ABOUT ISLA 

Freelance Script Writer/ Director/ Treatment Writer

BAFTA Crew 2019

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Isla trained as an actress and after achieving a life goal of being in TV comedy series Red Dwarf (she plays Dispensing Machine 34 and 23) she decided to turn her focus to writing and directing. Her first short film PASSENGERS gained her a BFI Future Film nomination, a Best Actress award at Underwire Festival and screened at the BAFTA New Film Makers Market.

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She is a John Brabourne and Genera Films award recipient, the funds from which have helped produce new short film CANVEY ISLAND. Her next short film REPRISE is supported by the BFI and is currently in post production.

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Her feature script THE TIDES, a modern day Romeo & Juliet, has recently won the Grand Prize at the Cinefluential Screenwriting Contest.

In early 2018 she was one of 6 selected for the New Welsh Playwright Programme with the Sherman Theatre and her play OBSERVATIONS OF A SPARROW received a rehearsed reading at THEATRE 503 in December. She was also shortlisted for Little Pieces of Gold at Southwark Playhouse and was commissioned to write a short play for The Other Room.

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She is co-writing features SPARK, set in a fictional London riots and THE CORPS, a military film created from interviews with past and present soldiers and their families.

Her debut feature film HALCYON HEIGHTS, starring Sheila Reid, Diana Weston, Mark Jordon and Reuben Johnson is now at completion and amongst official selections, has come in the top 3 in the Best Low Budget Feature category at the Toronto Independent Film Awards, won Best Feature Film at the International Film Festival of Wales and an Award of Excellence at the Depth of Field Film Festival. 

Isla is director of THE TOMMY VINE FUND, an arts charity that makes the arts accessible to all. Always looking for people to support.

CV 2019

CONTACT

isla.ure(at)googlemail.com.com

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contact(at)thetommyvinefund.com