Johnno Maxwell

Gran Senhor at Babyface Media
Filmmaker, Producer, Editor and Screenwriter

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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May 2022

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About Johnno

Serial worrier and drinker of good coffee, Maxwell teaches screenwriting at Liverpool JM University and he writes books and screenplays about weird happenings and mishappenings.

NOVELS:

THE HARRIET FARRELL BOOKS including the offbeat Western Thriller, WATER STREET

THE BING BONG HOOLIHAN BOOKS including contemporary spy thriller CAMPER VAN WOMAN

Represented by Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency.

SCREENPLAYS:
Developing SPY SCHOOL along with a pan-European Writers' Room

For further information about these projects, please contact me via Stage 32.

Producer of:
David Morrissey's DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME (2010) - Official Selection BFI London Film Festival

THE BE ALL AND END ALL (Josh Bolt, Neve McIntosh, Liza Tarbuck) (2009)- Official Selection Karlovy Vary, Rome, Monte Carlo

Director of:
VIOLET CITY - a gothic steampunk fantasy (with Olivier Award Winning actor George Maguire).

Former in-house producer at actor David Morrissey's Tubedale Films.

Former commissioner and Executive Producer for the UK Film Council Digital Shorts Initiative.

Unique traits: Don't make any sudden moves because Johnno's hands are lethal weapons. Well, not really but he'll give you a dirty look and then you'll be in trouble.

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Mixed

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SPY SCHOOL Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy The salacious goings-on at a London College of Slavonic Studies back in 1991, with the fall of the USSR and acid house all bubbling around a plot that will change history. Based upon true events - the two writers attended this college in the early 1990s.
LONDONOPOLIS Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi Alexandra Brontay wakes up in a Siberian forest missing a kidney and thousands of miles from her subterranean London home. She got suckered into a honeytrap that will lead to revolution in this mind-bending offbeat dystopian animation series. This is what happens when the whole sh*thouse falls in.

Credits

VIOLET CITY (2010 - 2015)
Film by Babyface Media (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Animation and Film-Noir) Director Full gothic Steampunk Gothic Dark Fantasy feature film with carnivorous plants, cannibal aristocrats and the end of the world. An interdimensional fissure of an acid pool is the thin barrier between the forces of oblivion Naal and this world. A ripping New Weird free movie adventure.
PART VAMPIRE (2014)
Film (short) by Babyface Media (Comedy and Horror) Director When Ned, a veteran of all the Twilight Films (body double) goes for an audition, he has reason to get excited. This is his first big break, the chance to play the leading man in an earnest, gritty Vampire movie. The only problem is that the producers expect him to take method acting a little too far.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME (2007 - 2011)
Film by Tubedale Films (Comedy and Drama) Producer The directorial debut feature from David Morrissey - trailer. Produced by John Maxwell
THE BE ALL & END ALL (2008 - 2009)
Film by Whatever Pictures (Comedy and Drama) Producer At fifteen, Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfill his final wish? His best friend Ziggy. Liza Tarbuck, Neve Mcintosh, Josh Bolt, Eugene Byrne