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Annabel Vine is a writer/director with a range of award-winning shorts and extensive commercial experience.
Her commissioned feature screenplay SKYWARD is in active development with SKIPYARD PRODUCTIONS.
Her three most recent short films, GRANBAD, SKIP GIRL and LETTERBOX, have screened at over forty-eight international film festivals including multiple BAFTA, BIFA and Academy-qualifiers. They have won fourteen awards with a further ten nominations between them.
Annabel is co-writing a sitcom THE ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK in short and long-form and is in pre-production with a new short film THE GIRL IN THE TREE.
Annabel is represented by Steven Russell.
Her commissioned feature screenplay SKYWARD is in active development with SKIPYARD PRODUCTIONS.
Her three most recent short films, GRANBAD, SKIP GIRL and LETTERBOX, have screened at over forty-eight international film festivals including multiple BAFTA, BIFA and Academy-qualifiers. They have won fourteen awards with a further ten nominations between them.
Annabel is co-writing a sitcom THE ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK in short and long-form and is in pre-production with a new short film THE GIRL IN THE TREE.
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) |
IN DEVELOPMENT
Feature. |
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'S 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 STORY
(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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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)
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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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