Jacqueline Marett

I am a writer and have always written in various forms, but came to screenwriting by accident and being brutally honest, pure desperation. In 2012 following a separation, I completed a PGCE at the Institute of Education to convert my Science Degree into a teaching qualification but subsequently failed to make ends meet as a cover teacher. I was considering other strings to my bow when an actress friend declared my writing to be visually powerful and “filmic”. Over the next year I studied screenwriting online, from literature, from other screenplays and invested time on spec projects:

• Semi-finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2022
• Quarter-finalist at Slamdance 2021
• Finalist at London Independent Story Prize 2021
• Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2021
• Semi-finalist Hollywood Just For Shorts 2021
• Quarter-finalist Screencraft 2020 (Drama feature)
• Quarter-finalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Science Fiction/Supernatural TV Pilot) 2019
• Winner at London Film Awards (feature screenplay) 2018
• Winner at Barcelona International Film festival (feature screenplay) 2018
• Finalist at California Women’s Film Festival (feature screenplay) 2018
• Semi-Finalist at Awareness Festival 2018
• Winner at Cannes Film Festival (TV Pilot) 2018
• Finalist ScreenCraft Sci-fi & Fantasy (TV Pilot) 2017
• Quarter-Finalist at Shore Scripts (TV Pilot) 2017
• 1st place winner LAIFFA L.A Independent Film Festival Awards (feature screenplay) 2016
• 3rd Place winner LAIFFA L.A Independent Film Festival Awards (feature screenplay) 2016
• Winner at HIMPF Hollywood Independent Moving Picture Film Festival (feature screenplay) 2016
• Winner Barcelona Film Festival 2016 (feature screenplay)
• Featured Writer: Screenwriters Showcase in Pinewood Studios - Lift-Off Global Network 2018
• Selected to feature in other film festivals including Women’s Independent Film Festival 2016 and Lift-Off Global Network Sci-fi genre lab 2020

Selected to feature in other film festivals including Women’s Independent Film Festival 2016 and Lift-Off Global Network Sci-fi genre lab 2020 My writing has won me a chance to collaborate with top film professionals on major projects. My own favored genres are drama, action/adventure, and perhaps unusually for a woman, science fiction and fantasy. Frustrated by future predictions of dead high-tech worlds, where human arrogance suggests we shall somehow survive in the absence of natural food/water/air life support systems, I set out to write informed and timely sci-fi featuring a high-tech but also biodiverse future. My girl mag of choice is New Scientist. I am excited by and aspire to create emotionally engaging, intelligently crafted, original, visually beautiful stories that are unashamedly commercial.