WRITER | AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIA MITCHELL | TOWTON AUDIO PODCAST

Commission: an audio interview with USA’s first female professor of astronomy (d. 1888)

 

GOODBYE GAMMA 45 | FESTIVAL OF THE FLEETING WORDS

Commission: A 24-hour theatre challenge to write a 10-minute play which was then performed online.  Now developed into a sci-fi TV series.

WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, MAMA?  | AUDIO DRAMA | TOWTON AUDIO PODCAST

Commission: an original 48-minute historical drama. Their best-selling podcast.

PUT AWAY | SHORT FILM |HURCHEON FILMS

A 10-minute historical monologue. Proof of concept for feature. Alice also directed and produced. Selected for festivals in the UK, Europe and USA.

Winner: Best Editing, Best Short Foreign Language Film, Best Social Awareness Film, Best Actress Jury’s Award, Best Longer Form Monologue, Best Lockdown Film, Best Performances, Award of Exceptional Merit, Best Short Drama, Best of Festival

ODDS | SHORT FILM | HURCHEON FILMS

A 3-minute darkly comic film. Alice also directed and produced.

Selected for many festivals in the UK and USA.

Winner:  Best Thriller (twice). Jury Award. Best Short Horror. Best Horror.

CENTENARY FILM | BEEKEEPING CHARITY FILM | HURCHEON FILMS

Commission: to develop and create a 10-minute charity documentary. Alice also directed this.

Winner: Silver Charity Award, Best Environmental Film, Best Doc Short, plus festival selections and nominations in UK and USA.

THE WAITING ROOM | 1-ACT PLAY | LOST THEATRE COMPANY/HURCHEON PRODUCTIONS

Winner: one of 18 plays in the One Act Play Festival chosen for the Stockwell Playhouse. A 32-minute fantasy drama with a cast of six, directed and produced by Alice on zero budget.

 

HOME TO THE HANGERS | SHORT FILM | HURCHEON FILMS/DIRECTORS UK /ARRI

Commission to create a film about World War 1 poet Edward Thomas as a co-winner in Directors UK/Alexa Challenge. Alice also directed and co-produced this.

Winner 5 awards including Best British Film, Best Director, plus several other nominations.

A SMALL DOT ON THE WESTERN FRONT | THEATRE | HURCHEON PRODUCTIONS

75-minute one-woman show written, directed and produced by Alice at the fringe Tea House Theatre, London. It was 80% full for all four performances. Zero budget. Now developed this into a feature script.

THE PENNY DROPPED | SHORT FILM | HURCHEON FILMS

Created, directing and producing a 6-minute supernatural film.

Winner: 4 awards including Best Short Short plus many nominations and international film festival screenings.

THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW | SHORT FILM | HURCHEON FILMS

Winner of the Prequel to Cannes Short Script Competition. Many festival nominations. Alice also directed this.

NINJA WARRIOR | SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT | PINTSIZE PICTURES/CHALLENGE TV

Commission: to craft “as live” comedy narration for 89 x 23 episodes, re-versioning Japanese/ USA sports comedy entertainment show to a UK format.

COMMERCIAL WRITING ACROSS ALL MEDIA | ONGOING

Conceptual copywriting and scriptwriting on corporate films, public information films, TV and radio commercials, audio visual presentations and exhibitions, live scripted events, press, posters, web, digital, and integrated multi-channel campaigns.

COMPETITION JUDGING

2021 Film Expo South Short Script. Also donated Script Editing to the winning script.

OTHER WRITING:

• Women’s rugby journalist with own column in specialist media (now retired).
• A contributor of film articles and reviews on the online film makers’ site The Spread.
• Short stories and joke books published

RECENT TEACHING

Sessional Lecturer: B.A. Film making at Ravensbourne College “Visual Tools” course

Associate Lecturer: M.A. Screenwriting at the London College of Communication (UAL) running workshop groups for the short film script term as well as industry sessions.

Associate Lecturer: Script Unit. B.A. Film Production. Farnham University of Creative Arts