“Christabelle has an excellent grasp of character set up and narrative drive whilst also understanding the personal, poetic and instinctive side of story telling.”

Diarmid Scrimshaw, Producer Tyrannosaur

Writing

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

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