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Fiona Ashe

Film Director & Screenwriter

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Screenwriting

A great story well told resonates with viewers all over the world. I create thrillers about social injustice which aim to generate discussion about — and spur action on — important social 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 IceAcademy logo 2

Quarterfinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2016

 

Synopsis for Cracks In The Ice  – inspired by actual events

In 1999, Lexie Turner, a daring New York journalist, haunted by her 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 her guilt. She 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 Lexie permanently, the President lays a lethal trap by kidnapping her cameraman’s 10-year-old daughter. Lexie must choose between risking her life to save the girl or breaking the story to save her 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.

Click here to read about more awards for – and endorsements of – Cracks In The Ice.

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)

To engage my script editing skills to help elevate your screenplay, click here to contact me for a no-obligation quotation.

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Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

In 2016, Cracks In The Ice reached the Quarterfinals of the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which stages the …

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Testimonials

Testimonials

“Shades of Gray is very good.  It was very well directed.” — Jim Sheridan, Oscar-nominated writer/director of 'My Left Foot'. Image …

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Screenwriting

Screenwriting

A great story well told resonates with viewers all over the world. I create thrillers about social injustice which aim to generate …

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Short Films

Short Films

Below are some of the short films directed by Fiona Ashe. Shades of Gray A tough-talking New York private investigator confronts the police …

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About Fiona Ashe

"While working as a foreign news journalist, I discovered lots of stories which fascinated me. I now …

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