Biography

Alice started as an advertising copywriter and journalist before adding scriptwriting to her portfolio. She's won several script awards, written over 80 episodes of "Ninja Warrior" for Challenge TV, and secured options for several feature scripts. She regularly writes blogs, reviews and articles about films and film making for online magazines, and is an associate lecturer on the M A Screenwriting at the London College of Communication. Alice has also published short stories and joke books.   

She's directed 19 shorts since 2010, but she has also written several other film and TV scripts and treatments. Genres include historical, supernatural, sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Alice is developing other writing projects with her literary agent.

In February 2016, she directed a one-woman show of her own script at the Vauxhall Tea House Theatre and this is now developed as a feature script for sale. In the same year, she completed three short films - all of which got selected at international film festivals.  

In 2017, she created a short for the Directors UK Alexa Challenge called "Home to the Hangers" which has been selected for festivals in the USA and in the UK. It won A Certain Regard (Cinematography), Best British Short Film, the Imperial War Museum's Special Category Award: Making a new world, Best Combined Use of Sound & Music, with nominations for cinematography and costume design.    

She completed a short film for the Visible Poetry Project in 2018, and made a micro short and a charity film in 2019 (Silver Award winner in the 2020 Charity Film Awards). Also in 2019, Alice directed her stage play "The Waiting Room" in the One Act Play Festival at the Stockwell Playhouse. She shot a music video and two short dramas in 2020, and both the dramas were completed in 2021 and have premiered at international film festivals. The monologue film "Put Away" has won 13 awards so far, while "Odds" has won 5.  In 2022, she was commissioned to direct "Playing Away", the award-winning short script in the Film Expo South Script to Screen competition.  

She's finished the working draft of her directing debut feature, and she's collaborating with others on a a feature documentary, a kids' sitcom and an animated web series.  A historical radio drama that she wrote was released with Towton Audio in August 2021, and another will be released early in 2023.

Alice has been selected for the BAFTA Connect, and is also a member of Cinesister, the ITV Comedy 50:50, and the Film London/UKTV All Voices initiatives. 
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Credits

Other Credits

The flask SHORT FILM View
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Drama 2011
The view from the window SHORT FILM View
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DRAMA. Award-winning script. 2012
London: the city in balance CORPORATE View
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A film about gin and London 2013
The state of the nation Corporate Film View
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Combining a presenter with green screen, live action, motion capture in a confidential film for an international drinks company 2013
Stranger danger SHORT FILM View
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Comedy drama that shows you should never underestimate old ladies. 2012
A Small Dot on the Western Front Theatre production View
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An expansion of the 2014 short film, this 70-minute theatre piece tells the story of Dorothy Lawrence. She was the only woman to serve in the British Army in World War 1. This is now a feature script. 2016
Neat Cleats Short Film View
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A micro short about biking that turns into something else entirely. 2019
Writing the Peace Documentary Short View
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The story of the paper that ended WW2. Winner Best Short Documentary (2017) and Best Short Film (2018) 2016
The Waiting Room Theatre Production View
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Selected for the One Act Play Festival at the Stockwell Playhouse. Presenting the play as writer, producer, director in June 2019 2019
Home to the Hangers Short Film View
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Co-winner: Directors UK Alexa Challenge 2017 Pitched on the theme of anniversary, this film brings war poet Edward Thomas back to the Hampshire hills he loved so much. Winner: Best British Short, A Certain Regard for Cinematography, A special award from the Imperial War Museum, Best Combined Use of Sound & Music 2017
The Penny Dropped Short View
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A supernatural story in the film noir style Winner: Order of Merit, Best Short Short, Best Paranormal Horror, Best Sound Design. Selected for festivals and showcases in the UK, Europe and USA 2016
Stand as One Music Video View
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A charity song designed to raise funds to the help the mental health of people working in the events sectors who've been affected by the virus pandemic. Written and performed by Joe Bygraves. COntributed to 3 awards won by the charity, and shortlisted for the Charity Film Awards. Producers: Be Content & Hurcheon Films. 2020
A Small Dot on the Western Front SHORT FILM View
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A drama about the only woman to serve on the Western Front in World War 1. Proof of concept for a feature already written. 2014
Feet SHORT FILM View
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Comedy about the crisis that happens when two passengers swap feet in the darkness of a stall tube train. 2010
Leisure Poetry Short Film View
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A film for the Visible Poetry Project in New York. They screen a poetry film every day throughout April (the Poetry Month in the USA) and "Leisure" was one of them in 2018. Nominated for the Weimar Poetry Film Award. Screened at several international festivals. 2018
Spring on the Strand Short View
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A visual poem about the changing season in west London. Self shot. Selected for many international film festivals especially mobile and poetry niches. 2016
Odds Short film View
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A man lost in a landscape accepts a lift in a passing car. Premiered at the Portland Horror Film Festival. Long listed for the Funny Women Short Film Award. Winner of 4 awards so far, selected by 50% of all festivals it's entered. 2021
Ace SHORT FILM View
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Comedy short without dialogue which shows you should never underestimate old men or children. Winner of four awards, screening in festivals around the world as there were no language issues. 2013
Put Away Short Film View
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A woman reflects on a lifetime of enforced isolation. Proof of concept for a feature project already written. Winner of 17 awards so far in film festivals in USA, UK and France. 2020
Playing Away Short Film View
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This commission is to direct the script that's won the Film Expo South Script to Screen competition written by Steve Langridge for release and screening at various cinemas and pop up screens across Hampshire and Dorset from mid September 2022. This has won three awards. I was also a judge on the competition, supplied script editing, and ended up co-producing too. 2022
Merry Christmas, Bill Short film View
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This commission is to direct the script that's won the Film Expo South Script to Screen competition written by Lindsey Sharp. Filming in Dorset. I was also a judge on the competition, supplied script editing, and ended up co-producing too. 2025

