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CAMERON HEYES is an emerging screenwriter with a sharp northern wit and cinematic imagination. With several scripts ready for both British and international audiences, Cam's ability to take realism, dry northern humour, and grit in dialogue has strong potential to set him apart in his writing style. He is no stranger to the entertainment industry having been a visual storyteller in music for nearly 20 years. Directing music videos for some of today's biggest artists.
ORIGINAL SCRIPTS
THE FORBIDDEN
TV PILOT • HORROR
A retelling of Clive Barker's short story The Forbidden, returning to the legend of Candyman for a dark, unsettling new exploration of one of the most iconic stories of modern horror. Set in the 1990s in Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, Cabrini-Green.
SEEN
FILM • HORROR
A woman convinced she is being watched is plunged into a waking nightmare as a sadistic stalker begins brutally murdering the people closest to her, leaving her isolated, terrified and questioning her own sanity, until she discovers the killer dismantling her life has a face she knows better than her own.
COME AS YOU ARE
FILM • DRAMA
A famed but hopeless heroin-addicted British rockstar hits rock bottom in the freezing streets of New York, finding a brutal yet fiercely protective lifeline in a no-nonsense Southern deli owner. Together, they embark on a raw, deeply agonizing journey toward recovery.
COMMON WEATH
TV PILOT • COMEDY
A skint working-class former nurse from Manchester lands a nanny job with Britain's most powerful billionaire family, she's thrust into a world of unimaginable wealth, deeply dysfunctional dynamics, and a boss mid-mental breakdown, keeping the children out of trouble might just be the easiest part of the job.
ESTATE OF AFFAIRS
TV PILOT • COMEDY
On Lancashire’s largest and roughest council estate, best friends Kayley, Roxy and Lisa lead the gloriously misunderstood community of Millbrook in a hilarious and heartfelt battle against the local council’s corrupt redevelopment scheme, all while juggling dead-end jobs in a sandwich factory, family drama and life on the breadline.
FIELDS
TV PILOT • CRIME THRILLER
When a teenage girl is found murdered on a remote Lancashire farm, branded with the same pagan symbol linked to a notorious killing thirty years earlier, Detective Angela Dakara must unravel a centuries-old vendetta rooted in the village's infamous witch-trial past before it destroys the family at the centre of the investigation.
EXCUSE ME… I’M TRYING TO DIE
SHORT FILM • EMOTIONAL DRAMA
A man determined to end his life finds his plans repeatedly derailed by unexpected encounters with strangers. This deeply moving and raw short story explores the realness of mental health in Northern England.
HOT ROLLERS
TV PILOT • COMEDY
By day, they're stylists, students, mums, and misfits. By night, they're an underground crew of elite Black female assassins dishing out justice their own way. But when a high-profile hit goes sideways, their double lives unravel forcing them to navigate bullets, blowouts, and betrayal, all while keeping up appearances at the hottest salon in town.