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TOM KEREVAN
writer www.tomkerevan.com @tomkerevan  |
Tom began his writing career as a playwright at university, before finding his home writing for the screen. In 2012 he moved into producing and the following year he founded Cannibal Films with Alex Lightman and Ern Herrmann. He wrote and produced their debut feature TEAR ME APART which world premiered in competition at the Austin Film Festival 2015.
In 2018 he wrote two series for blackpills - IMMORTALITY (released 2018) and OFF. Since then he has divided his time between writing TV pilots, working on interactive films, and expanding Cannibal Films’ slate with a focus on personal and surprising true stories.
He works across all genres and finds himself drawn to stories with characters searching for a place to belong.
His original crime drama TRESAWNE is with Double Dutch and he is currently writing HOTEL LARK MOOR for Watford & Essex. He is writer/producer on ACROSS THE LINE with director Francis Annan attached.
Tom lived in London for 12 years, but can now be found writing near Cheltenham.
In 2018 he wrote two series for blackpills - IMMORTALITY (released 2018) and OFF. Since then he has divided his time between writing TV pilots, working on interactive films, and expanding Cannibal Films’ slate with a focus on personal and surprising true stories.
He works across all genres and finds himself drawn to stories with characters searching for a place to belong.
His original crime drama TRESAWNE is with Double Dutch and he is currently writing HOTEL LARK MOOR for Watford & Essex. He is writer/producer on ACROSS THE LINE with director Francis Annan attached.
Tom lived in London for 12 years, but can now be found writing near Cheltenham.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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TRESAWNE
(writer) |
Double Dutch.
TV drama. |
Spring in the peaceful seaside town of St Minnerick, Cornwall. When her best friend’s eight-year-old daughter goes missing, heavily-pregnant Detective Sergeant ANNIE TRESAWNE refuses maternity leave to head up the investigation to find her. But unbeknownst to Annie, the friend, BETH CUTTER, takes matters into her own hands by confronting the man she believes is responsible - her daughter’s estranged father - and ends up killing him. As Beth tries to cover up the murder to keep searching for her daughter, she only serves to complicate Annie’s investigation, putting the two friends on opposite sides of the time-sensitive hunt for the little girl.
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DRIFTER
(writer) |
Script available.
TV drama. |
When surf champion Leanne (24) returns to her hometown of Porthlerro - the UK’s surf capital - for the first time in four years ago, she stumbles across a mysterious and horrifying scene in the caves beneath an abandoned cliff-top hotel - a petrified young boy and a dead woman. With the police unable to ID them, Leanne and the small community find themselves dragged into a twisting murder mystery of the supernatural emanating from the eerie darkness of the hotel. Who are the boy and the dead woman? Was it an accident or something more sinister? And what malevolent forces are at play inside the hotel?
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LEAVING EARTH
(writer) |
Script available.
TV drama. |
In a dystopian near-future, Earth is dying and humanity is twenty five years into a century-long global exodus mission. In the evacuation city of Last Orleans, young convicts Nina and Marco head up a gang smuggling illegal refugees onto the departing space ships. When they find out a superstorm will hit and destroy the city in two weeks time, they must attempt to smuggle themselves off the planet... but how? And who else do they save?
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WRECKERS
(writer) |
Script available.
TV drama. |
Shipwrecked on the hostile coast of 18th Century Cornwall, a young and righteous sailor must survive a brutal winter amongst the shady men who supposedly lured his ship to shore and left him for dead.
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INSIDERS
(co-writer) |
Script available.
Sitcom. |
A City of London trader, desperate to escape the champagne, coke and strippers lifestyle tries to quit, but when his Hedgefund is implicated in insider trading he finds himself caught between two of the most ruthless men in the business. This is "The Thick of It" on a trading floor.
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VENGEANCE
(writer) |
Treatment available.
Feature. |
An obsessive ex-policeman must solve the murder of a man he had plotted to kill, found dead in exactly the same way he had planned to commit the crime.
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ESCAPE FROM HELL
(writer) |
IN DEVELOPMENT.
Feature. |
An innocent man, sent to the depths of hell for all eternity, learns the true nature of the afterlife and in order to get to his wife in heaven he must embrace his destiny and attempt to trick the Devil himself.
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THREE 21st's AND A CORNISH PASTY
(writer) |
IN DEVELOPMENT.
Feature. |
With only a few hours to win back the girl of his dreams, a cocky jack-the-lad and a motley crew of misfits embark on a riotous road trip from London to Newquay in a banged-up campervan.
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GUN
(writer/producer) |
Feature.
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Within the walls of an ancient cliff-top house, the unsolved mystery of three brutal murders spanning half a century is pieced together by the house itself… one room at a time.
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THE KAGE
(co-writer) |
Austen Productions.
Feature. |
When an experiment into traumatic memories goes horribly wrong, the four test subjects are left to fend for themselves in a facility that has a malicious mind of its own…
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CREDITS
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OFF
(writer) |
Blackpills.
Web series. |
In a near-future dystopia, the world’s resources have been depleted to the point that it is no longer feasible to sustain the lives of every human on Earth. As a result, countries have adopted an ON/OFF law, where citizens must alternate being alive. This is the story of two very different families and how they face such a world order.
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IMMORTALITY
(writer) |
Blackpills.
Web series. |
Somewhere in a close future, Sha Dishi is leading a nation of immortals people. She is handling every area of their lives, from careers and religion to family and social life. But as she is thinking of passing the power to her son, she has to deal with the beginning of a political and terrorist revolt against her dictatorial power...
Director Nick Parish. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE SERIES via blackpills |
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TEAR ME APART
(writer/producer) |
Cannibal Pictures.
Feature. |
In the wastelands of post-apocalyptic England, two young brothers turn to cannibalism to survive only to fall for their prey, a teenage girl... and possibly the last female left alive.
OFFICIAL SELECTION Austin Film Festival Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival Bronx International Film Festival Newport Beach Film Festival Hell’s Half Mile Film Festival Molins De Rei Film Festival http://www.tearmeapartmovie.com/ Director Alex Lightman. (2016) |
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THE BOY WITH THE HEART OF STEEL
(writer) |
321 Productions.
Short film. |
Hiding from the retribution of the Moral High Court, an obsessive scientist turns his back on his wife and performs a highly controversial experiment in a desperate attempt to save his son.
Director Alex Lightman. (2014) |
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THE SECRET LIFE OF A QUIZ MASTER
(writer/producer) |
Yerman Films.
Short film. |
A day in the life of Tommy Q, the greatest Quiz Master the world has ever seen.
Director Isabelle Sieb. (2013) CLICK HERE TO WATCH |
