With over ten years’ experience writing for film, TV and radio…
…I have been hired to write professionally on a feature film, multiple short films (available to watch below) and for BBC Radio. You can read any of my spec scripts listed on this page by contacting me via email: herries.anderton@gmail.com
PRODUCED SHORT FILMS
THE OLD MAN AND THE THIEF (2026)
A lonely retiree returns home to find that he's been burgled, only to realise that the culprit never left.
I served as co-writer, co-producer and production designer on this short film, filmed on location in Loughborough over a three days.
Premiered: Worcester Film Festival, 26th September 2026
THE DAISY CROWN (2024)
A tantalising romance between an imprisoned princess and her homespun servant that threatens both the kingdom and their lives.
I served as co-writer, co-producer and production designer on this short film based on my short story, ‘Another Castle’.
Semi-Finalist: Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (2024)
UNPRODUCED SCRIPTS
Drama Pilots
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A young man forms an unlikely friendship when he goes to extremes battling his phone addiction.
(Standalone episode, originally written for the Play For Today anthology series.) -
The birth of the first true artificial superintelligence sparks a culture war.
International Emmys, Sir Peter Ustinov Scriptwriting Award Finalist
Longlonglisted for BBC Studios Writers’ Academy
Comedy Pilots
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A sex-addict on trial in hell must defend his most embarrassing antics to his family and friends or face an eternity of damnation.
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After her A-level politics coursework was so rudely interrupted by a nuclear apocalypse, Sarah corrals her bunker of survivors into roleplaying every form of government.
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A curmudgeonly tour guide and amateur military strategist is abducted by aliens and tasked with leading the invasion of earth.
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Two clones trying to find themselves find each other instead.
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A cantankerous old woman just wants to be left alone to her gardening but her son thinks it’s time for the home.
(Radio sitcom pilot)
Feature Scripts
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When an American woman buys a stately home in Northumberland, she clashes with her neighbour over ownership of the garden and their rivalry quickly spirals into a bitter war with horrific consequences.
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Rebuilt as a robot after a near-fatal crash, a space-racer must compete in a deadly race across the galaxy to regain her humanity.
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A young woman returns to the town where her father drunkenly sold her as a baby to find he is now mayor and a pillar of the community.
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
Short Film Scripts
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In search of her missing professor, a physics student unravels a quantum mystery.
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A shoot meet goes awry with the fatal addition of zombies.