Olivia
Hetreed

Olivia Hetreed is a British screenwriter, whose work includes the multi-award winning, BAFTA and Oscar nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson, and the award-winning, critically-acclaimed radical adaptation of Wuthering Heights directed by Andrea Arnold.

Olivia’s international film projects include Bosnia’s first animated feature, Birds Like Us, voiced by Jeremy Irons and Alicia Vikander, Finding Altamira, starring Antonio Banderas and The Journey, Iraq’s Oscar entry this year. She has worked extensively in TV drama (including The Canterbury Tales, The Treasure Seekers, Roman Mysteries) and has a number of projects in current development in the UK and US. Sympathetic Ink, her company with producer Andy Paterson, develops and produces her work and others, including Danis Tanovic’s Tigers.

She has recently been selected for the prestigious NFTS/Disney Diverse Directors Workshop and will be making her directing debut this year.

Olivia is President of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, which represents over 2,000 professional fiction writers. She is an experienced mentor of new writing talent, working with Arvon Foundation, the London Screenwriting Festival, Sarajevo Talent Campus, and several film schools.