Screenwriters – SMA TALENT

We’re working with a very interesting list of writers, some new talent and some more established ones and will be further developing this sector.

Dougie BRIMSON

After 18 years in the Royal Air Force, including tours in the first Gulf War and the Falklands, Dougie Brimson’s writing career took off with the overnight success of Everywhere We Go, based on his experiences as a football casual, which remains a seminal work on the culture of football hooliganism. His first move into […]

Fergus O’CONNELL

Fergus O’Connell is one of Ireland’s foremost writers and his first novel Call the Swallow (Collins Press) was described by The Irish Times as ‘better than Schlindler’s List, and was shortlisted for the 2002 Irish Fiction prize and nominated for The Sunday Independent Novel of the year. He’s recently completed a screenplay based on his […]

Nicholas Mark HARDING

Nicholas Harding’s’ latest feature is Folie à Deux directed by Sean Martin for 891 Filmhouse, which premiered in 2014 at the Maine International Film Festival. Credits also include Notebooks of Cornelius Crow, which was screened at several international film festivals including Cannes. He created the story for the Hollywood film The Brazen Bull which was […]

Cassiah JOSKI-JETHI

Award Nominated Writer After graduating from the University of Birmingham with a 1st Class Honours degree, Cassiah began her career working for writer/director Gurinder Chadha OBE after a chance meeting on a train. Cassiah worked alongside Gurinder for a year on projects such as ‘Bend It Like Beckham the Musical’ and ‘Viceroy’s House’, being mentored by Gurinder in the process. […]

John LANGRIDGE

John Langridge’s acclaimed debut short, ‘Walking Shadows’, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently selected for the Portbello Film Festival, “the biggest celebration of independent film in Europe”. John was writer, director and producer for Big H Films. He later wrote, directed and edited ‘Away’, a drama short for Twenty Three Pictures. He […]

Mark LAW HITCHINGS – Screenwriter

Mark is currently developing a number of new projects including a mini series set in 1925 Venice, Palazzo Rezzonico; a documentary series, À La Carte about the world’s best restaurants, chefs and restaurateurs; The Lightning Field, a series about art, crime and politics, a comedy series Wired about the record business, and Banditry & How to […]

Paul Murdoch – Screenwriter & Novelist

Paul’s 2018 novel ‘Sunny” about sectarianism and racism has been promoted by The Scottish Book Trust and local authorities in Scotland as a centrepiece for discussion workshops in schools, libraries and festivals that address these still damaging social issues. A number of charities and newspapers also picked up and promoted the book: “Sunny is a […]

Nick OLDHAM – Crime Novelist

Nick Oldham has written 29 crime novels including 24 in the highly addictive and compelling Henry Christie police procedural crime series which he’s now developing into a tv series starting with Nightmare City. The first Henry Christie novel appeared in 1996 while Nick was still a serving police officer in the Lancashire Constabulary, to be […]

Roger A. PRICE – Crime Novelist & Screenwriter

Roger Price spent over 30 years in the Lancashire Police Force, the Regional Crime Squad and the National Crime Squad before leaving to concentrate fulltime on writing crime novels. He retired with the rank of Detective Inspector in charge of a covert unit in Lancashire concentrating on breaking up the gangs selling heroin, crack cocaine […]

Simon BLAKE – director/writer

Director and writer Simon Blake’s first feature Still starring Aidan Gillen, Jon Slinger, Elodie Yung and Amanda Mealing opened in the UK in 2015 at The Regent Street Cinema London and in Ireland at The Irish Film Institute. It won Best First International Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2014 and Simon also won […]