My Details
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Great Britain , North West
Current Work Details
- What I do
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I'm a screenwriter, read my scripts (click on "my work & credits" above)
- Company
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Monstrous Productions
- Website
- Where I work
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I run my own company or organisation
- Technical Skills
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I know how to put one word in front of another. (Yes, I write backwards.)
- Resources / Expertise
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Steam-powered laptop - and I'm not afraid to use it
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Shooters Q&A
- Films I wish I had made
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I don't want to have made the ones that are already made. I want to make new ones...
- I cried watching
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Oh don't get me started ... just pass me the tissue box.
- I left the cinema during
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Never ever
- Directors I love
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Ingmar Bergman, The Wachowski Brothers, Joss Whedon, David Koepp, Nicholas Roeg, Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Frears, Tim Burton, Woody Allen, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Clint Eastwood, Steven Speilberg, James Cameron, John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, Terry Gilliam
- Actors I admire
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(In no particular order) Jamie Foxx, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Tom Cruise, Miranda Richardson, Judi Dench, Catherine Deneuve, Julie Christie, Michael Caine (God bless you sir), Woody Allen, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Winstone, Jack Lemmon, Clint Eastwood, Diane Keaton, Julie Walters, Alan Arkin, Zero Mostel, Sharon Stone, Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Johnny Depp, John Travolta, Walter Matthau, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Steve Martin, Richard Dreyfus, Larry, Christian Bale, Robert Downey Jnr, Christopher Walken, Daniel Day Lewis, Charles Bronson, Robert Mitchum, Nick Nolte, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks (can I stop now?)
- Writers I respect
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Joss Whedon, Shane Black, Tony Jordan, Toby Whithouse, Richard Curtis, Russell T Davies, Plater, Pinter, Dennis Potter (a god), Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw - though I respect anyone who can finish a script.
- My desert island discs
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Amarok - Mike Oldfield; All Around My Hat - Steel Eye Span; Beethoven's Eroika; Gregorian Chants; The White Album - The Beatles; 90125 - Yes; Any Schostakovich symphony; Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd; Aerial - Kate Bush; Homogenic - Bjork; Anything by Dusty;
- Books I have given my friends
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"Mister God, This is Anna", I have to keep getting new copies...
- My death row meal
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Fish & Chips
- The best thing I own
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Limited edition print of a painting of Dusty Springfield's eyes
- More about me
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Semi-finalist in the 2008 Red Planet TV Screenwriting competition; Finalist in the 2009 Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival "ScriptMarket" competition; Semi-finalist in 2009 CBBC/Writersroom competition.
My Work & Credits
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Monsters Mini-Pilot
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