Suzy Miller

Screenwriter at Starting Over Show Prods
Screenwriter and Script Consultant

Forest Row, United Kingdom

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About Suzy

Suzy Miller lives near London and her pilot “Walking Gran” was Winner of a Pilot Competition out of nearly 800 scripts platformed by The BBC Writer's Room.

Her first comedic cinematic short One More Guest?, inspired by her mother’s early stage dementia, was produced in 2021. The film was accepted into and placed/won in numerous festivals including an Honourable Mention at the 2023 London International Film Festival, and Nominated Best Short Film & Selected Staff Pick at ARFF International.

Suzy loves to challenge conventional stereotypes, and her portfolio of TV series and Features reflects her own distinctive lens of the world. Her life experiences and compassion for the stories of ‘invisible’ audiences who are currently not adequately represented - whether diverse through age, gender or disability - inform her work.

She has been an eco-activist (staying within the law!), been involved in local politics and has campaigned for more peaceful ways to divorce. Her focus as a writer is to influence positive change. Not tell people what to think, but move them emotionally to consider perspectives they may not have thought deeply about before.

Her portfolio includes screenplays, that have won and been placed in numerous competitions including Monza Film Fest, Screencraft, New York City Int Screenplay Awards and Emerging Screenwriters, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab, World Cine Fest.

Suzy is an alumni of Stowe Narrative Lab 2023, and has been accepted onto the NOSTOS writing retreat for June 2024 (max. 8 participants selected), and completed a screenwriting Masters Degree (Falmouth University).

She has a history as a film editor and working in drama development as a script editor for Channel Four and BBC Films, and was accepted to do a screen/radio writing practice-led PhD at Goldsmiths University where she developed a love for also writing for radio.

Unique traits: I live in a shed in my back garden and can see the sky through the skylight. I support participatory democracy and systems change, speak good French, and try to change the world in my spare time.

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Female

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Wild Camping Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Trapped on a yoga retreat in a family holiday, an ambitious female student loses faith in science as campers turn cannibal, addicted to the petrochemicals in human flesh, their bodies invaded by mycelium imbued with the spirit of the Scientist’s dead mother.
The Nuns’ Referendum Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A reformist Reverend Mother puts the lives of her fellow nuns in jeopardy, by insisting they hold a referendum over whether to expel Jewish families fleeing from the same Italian Nazi, that fathered her illegitimate child. Inspired by true life events. “Jo Jo Rabbit” meets "The Two Popes"Semi Finalist New York City International Screenplay Awards 2022, Official Selection 2022 Oaxaca FilmFest Best Feature Narrative Script, Semifinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 6

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One More Guest? (2021)
Film (short) by Starting Over Show Prods Writer/Producer Star-Crossed Lovers - but Juliette has Dementia. She elopes with her younger lover to escape the dementia home, triggering a showdown between her uptight daughter and well-meaning grandson.