Manatee Love
Screenplay 90 min
A woman gets the opportunity to finally meet the daughter taken from her years ago in a forced adoption in Galway. Despite some reservations, she flies to Florida for the reunion, only to bail last minute, unable to face it, but a chance encounter with a drifter helps her seize the opportunity to finally connect.
Austin Film Festival 2018 – 2nd Rounder (link to website)
Creative World Awards 2018 – Semi-Finalist (link to website)
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards – Quarter-Finalist (link to website)
001
Short Film (10 mins)
A woman finally wins a landmark case to use her late husband’s sperm, but loses the vial in a taxi on route to the insemination clinic. A desperate search ensues which forces her to question if the chance at motherhood she fought so hard for in the first place, is what will really needs after all.
Semi-Finalist Sundance 2013
Quarter-Finalist PAGE Awards 2010
City of Scars
Drama/thriller (In development)
When a female Canadian diplomat in Mexico learns her prostitute lover has been murdered, she risks career, marriage and even life, to fulfill her promise to bury him in his hometown despite the fact that the country’s deadliest gang are also in hot pursuit for his body.
Shortlist She Writes 2011
Shortlist Serious Screenwriting Development Scheme at Script Factory 2010
Used with kind permission from Tomas Castelazo – www.tomascastelazo.com
Television
Red Rock Writers Academy II
Selected for this intensive course led by John Yorke.
Trial Script for Series 3.
‘From the Ashes’ Episode 163 for Series 2: Sharon’s confidence recovers when Robbie reveals Laser killed Little Barry but now she must convince him to give a statement.
“Great experience, great show, learnt loads.”
Broken Stories
Two-Part TV drama
A child psychologist has to fight to clear his name when falsely accused by his ex-wife of sexually molesting their six year-old Amy.
Actors’ read-through DVD on request
Finalist of TAPS Finding the Writers’ Voice Mentoring & Production Scheme – 2009
Watch the video of Broken Stories
The Silver Cigarette Case
Two-Part TV drama
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s short story A Dangerous Hobby.
England 1950. An injured, young, charming British solider returns to his wife and daughter from the Korean War and tries to adapt to civilian life, taking up work as a vacuum cleaner salesman, at which he soon excels. But maintaining his morale becomes increasingly difficult when on learning his injuries have resulted in permanent impotence, his wife shows no compassion whatsoever. Trapped in an unhappy marriage and lacking a sense of purpose, he finds bizarre relief in stealing personal items from his female clients he visits, until one day he is caught red handed and he responds with tragic consequences.
An exploration of moral impotence, powerless and despair.
Radio
Mother Unknown
Radio play (outline – 45 min)
A Scottish middle aged woman discovers from her dying father that she was adopted from Spain in the 60s.
The woman flies to Madrid but her search for her birth mother meets only with dead-ends. But with an old nun’s helps, she finds out that her mother was told that her baby died at birth, when in fact she stolen by the nurse nuns to sell to her parents, during Franco’s baby-trafficking scandal.
But with such sketchy and corrupted contact details, can the woman ever trace her birth mother?
Finalist BBC 4 Commissioning Round 2012
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Radio play (outline)
Ben and Amy get pregnant after years of IVF and right from the start, the foetus has a voice of his own, which only Amy can hear.
It takes an instant dislike to its father, doubting his fidelity to Amy – she finally tells Ben who is really hurt by her distrust and rows become the order of the day. But when Amy miscarries, she discovers the true extent of the rot in the marriage.
The couple must decide what, if anything, can be salvaged from the mess.
- Included in six initial ideas presented to BBC Radio 4 Drama Commissioning round 2012
