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NICOLA MILLS
writer & director www.nicolamills.com @CinemaSister  |
Nicola Mills graduated from the National Film and Television School with an MA in Directing Fiction, following an award-winning career as a broadcast designer and director. She wrote her first feature script at the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam 2007.
Nicola was a participant of Guiding Lights 2008-9, mentored by Roger Michell, and wrote feature GREENGRASS in the same year, within the Script&Pitch European advanced script development scheme. She was selected on the Sheffield Documentary Festival initiative ‘Devise to Deliver' with her feature project HANG AND JANE that she developed as a multiplatform piece with her mentor Michel Reilhac.
She is a founding member of Cinesisters and is currently in funded development with her debut feature.
Nicola is represented by Steven Russell.
Nicola was a participant of Guiding Lights 2008-9, mentored by Roger Michell, and wrote feature GREENGRASS in the same year, within the Script&Pitch European advanced script development scheme. She was selected on the Sheffield Documentary Festival initiative ‘Devise to Deliver' with her feature project HANG AND JANE that she developed as a multiplatform piece with her mentor Michel Reilhac.
She is a founding member of Cinesisters and is currently in funded development with her debut feature.
Nicola is represented by Steven Russell.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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UP YOURS!
(writer/director) |
Producers Alex Thiele @ 65 Wilding Films, Astrid Edwards @ Rockmother Films.
Feature script developed with the assistance of the BFI. |
Girls like Marian Elliott are seen but not heard until she creates punk alter ego Poly Styrene who refuses to be quiet. But when the mainstream media focus on her image over her ideas and those closest betray her, Poly is silenced. Determined to be true to herself she walks away from the limelight - but her voice carries further than she could ever imagined, inspiring future generations to gleefully shout UP YOURS!
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BITE
(writer) |
Script available.
TV drama. |
A young man Ryan Redman, AKA Red is drawn into a situation where a young woman is set up, drugged and about to raped; despite knowing how wrong this is, Red does nothing to help her. He is shocked and terrified when the woman turns on her attackers and rips their throats out with razor sharp teeth - before attacking Red. He is badly bitten but escapes with his life but becoming increasingly unwell, at full moon, he painfully transforms - into a woman. Red is abducted by the woman who bit him - and her group of supernaturally strong female vigilantes and given a choice - he, now a she, must atone or die? Red chooses to atone.
Director Samantha Harrie. |
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GREENGRASS
(writer/director) |
Script available.
Feature. |
Fiercely independent 12 year-old Maggie McDuff finds herself living alone in her council home with a distant father & uncouth brother, when her mother is sentenced to life in prison for the mercy killing of her terminally-ill grandmother, a deed that Maggie herself committed…
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PONY GIRL (OR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR HUSBAND FALLS IN LOVE WITH ONE)
(writer/director) |
Script available.
Feature. |
Gemma, a distracted graphic novelist, is shocked when her husband George, a much loved local vet, confesses to being in love with his New Forest pony 'Missy'. At first she fails to take this ridiculous situation seriously, until it becomes apparent that Missy has a magnetic hold on George, and Gem has to decide whether she loves her husband enough to take drastic action or accept losing him to a small white pony who will do anything for a carrot.
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GUM
(writer/director) |
Script available.
Short film. |
When their parents split, two siblings find themselves caught between their depressed father & his wayward brother-in-law when they make friends with the first ethnic minority kid in their 1970s working class neighbourhood.
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HANG AND JANE
(writer/director) |
Treatment available.
Feature. |
The story of a woman raised in Communist Vietnam who finds herself abroad and looking for love and her own Mr Rochester through the prism of her favourite book, "Jane Eyre".
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BRANDLAND
(co-writer) |
Treatment available.
TV drama. |
With the imminent dissolution of the United Kingdom into individual nations, a branding guru who is hiding his company's dire straights wins the pitch to re-brand England. Will he manage save himself or will he ruin the country instead?
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BEATRICE
(writer) |
Treatment available.
Feature. |
A proud woman finds herself homeless through no fault of her own, and falls in with a wily street dweller who helps her navigate the dangers of life on the street as they both attempt to get themselves back on track...
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THREE DEAD FOXES
(writer) (based on her own novella) |
IN DEVELOPMENT.
Web series. |
An elderly couple, now loveless after 27 years of marriage, both die in a freak accident at home & stay in this realm as ghosts. Police suspect they are the latest victims of a local serial killer, as the couple continue to haunt their home, their loved ones & the new family who move into the house…
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CREDITS
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THE OTHER ME
(director) |
National Film & Television School and Kaos Films
Short film |
When a down-on-his-luck man meets his doppelganger, he realises the other man's misfortune increases his success so sets about destroying his happiness. (2010)
Click here to watch. |
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THE TOUGHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
(writer/director) |
National Film & Television School
Short film |
A bored teenage girl stuck in a dead-end seaside town meets a foreign exchange student, who shows her a different way to get what she wants from life. (2006)
Click here to watch. |
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A TOUCH OF SADNESS
(writer/director) |
National Film & Television School
Short film |
When a grown-up daughter, reeling from a break-up, moves back in with her estranged father she finds herself reimagining their relationship… (2005)
Click here to watch. |
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MEAT
(director) |
National Film & Television School
Short film |
When June tries to squeeze into a skimpy fifteen year-old dress in an attempt to make her 40th anniversary a memorable one, she soon makes husband Trevor regret his negative reaction... (2004)
Click here to watch. |
