Christabelle has a strong instinct for story and a particular perspective on script writing, formed by being an actor – experiencing stories from the inside – and by her love of directing. She sees scripts visually, and is primarily interested in her characters’ journeys.

Christabelle trained as a director at the Northern film school, where she wrote and directed a short film, Shoes, and The Big Catch, which won the Kodak Student Commercial award. For the Screen East / UK Film Council’s Digital Shorts scheme she wrote a second short film Grace, which she also directed.

Christabelle has often worked as a story editor on documentary subjects, unearthing powerful, character-led narratives from complex histories. She researched and wrote three dramas in the BBC’s Surviving Disasters series: The Sinking of the Estonia, Eruption at Mount St Helens and Fastnet Yacht Race. She also wrote a three part series Suez: A Very British Crisis, starring James Fox, for BBC2.

Christabelle has written two feature film scripts with development funding from UK Film Council through Screen East: Flotsam and Faithless.

She is currently working on her first novel.

Credits

Television:

Surviving Disaster – BBC 2, 3 episodes

• The Sinking of the Estonia
• Fastnet Yacht Race
• Eruption at Mount St Helens

Suez: A Very British Crisis – BBC 1, 3 x 60’ episodes

Film:

• Faithless – Screen East
  Original feature film script
• Flotsam – Screen East
  Original feature film script
• Grace – Screen East / Film Council
  Wrote and directed short film

Documentaries:

• Waking the Incas – Discovery Channel
  Wrote and researched script, shot pilot
• Lost Children – Tigerlily Films
  Wrote and researched script, shot complete footage
• Chica Inglesa – Channel 4
  Wrote feature length creative documentary drama