Amelia O'Loughlin

Amelia is currently working across three feature screenplays with acclaimed UK, Irish & U.S. production houses, including the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated team at Sleeper Films (The Favourite, Brooklyn); IFTA-winning producers at Cowtown Pictures (Rialto, Phil Lynot, Lola), and Virtual Circle’s new partnership with Dimension Studios, Andy Paterson, and Olivia Hetreed (Girl with the Pearl Earring, Wuthering Heights, The Railway Man).

In 2020 she founded award-winning production company Freida Films, she’s since co-produced short films across the UK and Europe - bagging her a spot on the shortlist for 30 Forbes 30 - she’s developing and directing her debut factual feature, IF THE WALLS COULD SPEAK, tracing the past, present and future of the largest female prison in Europe, Islington’s Holloway Prison, with BBC Studios.

Freida Films’ debut I’M STILL ETHAN (2021) was directed by BIFA-nominated Raff Degruttola, music by East-London-lyrical legend Kae Tempest, and starring BAFTA-nominated Dave Johns (I, DANIEL BLAKE). For stage, Amelia wrote and directed THESE FOUR WALLS, in association with Clean Break Theatre Company - a visionary grass-roots organisation where she'd previously collaborated in teaching drama to female ex-detainees. In another life, she curated & hosted events across London, and she’s carried this passion for music into her storytelling; embellishing script with music, spoken-word and poetry.

Amelia likes to build colourful, intense and expansive stories, often with escape, ambition and revolution in the pipeline, and a good dose of bold comedy. She’s drawn to building diverse socio-economic backgrounds and exploring their relationship with characters’ emotional landscapes and psychological journeys. Her screenplay TO BUTCHER A BIRD came runner-up in Cold Smoke Productions Development Award (2021) by producers Valencia Haynes and Harriet Rees, she’s since refined the script for TV - retitled as THINGS YOU DO TO MAKE PEOPLE LOVE YOU - alongside developing original work for TV.