Steve Ruttley is an Australian-born screenwriter who graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London with a BA in Acting.
In 2010, Steve was awarded the Cordelia Award by the Bluecat Screenplay Competition for his screenplay TILFORD. The following year, his screenplay KABLITSKI was selected as a Finalist in the Page International Screenwriting Awards. Steve has since been commissioned for various screenwriting assignments, and was recently selected for Raising Films’ 2017 CLOSR Development Programme.
Steve is represented by Steven Russell.
In 2010, Steve was awarded the Cordelia Award by the Bluecat Screenplay Competition for his screenplay TILFORD. The following year, his screenplay KABLITSKI was selected as a Finalist in the Page International Screenwriting Awards. Steve has since been commissioned for various screenwriting assignments, and was recently selected for Raising Films’ 2017 CLOSR Development Programme.
Steve is represented by Steven Russell.
IN DEVELOPMENT
BATSHIT CRAZY
(writer) |
Script available.
Romantic drama feature. |
An ambitious young property developer, working with her widower father, finds herself falling in love with an idealistic eco-consultant during work on a bat-infested manor house and locking horns with her own company over plans to demolish and redevelop it...
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TILFORD
(writer) |
Script available.
Feature. |
A widow and her young son give refuge to a wounded government witness after discovering he’s testifying against the underworld figure that tore their family apart. Trying to keep him alive and hidden for seven days until he can give testimony against the man who killed their husband and father, will their thawing relationship survive the revelation that he was instrumental in the death?
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KABLITSKI
(writer) |
Script available.
Comedy adventure feature. |
Burned-out CIA agent Nathan Kablitski is forced to return to his backwater hometown to move back in with his parents. But the mayhem he thought he left behind is on its way to find him.
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OPEN VEIN
(writer) |
Script available.
Thriller feature. |
A British woman becomes the unexpected recipient of an isolated mine in the Australian outback and as she travels there to supervise its sale, she falls prey to the shifting allegiances of small town miners and the country’s indigenous population who are all fiercely protecting their own interests, trapping her in the middle...
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THE SOURCE
(co-writer) |
Script available.
Action thriller feature. |
An unorthodox female government agent blackmails a reformed gunrunner into bringing down an international network of arms dealers.
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SHOCKWAVES
(co-writer) |
Treatment available.
Children's TV drama. |
A young boy must cope with life after his father returns home paralysed from the war in Afghanistan.
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SKALSKI'S CIRCUS
(writer) |
Boxfly Media.
Historical adventure feature. |
An ace Polish fighter pilot falls for a rising female war correspondent amidst the chaos of World War Two.
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