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Annabel is a writer/director/editor with a range of short films and extensive experience in digital, documentary and non-fiction.
Her commissioned feature screenplay SKYWARD is in active development with SKIPYARD PRODUCTIONS.
Her most recent short films have screened at over fifty international film festivals including multiple BAFTA and Academy qualifying ones. They have won fifteen awards with a further ten nominations between them.
Annabel frequently explores themes of human sustainability, conservation and social change in both her fiction and non-fiction work.
As well as SKYWARD and several short screenplays, Annabel is working on BEDTIME STORIES (a feature), BOTANICA (a TV Sci-Fi) and THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK (a TV comedy).
Annabel is represented by Steven Russell.
Her commissioned feature screenplay SKYWARD is in active development with SKIPYARD PRODUCTIONS.
Her most recent short films have screened at over fifty international film festivals including multiple BAFTA and Academy qualifying ones. They have won fifteen awards with a further ten nominations between them.
Annabel frequently explores themes of human sustainability, conservation and social change in both her fiction and non-fiction work.
As well as SKYWARD and several short screenplays, Annabel is working on BEDTIME STORIES (a feature), BOTANICA (a TV Sci-Fi) and THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK (a TV comedy).
Annabel is represented by Steven Russell.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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SKYWARD
(writer/director) |
Skipyard Productions.
Commissioned feature. |
Newbury, 1993. A neglected teenager shackled with guilt runs away from her claustrophobic village and emotionally repressed father to join a band of anarchist road protestors who have set up camp in the treetops of her local woodland.
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BOTANICA
(writer/director) |
Script available.
Sci-fi TV drama. |
A plant geneticist discovers that plants have a chemical language, she becomes determined to understand and communicate with them, soon she finds herself being influenced by their subtle messages.
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THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK
(writer/director) |
Script available.
Sitcom. (Web series script available.) |
When urban survivalist and freegan chef, Flax, decided to promote his unusual and extreme life-style on-line, he had no idea he would go viral! Now, with the world watching, he must try to stand by his publicly expressed but not always entirely well thought out ideals.
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THE GIRL IN THE TREE
(writer/director) |
Pre-production
Short film. |
A young girl climbs high into a tree to get away from her evil father. She declares she will never come down. With help from her brother, she manages to keep her word.
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BEDTIME STORIES
(writer/director) |
IN DEVELOPMENT
Comedy feature. |
An antique bed transports a romantic dreamer away from her uptight husband back in time to a more opulent and sexually fulfilling Tudor reality.
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DEAF SPACE
(writer/director) |
Script available.
Short film. (Commissioned as a one-shot film by Little Northern Light and Makelight Productions as part of their LOVE IS HARD WON feature film anthology.) |
A deaf architect student discovers she is pregnant. She wants to keep her baby but is desperate to complete her studies and design buildings with the deaf community in mind. Her boyfriend helps her see that she have her cake and eat it.
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CREDITS
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FLIGHT OF THE SWANS
(writer/director/editor) |
Wax Films.
Feature documentary. |
"Flight of the Swans" follows conservationist and extreme sportswoman Sacha Dench as she flies 7,000 km in a paramotor with migrating swans in a bid to understand their catastrophic decline. This journey takes her over some of our planet’s most inhospitable terrain. She will travel from Russia’s Arctic Tundra, over eleven countries arriving back to the UK.
A conservation publicity stunt that will let her understand in real-time what is causing the swan’s devastating demise. (2021) |
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FED UP
(writer/director) |
Wax Films.
Short film. |
Homeless and hungry, Seymour finds he has a secret benefactor. Filmed for Straight 8. (2021)
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THE LAST OAK
(writer/director) |
Wax Films.
Short film. |
The only surviving soldier of an eco-security force must overcome his inexperience and complete an important mission that will guarantee his future in more ways than one. (2020)
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GRANBAD
(writer/director) |
Wax Films.
Short film. |
A young dyslexic boy inadvertently shows another it isn’t ‘soppy’ to love your family and like spending time with them. (2018)
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SKIP GIRL
(writer/director) |
Wax Films.
Short film. |
A disempowered man stalks an unconventional woman who is taking his stuff from a skip outside his house. What value has she found in the things that his finicky wife has rejected? (2018)
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LETTERBOX
(writer/director) |
Wax Films.
Short film. |
A Muslim girl hitchhikes to Glastonbury Festival to keep a promise to her brother, but why is she wearing her mothers ill fitting niqab? (2014)
CLICK TO VIEW THE TRAILER |
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SPIDER ISLAND
(writer/director) |
Wax Films.
Short film. |
Estranged identical twins fight over a mystical white diamond in this children’s action adventure film that flips between imaginative play and real action. (2011)
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BILLY CONNOLLY: TWO NIGHT STAND
(writer/director) |
Universal Pictures.
Live film. |
The 'Big Yin' performs in front of a live audience for the first time in three years, with footage taken from two gigs during his expletive-littered tour, that casts his usual eye over life, sex and dachshunds. (1997)
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