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AMELIA O'LOUGHLIN

FOUNDER| CREATOR | FILMMAKER

British-Irish screenwriter, filmmaker and founder working across film, television and live creative events. Brit List Nominee (2025), Forbes 30 Under 30 shortlist, and Runner-up of Cold Smoke Productions' Development Award, with projects in development backed by the BFI and Screen Ireland alongside BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated teams including Sleeper Films (The Favourite), Cowtown Pictures (Everybody Digs Bill Evans), Freestyle Picture Company (The Florida Project) and Sympathetic Ink (Girl With the Pearl Earring). 

 

I like pacy, character-driven stories that exude extraordinary exchanges buried in ordinary lives. I like subjects that carry a cause. I like worlds that are unusual, unnerving and visceral. I work across commissions, co-writes, writers' rooms and original speculative development in both film and TV. 

 

As founder and director of Freida Films Ltd, I've led the production of multi-award-nominated 'Matilda's Arrived' (Oscar-qualifying; San Jose Film Festival, etc.); BAFTA-adjacent short 'I'm Still Ethan', starring Dave Johns with music by Kae Tempest, which traversed three continents in the festival circuit.

 

Factual work includes 'If The Walls Could Speak' - a portrait on Islington's Holloway Prison and the repercussions of closing services to detained women and their children due to privatising public properties - the project is currently in feature development.

 

I'm the co-founder of an international creative salon for live script-readings, TABLE, with fellow screenwriter Edward Zorab, we present original writing to an audience of potential collaborators i.e. the 'market'. Originating at The Groucho Club on Dean Street, in November 2025, TABLE is an offline renaissance, designed to bring the film and TV industries together around a central object: whether it's the script or the furniture. On the global map: TABLE works with Raindance Film Festival, Soho House and Petit Ermitage, in LA, NYC, Paris and Mumbai. Previous work and cast list can be found here: https://www.tablepictures.com

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Music-loving, avid chef.​ Represented by Eva Bell at Sayle Screen, The Partnership Group

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