Hannah Patterson's debut play MUCH premiered at The Cock Tavern in 2010. Short plays The Editor and Self-Help have been performed at Hampstead and the Pleasance Theatre, in association with The Factory, Invincible Summer at The Union, and Charity Begins at Home at Waterloo Theatre East. The Weakness in Me and AID, were both winners of the one-act New Plays Project, run by the Jersey Arts Trust in association with Old Vic, New Voices.
Her treatment for feature film script Resistance was shortlisted for The Script Factory’s Serious Screenwriting competition, and the script itself has been selected as a semi-finalist in three competitions this year: the CineStory Screenwriting Award, The Creative World Awards and the Austin Screenplay Competition. Her short film script Dead End was a semi-finalist of the BlueCat Fellini Screenwriting Award 2011 and she has had two shorts commissioned by RADA Films, Five Years On, which premiered at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2011, and Inside. She was recently invited to take part in the Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab.
She is also co-writer and producer of the documentary Shelter in Place, winner of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation’s Pitch Prize, and has written for publications including Sight & Sound, The International Film Guide, Time Out guides and The Guardian, and several books on film.
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