Writing Portfolio
With a background in film production, screenwriting has always been a key part of my professional life. In recent years, I have expanded my writing to include autobiographical prose and poetry, and occasionally fiction. Below are some highlights of my writing work:
Writer Belle Eve and The Red Knight, feature film screenplay, longlisted for the Euroscript Screen Story Competition, London 2024, in development
Writer To Dream of Green Horses, feature film screenplay, in development
Writer memoir about coming of age at the fall of communism, in development
Co-writer Harold & Laila, short film, 2023; Winner Honorable Mention & Best Child Actress, Madras Independent Film Festival; Official Selection Jaipur Film World; Official Selection, Finalist Best Drama, RS Film Fest, Bristol
Co-writer The Dressmaker, short film screenplay, in development
Writer Clairvoyance, short film screenplay, in development
Writer Ennui, poem published online by the Royal Society of Literature, 2020
Writer testimonial on immigrant experiences published in the third volume of In Limbo, a collection of Brexit testimonies from EU citizens living in the UK, edited by Elena Remigi, Véronique Martin, Tim Sykes, 2020
Writer article on abortion rights, published in The Huffington Post, 2019 Writer Ecaterina 33, short documentary, 2015
Writer Landscape with Camel and Bear, feature film screenplay, 2012; Runner-up award for Best Screenplay, Manaki Brothers Film Festival, Macedonia; developed with Midpoint Institute in Prague 2013
Writing samples
First page from To Dream of Green Horses, a feature rom-com currently in development
This poem, published online by the Royal Society of Literature as part of the project Write across London, came up during a writing exercise in December 2020, where the prompt was an object or food that we associated with lockdown.
Article published in The Huffington Post in June 2019
News
10/06/24 I’m thrilled to be longlisted for the Euroscript Screen Story Competition 2024 with my social drama project Belle Eve and The Red Knight. Nearly two years of hard work have paid off. In the course of writing the first draft of the script now.
