Biography

 

Television scriptwriter specialising in powerful thrillers and big-scale drama.

 

Screenwriting:

 

2004

FAMILY AFFAIRS

One episoode: Talkback Thames

 

ONE OF US

A romantic comedy set in contemporary London. A bitter, young tabloid journalist sets out to dish the dirt but suddenly finds the tables turned and it's her life being dissected and examined. "It's a Wonderful Life" set in contemporary London from the angel's perspective.

 

2004

THE LONG WAY HOME

A two part television thriller: Optioned to SMG productions: When 19 year old Sam Heyman is arrested for a brutal murder, his mother, Chief Advisor to the Crown Prosecution Service, finds herself battling on the other side of the court to save her son.  But her husband fights the only way he knows - on the streets of Edinburgh hunting down the dealers who made his child a crack addict, and he will break every law of the land to find justice. 

 

DEAD AND BURIED

A contemporary two part thriller: Harry is released after serving 25 years for the brutal murder of a policeman. As he returns to his family in Glasgow, the past will not be ignored. The truth cannot be buried.

 

BEYOND GHOSTS

Feature film - a period romantic drama set in Vienna in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. As the devastated city of Vienna rebuilds, a young victim of the Gestapo and an American war photographer fight to put their own guilt and pain behind them to find the strength to face the future.

 

The screenplay in it's first draft reached the final 15% of the Nicholl Fellowship (Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences), the final of the Austin Film Festival and won a place on the Moonstone Screenwriting Seminar. There Ann worked with US and UK feature screenwriters including Jeremy Pikser (REDS, BULWORTH), Peter Hedges (WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE), Trevor Griffiths, Troy Kennedy Martin and John McGrath

 

CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

Screenplay - adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS: A dramatisation of the original novel, for a family audience: was taken by Jane Wittekind and David Puttnam to Warner Bros.

Work Background:

 

1990- Present

Script Supervisor: Television and Film Drama: BBC trained Production

Assistant / Script Supervisor: 11 years experience in Drama programme making as a freelance Script Supervisor on film (16 mm, Super 16, 35 mm), single tape and multi camera studio productions. Organisation and administrative skills during pre-production and post-production of  single dramas, series and serials. Ann is responsible for script editing, timing and often story lining.  Her work involves working with Producers, Directors, and Writers ensuring their vision of the programme is attained whilst keeping the Editor's and Producer's views in mind, including budgetary considerations and artistic interpretation.

 

1985 - 1990

Production Assistant in Music and Arts Television: Researched programme ideas with the Director from the proposal and budgeting stages, up to and including programme production. These programmes included documentaries on such subjects as photography, classical music, history, modern and classical art. Also initiated programme ideas with her Producer. During this time Ann worked aborad extensively, including the Soviet Union, Spain, Austria, USA.

 

1980 - 1985

Researcher / Reporter: BBC Radio Scotland: Writing scripts, articles and publicity material for her own items, as well for other reporters. Series worked on include Woman's Hour and Educational Broadcasts, subjects to be researched in line with current teaching plans and national curriculum.

 

 

 

 

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