The Writers Lab UK & Europe |
2023
A four-month script development programme for features and pilot scripts by women and nonbinary screenwriters 40+ in 5 regions of the UK & Europe.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Honourable Mentions
Body and Soul
Private
Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Action
· 34 Pages
In the midst of a wave of burglaries targeting rich Middle Eastern women in London, the El Nayel family decides to turn to a group of female bodyguards to ensure their women's safety.
No bio available.
Brontë Country
Private
Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Drama
· 66 Pages
A failing filmmaker is sent to her hometown in the Yorkshire Moors to make a true crime documentary about a murder that happened 18 years ago. Once home, she is forced to face and deal with her own long buried trauma.
No bio available.
Dust
Private
Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Thriller
· 50 Pages
Pensioner Yvonne travels to see her estranged daughter Lisa, to discover she is missing, accused of trading in black market opioids. In order to find Lisa she must uncover the web of lies spun by a big pharma company and a dangerous drugs cartel.
London, GB
UK based, Ann brings her years of experience as a documentary director for the BBC, CNN and Channel 4 into her fiction writing. Her script An Austrian Holiday, based on her own family's experience of Alzheimer's, was a Nicholl quarter finalist and selected for The Writer's Lab. She's in post production with her drama short Fly Free a proof of conc...
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Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 67 Pages
When a vindictive environmentalist stumbles upon the origin of our genetic code in an archaeological site at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, she teams up with a misunderstood genius to decipher the secret message written in our DNA and defeat the ancestral beings who want to erase humanity from planet Earth... again.
San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, IT
In the last four decades Francesca has been a dancer, a scientist, and a teacher, but not all those who wander are lost and Francesca found in writing grounded Sci-Fi that sparkle of magic she was looking for. She loves discussing existential stuff with Pallina, her cat, and, despite living in a small village in Tuscany with her husband and daughter...
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Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Thriller
· 59 Pages
After her daughter takes part in an environmental protest a prickly beekeeper struggles to keep her safe when her fellow activists start turning up dead.
Llandysul, Wales, GB
Rachel loves to write about victims of loss existing on the margins of society, whose unique determination propels them forward.
Rachel was short-listed for C21 and Wales Drama Award and received an honourable mention for The Writer's Lab UK and Europe 2023. In 2021 she was mentored by Script Angel founder, Hayley McKenzie.
Invisible
Private
Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Drama
· 66 Pages
Following life-changing injuries in the line of duty, a female detective discovers being disabled is her super-power.
No bio available.
Honourable Mention
Feature
· Historical
· 129 Pages
The lives of two feisty lovers, a widow, a hopeful prisoner, and a stern boy, intertwine in four tales of love and annihilation during the Holocaust. - as told by the researcher whose quest to reconstruct the victims' lives from last letters, eventually destroys her own.
Ollioules, -select-, FR
Tri-national (American, Israeli, French). 1st gen immigrant. Singer-songwriter. Divemaster. Mountain climber. Globe trotter. 2X Nicholl. Austin. Page. Self-taught screenwriter. Mother of 2. Marseille Web Fest. Mentored by Ben Harris and Gabor Krigler at the Midpoint Institute's Writer's Room. Sundance scholarship Crafting Your TV Pilot 2021 mentored...
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Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Drama
· 62 Pages
When her fiancé JONAS disappears from MADS' well-heeled life he takes far more than love, transforming her from rational orthodontist to trail-of-dead avenger hell-bent on hunting him down.
London, GB
On a recent zoom with Damon Lindelof he admitted to me (and a hundred others) that he used a pseudonym for his Nicholl entry, because “God forbid he should be the cliche of a development exec who wants to be a writer”. That’s blown that then. After one of the producers I developed for turned out to be a Ponzi-scheme operator who burned £45million ...
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Quiet Storm
Private
Honourable Mention
Feature
· Drama
· 65 Pages
A murder triggers a series of events which a teenage girl must grapple with head on as the newly appointed head of the family.
No bio available.
THE WALL
Private
Honourable Mention
Feature
· Drama
· 79 Pages
When Evelyn, a middle aged Kleptomania and Rose, a racially uneducated pensioner and her puppy Boris are forced to live together in a rundown bungalow, they soon discover that Aamiina, a streetwise illegal immigrant child, who breaks into their house might be their only salvation.
London, London, GB
I'm a produced and commissioned writer whose films have qualified for Oscar and Bafta festivals including a a script that won an ARRI/DIRECTORS UK award. I have written for Paulette Randell MBE, one of the most influential Black female UK directors. I have few feature scripts in development with production companies and a co-writer credit on a pro...
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Tiny Home
Private
Honourable Mention
Feature
· Comedy
· 105 Pages
Single parent Felix dreams of building tiny homes and Cookie is the man with the power to make that happen, if only she will trust herself enough to let him help.
Dublin, IE
I graduated from Ireland’s National Film School with a First Class Masters in Screenwriting having won the Warner Bros Creative Talent Scholarship. Since then I have written and directed three short films, the most recent of which garnered me a nomination for the Aer Lingus Discover Award 2021 at Dublin International Film Festival.
Young Agatha
Private
Honourable Mention
TV Script
· Adventure
· 36 Pages
"Young Agatha" is a half-hour sizzlin’ teen-whodunnit-whirlwind which follows fifteen-year-old Agatha Christie as she uses her razor-sharp wit and imaginative spirit to solve crimes in coastal Torquay, all while balancing the challenges of teenage life in 1905 and investigating her father’s mysterious death.
