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Theatre, Film and TV
Jessica Cooper
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Kefi
Chadwick
Screenwriter & playwright
Kefi is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright whose work ranges from politically influenced drama to comedy. Kefi now writes primarily for screen.
Her current film projects include a screen adaptation of her critically successful play Any Means Necessary (winner of a Creative Europe MEDIA award). The film is being funded by the BFI and produced by Wellington Films; In The Kingdom Of The Isles with producer Wendy Griffin & director Georgia Oakley and Toxic for Sky Cinema with Escape Films. Her film Inheritance, inspired by her time on Edinburgh film festival Ideas lab, is being produced by Savannah James Baylely and The Bureau. She co-wrote The Devil with director Tom Geens which is being produced by Zoranna Piggot, Bankside and the BFI. She also wrote Girlfriends, produced by Harriet Rees and to be directed by Debbie Isitt. She co-wrote the feature Looted which was nominated for the Raindance Discovery Award.
For TV, she has a number of comedy and drama projects in development with companies such as Ranga Bee, Urban Myths, Tiger Lily, VAL, and What Larks! for Sky Comedy. Kefi has also been a writer-for-hire on numerous shows including Death in Paradise, River City, Maxxx and Flack and Romesh Ranganathan’s new series for BBC1, Avoidance.
For stage, her work has been programmed at the Royal Court, Paines Plough, The Arcola and Nottingham Playhouse amongst others.
Kefi is taking part in the Bafta Crew Games 2021 cohort with the BFI for the second year running.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Jessica Cooper
+44 (0)20 7393 4488
Email Jessica Cooper
An impressive film about a pair of car thieves in the north of England combines social commentary, poignant drama and lyrical cinematography.
The Guardian
on Looted
An impressive first feature.
Mark Kermode
BBC on Looted
"Kefi Chadwick brings a vivid picture of the mutual destructiveness of fraudulent affairs, but also an awareness that collective action can lead to public change."
Michael Billington
The Guardian on Any Means Necessary
"A major achievement for the Nottingham Playhouse... It painstakingly captures the insidiousness of a lie that sullies everything it touches, and destroys the ability to trust."
Peter Kirwan
Exeunt on Any Means Necessary
"A wonderful script from Pannevis and Kefi Chadwick"
Paul Heath
Hollywood News on Looted
CV
Film
Writer & Creator
Political drama based on real life story of the women deceived into long term relationships with undercover police officers. Life rights acquired.
Comedy about six women on an ill-fated hen do.
Drama inspired by the real life story of Syrian refugees resettled in the Outer Hebrides.
Thriller based on real life events at Porton Down in 1950 and the reopening of the investigation into the gassing and killing of servicemen in 1990.
Exclusive life rights acquired.
Comedy Drama.
Screened at 16 Oscar and Bafta nominated festivals including Tribeca, Encounters, Naples Florida, Emdem. Selected by BFI Network and the British Council for their short film portal.
Watch here.
Drama inspired by real life story of child member of the UVF. It screened nationally and internationally including USA and Ireland.
19 minute short. Screenings so far include Rome Independent Film Festival, Rhode Island Film Festival, This is England (France), Colchester Film Festival, Brighton Cine City. Sold to Shorts TV.
Inspired by a true story based on the life of a genetic engineer at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge.
Writer
Funded by Film London, BFI, BBC Films under Microwave Scheme.
★★★★½ - DMovies, ★★★★ - The Guardian, ★★★★ - The Times, ★★★★ - Financial Times, ★★★★ - Total Film, ★★★★ - Filmuforia, ★★★★ - Flickfeast.
Television
Writer & Creator
Writer
Additional Writer and Script Editor across all six episodes in series one. Broadcast C4 in Nov 2020.