ACCOLADES
FINALIST
Female Pilot Club 2024
WINNER
John Brabourne Award 2020
WINNER
BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy 2019
WINNER
Best Screenplay UnderWire
Festival 2012
LONGLISTED
BAFTA Rocliffe TV Drama 2016
NOMINATED
Best Comedy Portobello Film Festival 2012
THIRD ROUND QUALIFIER
BFSC 2010
BTS on Away From Me
FRANCESCA FOWLER started her career as an actor in 2004 and has been working in TV/Film for twenty years, turning to screenwriting in 2010. Represented in both UK and US, she has built her portfolio with spec scripts and independent commissions.
Her most recent sitcom Party Time was optioned by Picture Locked in 2024. Other accolades include winning the John Brabourne Award 2020 aiding development on her true-crime-drama Vine Cottages, as well as winning BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy 2019 with sitcom Daisy & Robbie Struggle to Survive - which was developed with Objective Fiction for a series treatment.
Having developed work with BBC Studios, Two Brothers and Kudos TV, her previous work includes comedy-drama Pick Up optioned with Blue Ink Films, sitcom Party Princesses optioned by Saffron Cherry as well as her gothic psychological thriller Lovers Lost being placed on BBC's in-house one to watch list. In 2017 her genre bending sci-fi-anti-rom-com LOVE. HATE. REPEAT was shortlisted for Creative England Emerging Talent Fund as well as her short film Away From Me premiering at BFI FLARE in the same year.
CREDITS
PARTY TIME
Sitcom Pilot
Optioned by Picture Locked 2024
THE DARK ART OF BEING A GIRL
2022 Proof of Concept for Feature Screenplay
THE LANDLADY
Thriller TV Series Pitch
Developed with Kudos TV 2021
DAISY AND ROBBIE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE – developed with Objective Fiction.
Winner of BAFTA Rocliffe TV comedy 2019
PICK UP – Comedy Drama Series (Inspired by short film “Pull”)
Optioned by Blue Ink Films 2020
PULL
Short Film – Split Films – 2017
AWAY FROM ME
Short Film - Writer, actor and co-director. Split Films/ The South - 2016
BFI Flare Festival 2017
PARTY PRINCESSES
Comedy Series Pilot
Signed to Buchwald & Associates – 2015
Optioned with Saffron Cherry - 2018
STOLEN
Short Film
Vickermann Films – 2014
THE INTERVENTION
Commissioned Screenplay (Feature Length) - Co-writer Seven Hill Pictures/Reverteller Films – 2012
PITFALL
Short Film
Seven Hill Pictures/Actors Apparel- 2011
WINNER Best Scriptwriter at The Underwire Film Festival.
Selected for London Short Film Festival and Portobello Film Festival.
28 YEARS LATER
Short Film
Seven Hill Pictures - 2011
NOMINATED for Best Comedy at The Portobello Film Festival.
Selected for London Short Film Festival.
IN DEVELOPMENT
FEATURES
VINE COTTAGES – True Crime Drama
Awarded the John Brabourne Award 2020
LOVE.HATE. REPEAT – Anti-Rom-Com
Shortlisted for Creative England Emerging Talent Fund 2017
CLAUDIE - LGBTQI+ Drama
Signed to MacFarlane Chard 2014
TELEVISION
DO NOT DISTURB – Thriller Mini-Series
Longlisted for BAFTA Rocliffe TV Drama 2016
MOSQUITOES – Dark Comedy Series
LIES AND CONFESSIONS – Drama Mini-Series
OH BOY – Comedy Series. True Story.
THE BOOK – Sitcom
THE CULL – Four-Part Thriller
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS – Comedy Series
LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR – Mini Series. LGBTQI+ Thriller.
CHILDREN'S
DOLLY AND NAT, THE WITCH AND HER CAT
THE MUMMY MONSTER