Image courtesy of FNA Films
Produced screenplays
Enemy Lines
(FNA Films, 2008)
A soldier returns from the battlefield to a British street. As his tortured memories threaten to overpower him, he is faced with the choice of saving an anti-war protestor from a mugging or leaving her to suffer her fate. Moral lines of right and wrong are redrawn in this short but powerful four-minute film.
Directed by: Michael Steel
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Produced by: Zahra Zomorrodien and Dawn Furness
Director of Photography: David Dixon
Awards and nominations:
- Enemy Lines was produced as a finalist in Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council’s Stinger 6 programme.
- It was screened as one of the best British short films of 2009 in the Rushes Soho Short Film Festival.
Wally & Floss and the Five Golden Rules
(Edumedia, 1999)
This educational video script was for a pre-school HIV-awareness programme. The project was funded by the South Peninsula Health Department in Cape Town and is still used in pre-schools and nurseries in the city.
Directed by: Dirk Binneman and Fiona Veitch Smith
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Screenplays in production
Traffick
(Independent Production, 2009)
A short documentary film about a young Camerooni woman who was trafficked to the UK and held as a sex slave in London. When her captor found out she was pregnant he tossed her out onto the streets. Now a single mother living in Newcastle upon Tyne, she is claiming asylum.
Directed by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Producer and Sound Recordist: Tommy Hair
Associate Producer: Mychaela Stevenson
Director of Photography: Jessica Greene
Screenplays in development
Another Man’s Shoes
It’s 1956, the height of the London jazz scene, and two black pianists arrive in the capital. They’ve never met but look uncannily alike. One is escaping a gay sex scandal at a posh school, the other is embroiled in an inter-racial affair with a society heiress. Neither realise they’re a threat to a billion pound shipping empire and a tycoon who will do anything to stop them. Jazz, sex and murder – it’s a perfect fit.
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
- Another Man’s Shoes is a semi-finalist in the SoCal Independent Film Festival, 2009, long-form screenplay category.
- Another Man’s Shoes was written in collaboration with Northern Film and Media’s project development service.
Spinning
Two women meet in a gym. They’re the same age but on opposite ends of the career / family spectrum. Clarissa wants Dawn’s life until she discovers that Dawn already has a bit of hers. A ten minute film covering a life-time of disappointment.
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Spinning was shortlisted for Northern Film and Media’s Maxi Stingers 7.
The Dreamsavers
When children who dream become a threat to the job market, nanoprobes are injected into their brains. Only The Dreamsavers can free the next generation to be all they were meant to be. A SciFi adventure series for 6 – 12-year-olds.
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Myro and the Jetfighter
A little microlight saves the life of an ungrateful jetfighter. The pilot for a spec animated children’s TV series.
Written by: Nick Rose and Fiona Veitch Smith
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