Elaine Purnell

Elaine Purnell

Screenwriter and Translator

Brussels, Belgium

Member Since:
September 2016
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About Elaine

I write psychological drama and comedy. Three of my scripts were shortlisted this year in two British screenwriting competitions. One of these is a comedy about the EU, currently looking for a producer.

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  • Faceless

    Faceless Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A British European Union official in Brussels battles three demons : Climate change, the all-powerful oil lobby and expat loneliness. Which one will kill him first?

  • The Honey Trap

    The Honey Trap Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama A spy falls in love with a target and discovers patriotism is not enough.

  • The Kettlewatcher

    The Kettlewatcher Sci-fi Fantasy An academic searching for dark matter causes a rip in space-time where her secret desires become a nightmare.

  • The Garden

    The Garden Budget: $100K - $1M | Fantasy A widow moves to an English village for a fresh start where she meets a struggling artist. He is obsessed with the theme of death in Flemish primitives and we enter a story of many worlds.

  • Mush-mush

    Mush-mush Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy After a ruinous divorce a scientist moves into an old Victorian building full of social cases who help him make the discovery of the century.

  • A Shropshire Lad

    A Shropshire Lad Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A 55 yr-old curmudgeon with an agoraphobic wife and an unfulfilled dream meets an old flame who once rejected him and discovers everything he ever thought about himself was wrong.

  • Scout

    Scout Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi Comedy An alien from an advanced race is sent to earth as a Scout. He must mate with a human female to introduce their ‘empathy gene’ to human DNA with the intention of ending war before the humans begin space travel. But he has no idea how humans reproduce

Education

  • Bath University, UK

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