A great story well told resonates with viewers all over the world. I create political thrillers about social injustice which aim to generate discussion about and action on important global issues.
I have the ultimate respect for screenwriting as a craft so I trained to the highest level on The ProSeries Professional Screenwriting Program delivered by Los Angeles company ScreenwritingU.
Completed Screenplays
Cracks In The Ice
Quarterfinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2016
Synopsis for Cracks In The Ice – inspired by actual events
In 1999, Ryan Turner, a daring New York journalist, haunted by his failure to save a girl from rape and murder during the Rwandan genocide, returns to Africa – this time to war-torn Sierra Leone – in the hope of breaking a society-changing story to purge his guilt. He discovers the corrupt, megalomaniac President of neighboring Liberia is brutalizing Sierra Leone’s population and stealing blood diamonds to fund a major terror attack against the US. To silence Ryan permanently, the President lays a lethal trap by kidnapping his cameraman’s 10-year-old daughter. Ryan must choose between risking his life to save the girl or breaking the story to save his country.
Endorsement of Cracks in The Ice
“Such a powerful and disturbing story. So brutal, heartless and upsetting. But a great story and one certainly worth telling!” – Mark W. Travis, Acting Coach on The Young Messiah; Author of The Film Director’s Bag of Tricks.
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Fiona Ashe – Screenwriting & Script Editing Training/Experience
- Graduate of The ProSeries Professional Screenwriting Program, ScreenwritingU, Los Angeles.
- Graduate of The Professional Rewrite Class, ScreenwritingU, Los Angeles.
- Graduate of Writing The Profound Screenplay, ScreenwritingU, Los Angeles.
- Graduate of The Mini-Movie Method, ScreenwritingU, Los Angeles.
- Screenwriting Masterclasses taught by Robert Towne, Chinatown and Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver.
- Graduate of Mythological Archetypes in Screenwriting. Tutor: Dara Marks.
- Graduate of BBC Script Editing, London. Tutor: Philip Shelley.
- Graduate of Script Reading Training, The Script Factory (UK) / Northern Ireland Screen.
- Employed as a (part-time) Script Reader, Northern Ireland Screen (2013–14)
- Book Editor of 31 Years of Hell! 1914–1945 – a concise history of the two world wars and the interwar years (2016)
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