Andrea Gibb

Andrea Gibb is a Scottish film and television writer who in 2003 wrote the feature film Dear Frankie, starring Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler, which won the Women in Film and Television Script Award in 2004.

In 2005 she was nominted for the Carl Foreman Award at the BAFTAs for Afterlife.

Since then, she has worked on a range of projects, including adaptations of Vikram Seth's best selling novel An Equal Music for Cuba Pictures and Susan Cooper's children's book The Boggart for the Jim Henson Company. 

In 2009 she adapted Rose Tremain's award-winning novel The Road Home for BBC1 and in 2012 she adapted the classic novel Swallows and Amazons for BBC Films, which will be filmed in 2013.