Writing Resume: 1994/5 Writer – Published in 2011 The Haar And The Whore A love story in about three parts A Paperback Novel ISBN: 978-1-4653-0116-1 2006 Writer Aliens Don't Make Crop Circles Feature Film Script 120 Minutes 2005 Script Editor The Magic Stones Feature Film Script 120 Minutes Producer: Kourosh Davarkhah White Bird Film Productions Distributor: Buena Vista Kourosh and his three daughters - Shahrzad, Afsaneh and Shahnaz - are all Iranian. My job, as script editor, was to ensure the English dialogue in the film was totally credible. Writer The Big One Feature Film Script 120 Minutes This script went into development with Phil Avalon and a director was attached. However, the director took on another project and Phil’s company was bought out, the option on the script was allowed to expire. 2004 Writer/Director A Different Kind Of Love Short Film Script 5 Minutes Finalist in the Brisbane Film Festival 2004 2001 Co-Writer Shalom Vavara Feature Film Script 120 Minutes Producer: Roger Crago Co-Writer: Daniel James Blank Page Productions Three other writers already had tackled this true story but Roger Crago thought that Daniel and I should look at it again to develop the idea. Warner Bros UK liked it. However, unfortunately, Warner Bros US stipulated that it was a subject that was taboo and should never be produced. 2000 Writer Les Cotswolds Feature Film Script 120 Minutes TV Mini Series 3 x 50 Minutes Novel – Unpublished Producer: Roger Crago Blank Page Productions This started life as a feature film script but Roger thought it worked better as a televisual piece. It exists in all formats but was only developed. I wrote the novel at the same time, one or two chapters ahead of the script to more fully explore the development of the characters, with the intention of a simultaneous publication with the release/broadcast. 1998 Writer The Breadwinners Feature Film Script 120 Minutes Producer: Christine Benson Blue Heaven Productions This piece was commissioned by Christine Benson to explore the redundancy of men in the modern world. Set 25 years into a future where there are machines for heavy lifting, computers for heavy thinking and sperm banks; why would women need men? 1997 Writer Don't get Mad. Feature Film Script 120 Minutes Producer: Christine Benson Blue Heaven Productions This piece was developed to a point ready for production but was shelved when the UK’s Channel 4 announced a project based on the same two, real-life individuals. This is Macbeth set in the modern age. 1996 Writer The Upstairs Waiting Room Play - Two acts - 45 Minutes each Producer: Roger Crago Blank Page Productions Director: Marie Baker This piece was written as a one-act play to overcome writer’s block on another piece and was developed into a two-act piece for a fringe company for production at the Bristol Old Vic. However, it was not staged for reasons outside of my control. 1993 Writer The Incomplete Psychopath A Novel - Unpublished 1991 Writer A Dish Served Cold Feature Film Script 120 Minutes Producer: Paul Sarony HTV International Productions This project was at a very advanced stage of development when shelved. Unfortunately, during the independent television network sell-off HTV had to liquidate HTVI in order to raise the millions required to buy its franchise licence from the British Government, 1989 Director Of Photography (UK) Spinka Feature Film Script 120 Minutes Director/Producer: Richard Griffiths Richard self-funded this film, shot in Bristol and Berlin, and was the pill that hooked me on film making and, in particular, writing.