Non-Directorial Credits

Ninja Warrior View
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Narration and 'as live' commentary for reversioning of this Japanese/USA sports entertainment show. Challenge TV/Pintsize Pictures
The Sock View
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Script editor and script supervisor on a short film production run over 4 consecutive weekends by Action on the Side.
Winter Barbecue View
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Script editor Short film Production Company/Entity: Action on the Side
What did you do in the war, Mama? View
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Creating and scripting a radio drama produced as a podcast by Towton Audio. It re-imagines a piece of British war time history.
The Protocol View
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A project for the 48-hour Sci-Fi Challenge. I helped the production as producer and ended up being sound recordist too.
Goodbye Space Station Gamma 45 View
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A 24-hour theatre challenge to write a 10-minute script on the theme of "Moving" for the Festival of the Fleeting Word.
An interview with Maria Mitchell View
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An 'as live' interview with American astrology pioneer Maria Mitchell who died in 1888, leaving a legacy of education and astronomy. An audio podcast for Towton Audio, due for release autumn 2022.
Cleaning View
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Script editor and script supervisor on a short film production run over 4 consecutive weekends by Action on the Side.

Awards

  • Paris Film Awards

    Best thriller - 2022

  • One Reeler Film Festival

    Award of Excellence - 2022

  • Romford Horror Film Festival

    Jury's Award - 2022

  • Shiver FIlm Festival

    Best Thriller - 2022

  • Ealing Film Festival

    Best Lockdown Film - 2021

  • WRPN.tv

    Exceptional Merit - 2021

  • Monologue & Poetry Film Festival

    Best Longer Form Monologue - 2021

  • La Femme Film Festival

    Best Social Awarenss Film - 2021

  • La Femme Film Festival

    Best Short Foreign Language FIlm - 2021

  • La Femme Film Festival

    Best Actress Jury's Award - 2021

  • New York International Women's Film Festival

    Best Editing - 2021

  • Short Sounds Film Festival

    Best Combined Use of Sound & Music - 2020

  • Charity Film Awards

    Silver Award in the £10-100K Turnover Category - 2020

  • Stockwell Playhouse

    Co-Winner One Act Play Festival - 2019

  • Visible Poetry Project

    Co-winner - 2018

  • U-Horror FIlm Festival

    Best Paranormal Horror - 2018

  • Imperial War Museum Short Film Festival

    Special Category Award: Make a new worl - 2018

  • Purbeck Film Festival

    A Certain Regard (Cinematography) - 2018

  • Southampton International Film Festival

    Best British Short Film - 2018

  • Women's Only Entertainment Film Festival

    Best Short Short - 2018

  • American Presidents Film & Literary Festival

    Best Short Documentary - 2018

  • Dorking Film Festival

    Best Documentary - 2017

  • Directors UK

    Co-winner Alexa Challenge - 2017

  • One-Reeler Short Film Competition

    Award of Merit - 2017

  • Southampton Intl Film Festival

    Best Sound Design - 2017

  • London Rolling Film Festival

    Jury's Choice Best Short - 2016

Skills

  • HD
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