Fiona Veitch Smith

Screenplays

• Produced screenplays
• Screenplays in development
• Screenplays looking for a Producer

Produced screenplays

Enemy Lines

(FNA Films, 2008)
A soldier returns from the battlefield to a British street. As his tortured memories threaten to overpower him, he is faced with the choice of saving an anti-war protestor from a mugging or leaving her to suffer her fate. Moral lines of right and wrong are redrawn in this short but powerful four-minute film.

Directed by: Michael Steel
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Produced by: Zahra Zomorrodien and Dawn Furness
Director of Photography: David Dixon
Awards and nominations:

• Enemy Lines was produced as a finalist in Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council’s Stinger 6 programme.
• It was screened as one of the best British short films of 2009 in the Rushes Soho Short Film Festival.

Wally & Floss and the Five Golden Rules

(Edumedia, 1999)
This educational video script was for a pre-school HIV-awareness programme. The project was funded by the South Peninsula Health Department in Cape Town and is still used in pre-schools and nurseries in the city.

Directed by: Dirk Binneman and Fiona Veitch Smith
Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith

Screenplays in development

Myro the Microlight Series

(Nick Rose Productions)
An adaptation of the Myro the Microlight picture books. Thirteen episodes are in development.

The Last of the Gypsy Royals

(Tony Glover Film and Video)

A documentary about the re-uniting of the descendents of the last Gypsy Royal Family of Yetholm. After posting an article I had written on this colourful family, descendents from around the world started ‘meeting’ on my website. A real-life reunion was organised and Tony Glover and I filmed the whole thing. Initially supported by Northern Film and Media we are now looking for additional funding to help us finish this fascinating film.

 

The Choice

A feature-length adaptation of the inspirational inter-faith love story of Elizabeth Robertson Campbell. When a young Christian girl falls in love with a fervent orthodox Jew she decides to convert to Judaism. Little does she realise the devastation her decision will cause nor the gut-wrenching choice she will be asked to make. I have been commissioned to write the treatment and first draft of this film by Drawbridge Productions in Cape Town. http://thechoicemovie.co.za/

Screenplays looking for a producer

Another Man’s Shoes

It’s 1956, the height of the London jazz scene, and two black pianists arrive in the capital. They’ve never met but look uncannily alike. One is escaping a gay sex scandal at a posh school, the other is embroiled in an inter-racial affair with a society heiress. Neither realise they’re a threat to a billion pound shipping empire and a tycoon who will do anything to stop them. Jazz, sex and murder – it’s a perfect fit.

Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith

• Another Man’s Shoes was a semi-finalist in the SoCal Independent Film Festival, 2009, long-form screenplay category.
• Another Man’s Shoes was written in collaboration with Northern Film and Media’s project development service.

Spinning

Two women meet in a gym. They’re the same age but on opposite ends of the career / family spectrum. Clarissa wants Dawn’s life until she discovers that Dawn already has a bit of hers. A ten minute film covering a life-time of disappointment.

Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith

Spinning was shortlisted for Northern Film and Media’s Maxi Stingers 7.

The Dreamsavers

When children who dream become a threat to the job market, nanoprobes are injected into their brains. Only The Dreamsavers can free the next generation to be all they were meant to be. A SciFi adventure series for 6 – 12-year-olds.

Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith