Angela Jobson writes for television and audio drama, film and documentary production. A number of her film and TV scripts have won awards, she was a finalist in the Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing for Television Awards and has been long listed for the BBC Alfred Bradley Award for radio drama, shortlisted for ITV Original Voices and the Edinburgh TV Festival Reconnect Scheme, long listed for WBD Northern Writer's Programme and BBC Talentworks Eastenders Scheme. She has taken part in shadow schemes with Channel 4 and ITV, had two feature films optioned and has developed a six part TV series with a well known independent production company. Angela also has experience as a script reader and has worked in a range of roles on both sides of the camera. In 2025 she has been selected for the ISA Writers Development Slate and the BBC Studio Kids and Family Shadow Directors Pool and as one of the ISA's Top 25 Screenwriters to watch in 2026.

Scripts include

	Millennium Eve.	TV series. Thriller about dads and daughters and long maintained family lies.     ♦ Winner of the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay Competition 2025.     ♦ Official Selection Oxford Script Awards 2025     ♦ Top 30% in the All3Media New Writers Collective, Edinburgh TV Festival 2025     ♦ Finalist in the Best Script Award London 2025
	Substitute.	TV series. Comedy thriller set in the world of football.     ♦ Quarter Finalist in the ISA Emerging Drama Contest 2024     ♦ Longlisted in the Warner Brothers Discovery Access Northern Writers Programme 2024     ♦ Selected for Filmarket Hub Pitch Box 2023
	Nighthawks.	4x1hr TV series. Mystery drama set the Durham Dales.     ♦ Winner, Elevate TV Drama Scriptwriting Competition 2026     ♦ Shortlisted in the UK Film Festival Script Competition 2026     ♦ Quarter Finalist in the Manchester Film Festival Screenplay Contest 2026     ♦ Nominated for Best Screenplay in the West Lothian Film Festival 2025     ♦ Red List, Coverfly Top 15% 2025     ♦ Official Selection in the Berlin International Screenwriting Festival 2024     ♦ Selected for The UK Hub List 2023     ♦ Winner, Best TV Pilot in the Scriptwriters&Co International Festival 2023.     ♦ Top 21% in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Contest 2023.     ♦ Top 20% in the All3Media New Writers Collective, Edinburgh TV Festival 2023     ♦ Quarter Finalist (Top 30 scripts) in the Filmarket Hub TV Pilot Script Contest 2022.     ♦ Filmarket Hub Project of the Month September 2022
	Inheritance.	5x1hr TV series. Contemporary psychological drama on the theme of Identity Theft.     ♦ Red List, Coverfly Top 21% 2025     ♦ Finalist in the Drama Script category and selected for pitching sessions, Manchester Lift Off Film Festival 2022.
photo by Natalie Sanderson.	This Place.	Theatre. On the theme of unwanted memories.     ♦ Performed at the Acola Theatre, London 30th July 2022.
photo by Alexander Nadrilyanski	Moonlight54.	3x1hr. TV series. Contemporary mystery drama exploring faulty memory and loyalty.     ♦ Longlisted (Top 20%) in New Voices Script award, Edinburgh TV Festival 2022
	The Last Mail Order Dragon.	12x22min. TV series. Family animated fantasy adventure.
photo by RF_Studio	Antidote.	Radio Drama. Science Fiction on the theme of love, loss and assisted death.
© IWM Q 31088	Grace Lumley.	6x1hr TV series. Mystery drama set in the world of the Women's Police Force during the Great War.     ♦ In development with Warp Films 2017-2018.
	Hollyoaks.	Shadow episode 4109. Working from story documents and existing serial at production pace.     ♦ Lime Pictures shadow scheme for finalists of the Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing for Television Awards.
photo by Marcus Aurelius	Getting to Know ME.	Episode 2, You. Web Series exploring the impact of a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis diagnosis. Worked with Action for ME during development.
	Hearts and Minds.	Feature Film. Adventure following medical charity workers trapped in Afghanistan.     ♦ Finalist in the Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing for Television Awards.
photo by Mary Taylor	The Whizz Gang	Episode 1, Twenty Seven. Web series on the theme of male suicide.
	Stolen.	30min. TV Drama.   ♦ Finalist in the Ideas Tap Inspires: BBC Writersroom contest.
photo by Amin Asbaghipour	Upside Down.	45min. Radio Drama.     ♦ Longlisted in the BBC's Alfred Bradley Award.
	The Royal Today.	5x30min ITV. Daytime soap. Series cancelled before production of block commenced.

Short Films

Bride & Gloom

Written by Angela Jobson

Produced by Concept Pictures. Directed by Gurbaksh Ronak Singh. Staring Poppy Jhakra (Holby City, Waterloo Road, Coronation Street, Red Rose), Mark Stobbard (Line of Duty, George Gently, 55 Degrees North, The Silence) and Bill Fellows (Broadchurch, Wolf Blood, Downton Abbey, Coronation Street).

Festival Awards:

Court Metrage Official Selection at the Cannes International Film Festival

Audience Award at the East End Film Festival

Best Short Comedy at the End of the Pier International Film Festival

Films of Faith Premier Award at the Insight Festival

Best Short Film Award Short Soup International Film Festival (Australia)

Runner up in the Audience Award, Saltburn Film Festival

Official Selection Lift-Off Online Sessions

Innocence

Written by Angela Jobson

Commissioned by Barnardos as part of their educational programme for youngsters at risk from sexual explotation, produced by Concept Pictures. During development Angela worked with victims of abuse to ensure that the film was a true reflection of the dangers encountered by youngsters across Britain. The film is included on a DVD distributed to schools and youth groups through the UK.

Festival Awards:

Best Screenplay Award at the Rob Knox Film Festival.

Screened at East End Film Festival, Kinofilm, London Short Film Festival and Saltburn Film Festival

Into the Heart

Written and Directed by Angela Jobson

Into the Heart was a winning film in Northern Film & Media and New Writing North's Words and Vision Contest. The contest linked regional poets, novelists and theatre writers with filmmakers. Writers were invited to submit an original poem which responded to the title of Sense of Place, film makers then submitted an idea inspired by one of the selected poems. Five film scripts were selected by a panel which included the poets, the prize was a production budget of 1,000 pounds for each scriptwriter.

Taking on board the theme of a sense of place, this film explores the relationships between time and place and also the boundaries of place which are imposed on us by society.

Into the Heart was inspired by the poem, The Other Woman, by Lizzie Whyman.

To walk into the heart of a colour

Is to change yourself forever

I heard this on the radio once

and think of it when you arrive

warm from a family, with freckles

of yellow pain on your forehead.

These years, in public, at parties,

I have had the patience of a pointillist..

I am ready to show you now,

my love of uncomfortable silences.

Obsession

Written and Directed by Angela Jobson

Abigail's obsession has dire consequences when she decides to take a sickie and go in search of her TV hero.

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