A grab-bag of television and film scripts that didn’t quite make it including a drama about GI brides and a psychological mystery set in the Scottish Highlands from screenwriter Andrea.
This episode contains strong language.
Cast: Kate O’Sullivan, Kenny Blyth, Lizzie Roper, Shash Hira, Emma Clarke, David Monteath, Rachel Atkins and Beth Chalmers.
OFFCUTS:
- 03’45” – Lucky Bag; which started out as part of a trilogy but became a standalone 30 minute TV, 1999
- 09’55” – More Than This; the opening of a TV drama, 2017
- 16’00” – 3 pitches for TV programme ideas, 1998
- 21’41” – Highland Gathering; the first feature film she ever wrote,1998
- 28’53” – Sextet; original screenplay, 2011
- 35’25” – The White Lie; a pitch document for a 2 part psychological drama, 2014
- 41’36” – GI Brides; the opening sequence of a TV drama series, 2014
Andrea Gibb is an award winning Scottish screenwriter who has worked extensively in both film and television. Her feature length screenplays for ‘Dear Frankie’ and ‘Afterlife’ won her the Scottish Screen Filmmaker of the Year award and the Women In Film and Television script award in 2005. Her adaptation of classic children’s novel ‘Swallows and Amazons’ (BBC Films) was released in cinemas in 2016 and won the Grand Jury prize at the New York Children’s Film festival and the family film award at Seattle Film Festival. She was nominated for the Carl Foreman award at the Bafta film awards for ‘Afterlife’ and has just been nominated for a Bafta television award and two Bafta Scotland awards for ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’, adapted from the novel into a single television film for STV starring Glenda Jackson. This film also won her the writer’s award at the 2020 RTS Scotland awards.
She has written four episodes of ‘Call The Midwife’ for Neal Street and the BBC and an episode of ‘Sanditon’ for Red Planet and ITV.
More about Andrea Gibb:
- Twitter: @gibbzer
- Agent: Curtis Brown
- IMDB: Andrea Gibb
