Anna Maloney Explained

Anna Maloney is a British television screenwriter.

She won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New writer in 2003 for her Channel 4 television drama Falling Apart, based on interviews with women and men who had experienced domestic abuse.[1] [2] [3] The director, Brian Hill, won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New Director - Fiction for the production.

Sh won the 2017 World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) award for best screenplay in a short film, for Love Somehow, a film about Caitlin Thomas, adapted from Phil Bowen's The Same Boat.[4] [5]

Her 2020 Safer at Home was one of the Unprecedented series of plays produced by the BBC at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, for which cast and crew participated remotely.[6] [7]

She won the 2022 CWA Debut Dagger (now the CWA Emerging Author Dagger) for her forthcoming[8] novel The 10.12.[9] [10] It involves a train hijack, a woman who resists it, and the consequences.[11] She had been longlisted for the same award in 2019 for The Right Man.[12]

Maloney has a degree in humanities from the University of Greenwich and an MA in screenwriting from the University of the Arts London.[13] She lives in south east London.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Television Craft in 2003 . awards.bafta.org . BAFTA Awards . 1 August 2024.
  2. Web site: Falling Apart . www.centuryfilmsltd.com . Century Films . 1 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Brian Hill: Falling Apart . www.curtisbrown.co.uk . 1 August 2024.
  4. Web site: 2017 Winners . wmiff2017 . WMIFF . 1 August 2024 . en.
  5. Web site: Love Somehow - Promotional video . University of Greenwich . 1 August 2024.
  6. Web site: BBC Four - Unprecedented . BBC . 1 August 2024.
  7. Web site: BBC Four - Unprecedented, Series 1, Episode 2 . BBC . 1 August 2024.
  8. Web site: Anna Maloney . David Higham Associates . 1 August 2024 . Anna is working on her debut novel, The 10.12 ....
  9. Web site: The 10:12 . The Crime Writers' Association . 1 August 2024 . en.
  10. Web site: Emerging Author Dagger . The Crime Writers' Association . 1 August 2024 . en.
  11. News: Double Daggers for Celestin at CWA awards as Craven and Hallett also bag prizes . 1 August 2024 . The Bookseller . En . Her novel The 10:12 is about a train hijacking and the woman who leads a counter attack, and the aftermath..
  12. Web site: CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers . The Crime Writers’ Association . 1 August 2024 . en . 2019.
  13. Web site: Anna Maloney . LinkedIn . 1 August 2024.