Vienna, Vienna, AT
Maria is an award-winning bilingual Vienna-based screenwriter repped by Echo Lake and Berlin Associates. She has done work for Austrian, German, and American production companies and broadcasters. She writes anything as long as it's True Stories, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Murder/Mystery, female-driven or otherwise edgy, offbeat, and bone-dry.
Participants
A Means to an End
Private
Participant
Feature
· Drama
· 90 Pages
Things turn personal for photojournalist Chloe while covering a fracking operation on the Northern Irish border.
No bio available.
Participant
Feature
· Comedy
· 112 Pages
Instead of a returned product packaging employee Sissi (35) finds cash in one of the many boxes taken from the conveyor belt. But cleaning lady Ann (52) and picker Zelda (24) also want a piece of the pie. What seemed to be a perfect solution to all their problems turns out to be a raging nightmare.
Vienna, AT
is a professional screenwriter, theatre director and producer of audio podcasts for Austrias biggest broadcaster ORF. Beside that she is an associate professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and gave a lecture at the Germanic department / Harvard University on "Lost Austrian literature".
CARNAGE
Private
Participant
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
Dawn is middle aged, menopausal and struggling with anger issues. She returns home to her small town in West Cumbria to attend her mother's funeral but finds herself being quickly sucked into the role of "carer" for her remaining relatives, which goes very much against her nature and her wishes!
No bio available.
Participant
TV Script
· Thriller
· 50 Pages
In the near future, a 12-year-old massacre survivor raised alone in the woods arrives in a city only to discover that its residents have cognitively devolved due to carbon exposure.
Christina is a creator and EP from Greece. She has served as story editor, head writer, joined multiple rooms and penned over 60 hours of television.
She holds a BA from Yale University and an Mst in Creative Writing from Oxford University. She is a member of the International Emmys.
Christina is married to a rock singer. She's a mother of two ...
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Participant
TV Script
· Drama
· 36 Pages
When the heiress of a Swiss commodity trading and mining company decides to donate her entire fortune, her good intentions are thwarted by resistance from her own family, media criticism, and opaque processes in the aid sector.
No bio available.
FOROUGH
Private
Participant
Feature
· Historical
· 106 Pages
The woman who set 1950s Iran on fire before being extinguished before her time.
FOROUGH is a story, told backwards and through
flashback, of the short and controversial
life of Iran’s most accomplished modernist female poet.
Forough Farrokhzad, rebel, misfit and feminist icon, fights
to find a way to tell her story in a world not yet ready fo...
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Gharavi is a BAFTA and Sundance-nominated writer/director, focused on delivering authentic stories lensed with an impeccably wrought perspective. Having worked in war zones and in guerrilla filmmaking, Gharavi marries her indomitable spirit with a distinct talent to deliver performances and manage beautifully observed stories. Her feature, I Am Na...
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From Out of Nowhere
Private
Participant
TV Script
· Comedy
· 28 Pages
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Edinburgh, Lothian, GB
Having been a professional playwright in Scotland for over 15 years, Morna has begun to transfer her skills to screenwriting. Her first short film, I Was Here, gained BAFTA Scotland and EIFF nominations for Best Short Film. She was selected for EIFF Talent Lab 2021.
House Winnings
Private
Participant
TV Script
· Other
· 50 Pages
A woman with big artistic dreams escapes her old life to start anew on a party island with a rich past. However, she is confronted with the island's social, political, and spiritual shadow side. Through an age-old shaman and a tenacious investigative journalist, she is called to face her demons and fulfil a grand mission.
No bio available.
Mogi/Suffocate
Private
Participant
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
A new mother, sleepwalking her way through life, escapes into her own paintings by eating them, and she quickly loses sense of who and what is real.
Mared Swain
No bio available.
Prisoners of Love
Private
Participant
TV Script
· Drama
· 27 Pages
A documentary crew invades the lives of two lonely middle-age women to discover that they’re being cheated on by the same Florida death row inmate.
No bio available.
Ria's Room
Private
Participant
TV Script
· Drama
· 47 Pages
A naïve Arab Scottish teen from a strict Orthodox family turns punk provocateur after getting caught in a web of lies trying to protect her best friend.
Glasgow, Scotland, GB
Mim’s scripts fearlessly address taboos from suicide to honour killings. She attracts a wide audience to her productions for the BBC, National Theatre and LUX. She was commissioned by the BBC to create a series of monologues BREAKING POINT, and was part of the IFT/Sony Pictures Creative Corridor. In 2023 she was selected for the Young Films Founda...
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The Comeback Kid
Private
Participant
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
When a runaway is forced to return to the family she abandoned a decade ago, she discovers that reuniting the family risks tearing it apart and that to save her own skin she first has to save theirs.
No bio available.
Participant
TV Script
· Drama
· 32 Pages
An older woman becomes an unlikely spy for Interpol and must take down a drug lord so her son's prison sentence will be commuted.
Spanish Point, Clare, IE
With screenwriting training from UCLA, her work has been selected and showcased at the
BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum twice. Her TV and feature scripts have won a number of
awards including Table Ready My Screenplay and Shore Scripts. In 2020, her play David
Duchovny’s Sperm was chosen for the New Irish Playbook and she made the interview stage...
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Without You
Private
Participant
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
Keeping it in the family.
London
No bio available.
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