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Lorna King is a Ghanaian-Scottish screenwriter, primarily of drama, and a graduate of Screen Academy Scotland.
Her short script EXOTIC won the Glasgow Short Film Festival pitch competition in 2019 and she was selected for the prestigious Less is More Scottish residency 2020 run by Le Groupe Ouest. Her short script HER MIDAS TOUCH was developed as part of the BFI/Screen Scotland Sharp Shorts scheme. It earned several laurels at competition, including reaching the Top Five scripts in the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund 2020 and is due for release this year.
She is one of ITV Studios' Disabled Writers in Development for 2023, developing an original pilot for the network.
In 2022 Lorna wrote an original pilot under commission for Sky as part of the Youngs Film Foundation and delivered her first episode of RIVER CITY.
Lorna is represented by Steven Russell.
Her short script EXOTIC won the Glasgow Short Film Festival pitch competition in 2019 and she was selected for the prestigious Less is More Scottish residency 2020 run by Le Groupe Ouest. Her short script HER MIDAS TOUCH was developed as part of the BFI/Screen Scotland Sharp Shorts scheme. It earned several laurels at competition, including reaching the Top Five scripts in the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund 2020 and is due for release this year.
She is one of ITV Studios' Disabled Writers in Development for 2023, developing an original pilot for the network.
In 2022 Lorna wrote an original pilot under commission for Sky as part of the Youngs Film Foundation and delivered her first episode of RIVER CITY.
Lorna is represented by Steven Russell.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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NEXUS
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Script available.
TV drama. |
A young woman, on the autism spectrum and with a gift for learning languages, is recruited to an MI5 department in need of her unique skills where she unwittingly falls under the wing of a double agent with a hidden remit to find & deport illegal migrants. She is forced her to make a choice about how to protect her own first-generation immigrant community members from inside the same department she is now a part of...
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DELIVER ME
(writer) |
Script available.
TV drama. |
The life of a Scottish midwife painfully unravels when, upon discovering her husband’s affair, she makes a terrible mistake.
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YAAYA: KING OF WAR
(writer) |
Script available.
Feature. |
An ancient West African princess must fight for her late father’s throne in order to rule a deeply patriarchal warrior society.
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CREDITS
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THE WEDDING
(writer) |
BBC Studios.
TV short monologue. |
Episode 1; "2nd Best Man". (2022)
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RIVER CITY
(writer) |
BBC Studios.
TV drama. |
1 x episode commission. (2022-)
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HER MIDAS TOUCH
(writer) |
Completed.
Short film. |
An emotionally fragile teen girl with the power to drain emotions from others is hired by a rich family for a funeral.
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