episode One 'Shock'
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
When city Psychotherapist Sandy is orphaned, she inherits a coveted English manor and 400acres. For the black adopted child of white parents, this quintessential English dream, is a nightmare.
No bio available.
Green Lanes
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 53 Pages
Top Boy meets Big Little Lies in the back-alleys of north London. Three ethnically diverse femmes fatale are drawn into a turf war between criminal gangs. Yuppie PR girl Leni, Kurdish housewife Sheniz and DC Cherish Onyeka unearth devastating secrets, while burying others, risking everything to tame the men who keep them in a stranglehold.
No bio available.
Invisible
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 51 Pages
A doctor must fight to the death when she discovers her isolated town is
the petri dish for a drug trial that makes older women vanish – and she is
part of the experiment.
London, Greater London, GB
A fighter pilot’s daughter, Carolyn grew up air force. Fourteen houses later, she can pack a suitcase at Mach 2 and often writes about identity and home. She won the WGC's 2022 Sondra Kelly Award, is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist and selection of the 2020 Meryl Streep Writer’s Lab. Embracing genres from sci-fi to doc, she also wrot...
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MCINTYRE
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 61 Pages
A no-nonsense woman returns to an all-nonsense town.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
Five completely broke and single 50-something strangers at the end of their rope in an ageist economy, have no option but to live together in a houseshare like 20-somethings, but will they survive and thrive or crash and burn?
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 113 Pages
When a grieving young couple move from one side of the world to another to begin a new life, little do they know their new home is haunted by malevolent spirit, who has waited one hundred years to get their revenge.
Jaye L Swift who writes for stage and screen won the Gold Award for The Girl in the Window in the 2016 International Page Screenwriting Awards, and recently became a finalist in the The Writers Lab UK &Ireland 2021.
A short script produced in 2014 by It’s My Shout was shown on BBC Wales and Jaye’s WW1 film Letters Home won Best Welsh Short at the ...
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Semifinalists
Ark
Semifinalist
Feature
Sci-fi
No logline available.
DARKEN SHIP
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 97 Pages
When a major fire threatens to sink her warship out at sea, Navy Officer Beth Hart is forced to sacrifice four firefighters to save the rest of the crew. Later, on the desolate ship in port, Beth is attacked by 'ghostly' assailants. As she battles for her sanity and her life, she discovers who was responsible for the fatal fire...someone who would n...
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No bio available.
Death Nell
Semifinalist
Television (One-hour)
Drama
No logline available.
Faithless
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 36 Pages
A leading scientist ends up on the run when she finds proof that God exists in a world where religion is outlawed.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 29 Pages
Polly, a wild and fairly dishonest party animal, has taken on the headship of a small, suburban primary school named St. Mary’s. During the series she unwittingly becomes a feminist icon whilst being incapable of the role.
London, London, GB
Tara has written over 100 episodes of UK TV, a ten minute short and a book. She believes it is possible to write comedy and drama. Her half hour comedy HEAD was recently a semi finalist on the The Writers Lab UK. She is currently writing a drama series and a novel.
MORAG
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 34 Pages
Morag - a Scottish female truck driver returns to work after the death of her grown up daughter and confronts grief by living on the edge of her danger. But getting back on the road to freedom isn't easy with her elderly father and teenage grand-daughter at home to care for.
No bio available.
Rewind
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
After suffering a break down, Ivy Ballentine falls down a mysterious hole and is transported back to 1994 where she attempts to alter the future by correcting a mistake from her past.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 122 Pages
Through a string of mishaps with married men, unexpectedly becoming her estranged father's caretaker and losing her status at work, a disillusioned estate agent finds her true self amidst life's unpredictable and often absurd curve balls.
London, GB
Emily's work includes feature film CARMILLA, starring Jessica Raine and Tobias Menzies, was nominated for the MICHAEL POWELL AWARD for BEST BRITISH FEATURE and was nominated for the Gold Hugo Award at Chicago Film Festival. Her previous feature films include LOVE IS THICKER THAN WATER, starring Johnny Flynn and Juliet Stevenson, won BEST DIRECTOR in...
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Shelf Life
Semifinalist
Television (Half-hour)
Comedy
No logline available.
Skin Deep
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
You might not see (skin) colour but love sometimes only runs skin deep
- an iconoclastic, hour long, returnable drama about race, racism and relationships
À la The Affair meets The Slap
No bio available.
The Punch
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Action
· 104 Pages
A boxer has 24 hours between her weigh-in and big fight to rescue her baby daughter from the local mafia, corrupt police, and her blackmailing coach. Inspired by real events.
Radstock, Somerset, GB
Working class, albeit part of the nonworking class due to long term disability....
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 87 Pages
Confronted with the sudden illness of her estranged mother, a tenacious refugee worker must face her fears about motherhood as she grapples with both an unexpected pregnancy and an unexpected past.
Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, GB
francesca is a bilingual Italian writer transplanted to the remote North York Moors, where she battles wild rabbits and inner demons that feed her film & TV scripts, across genres. Refugee parents and generational trauma inspired her writing journey which she started with an MA in Film (Screenwriting) decades after a Cornell degree. She is also a Me...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 62 Pages
Two strangers conspire to avenge the death of their siblings, but one is not telling the truth.
Portsmouth, Hampshire, GB
Carol is an award-winning writer of theatre, film & TV and a published playwright. She has worked as a writer on an Emmy award-winning TV show and has recently had her eighth short film produced/distributed. She is currently developing a TV Thriller and a Children's series.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
When his estranged father turns burglar to reveal a Deep State information war, this self-made billionaire has a choice, does he walk away or blow it all and start a fire in a one-horse town that will burn through the secret corridors of power?
No bio available.
The Wingspan of an Albatross
Semifinalist
Feature
Drama
No logline available.
Tuesday
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
When Tuesday, a young non-binary homeless person, witnesses a terror attack on Brixton’s Windrush Square that they’re more involved in than they first admit, they must confront the lives who will be impacted, and revisit the story they’ve always told about their own past.
No bio available.
Untold Story of the Rebel Muslim Women
Semifinalist
Television (Half-hour)
Drama
No logline available.
UP YOURS!
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
Girls like Marian Elliott should be seen but not heard so she creates punk alter ego Poly Styrene who refuses to be quiet. But when the mainstream media focus on her image over her ideas, Poly wonders if anyone is really listening. She loses her grip on reality, is admitted into a psychiatric unit, ultimately propelling her out of the limelight - wh...
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No bio available.
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