Joe is a screenwriter specialising in character-led, emotionally grounded feature films that explore connection, resilience, and second chances.
Completed Screenplays
Hope at Christmas is a contemporary Christmas drama that uses a gently magical lens to tell a grounded, emotionally honest story about grief, guilt, and reconnection.
When a fractured family is forced to confront the aftermath of a life-changing accident, an unlikely guide, a street dog named Hope, becomes the thread that draws them back together.
Balancing warmth, humour, and emotional weight, the film explores the idea that healing rarely arrives loudly or neatly, but through small acts of love, presence, and forgiveness. It is a Christmas story for adults as much as families; hopeful, heartfelt, and quietly transformative.
A Dish Served Cold is an impact-led psychological drama created for the festival circuit.
Using minimal dialogue and visual storytelling, the film explores silence, complicity, and the emotional cost of enduring harm behind closed doors.
It resists sensationalism, instead relying on psychological tension and symbolism to examine power, loyalty, and the moment a woman chooses to stop surviving and start taking control.
My debut novel, Three Fat Singletons, is a hilarious, heart-warming, and unapologetically real story about three lifelong friends who are fed up with life’s disappointments, and decide it’s time to chase laughter, love, and a little adventure under the sun.
The Three Fat Singletons screenplay secured me a place at the Rocaberti Writers’ Retreat, where I spent a week developing the script alongside authors and producers at Miles Copeland’s château, the Marouatte Castle in France.
The screenplay was mentored by Linda Seger, focusing on character, structure, and adaptation from page to screen.
The sequel to Three Fat Singletons, Changing Seasons continues the story of Jesse, Mary, and Dotty as they navigate a new phase of life shaped by love, loss, and personal growth.
In 2024, I was awarded a partial scholarship to the Rocaberti Writers’ Retreat, where I spent a week at Sant Mori Castle developing the screenplay under the mentorship of Emmy-winning writer Stan Zimmerman.
The Changing Seasons screenplay is currently in its final edit.
Projects in Development
The Light Inside is a screen adaptation of an illustrated children’s book collaboration with Glenys Reynolds.
A soft, magical story centred on self-worth and emotional resilience, the film gently reminds young audiences that the light they are searching for has always lived inside them. Designed to comfort, empower, and reassure, the story speaks directly to children navigating big feelings in a busy world.
The project is being developed as an animated children’s film or series, with a strong educational and wellbeing focus. A familiar presence within the story is Hope, who appears as a gentle, guiding companion, offering reassurance rather than instruction.
The Light Inside sits at the intersection of storytelling, emotional literacy, and visual warmth, with potential applications across children’s media, education, and wellbeing spaces.
Female-led limited series told entirely from the POV of the women involved.
Focuses on silence, loyalty, complicity, survival, and the emotional cost of loving someone involved
in crime – with sharp, often dark humour.
One Last Time is a psychological thriller about survival, recovery, and the long shadow of abuse. After a brutal assault by her powerful, controlling husband, Sophie Cartwright escapes England and retreats to the isolation of rural Maine, determined to rebuild a life that finally belongs to her.
In the quiet of the forest, Sophie begins again, painting, growing her own food, and learning how to feel safe in her own body. A tentative friendship with a local architect offers the possibility of connection, while the constant presence of her closest friend back in England becomes an emotional lifeline. But healing is fragile, and safety is never absolute. The past has a way of finding its way back in.
Set against the stark beauty of Maine’s wilderness, One Last Time is a tense, emotionally grounded thriller about the strength of female friendship, the courage it takes to trust again, and what it means to choose survival, not once, but every day.
After a sudden, catastrophic flood cuts them off from civilisation, twelve women on a remote Welsh
retreat must confront fear, belief, and each other to survive.
Female ensemble, contained survival thriller with international appeal and strong thematic focus on
belief, leadership, and group dynamics.
In development
