Rebecca Frayn

Rebecca Frayn is a novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker and environmental activist.

As a filmmaker she has originated and directed a wide range of critically acclaimed documentaries for Channel 4, the BBC, ITV, HBO and YouTube on subjects close to her heart, ranging from Identical Twins/Channel 4 to a portrait of power and patriarchy in Tory Wives/ BBC2, to Asylum/Channel 4, a meditation on a mental hospital being converted into a gated community for the wealthy which was shortlisted for a Mental Health In The Media award. She has also directed television drama, including a topical single film about father’s rights, Whose Baby? starring Sophie Okonedo and Andrew Lincoln.

She has written 3 screenplays that champion women’s stories including The Lady for Europa Corp, the screenplay she originated and wrote about Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician, which was awarded the International Human Rights Film Award with Amnesty International. She also originated and wrote Misbehaviour for Pathe, starring Kiera Knightley, Jessie Buckley and Gugu Mbatha Raw, which was released in every UK cinema to rave reviews and listed for outstanding British film of 2021.

She has published two well reviewed novels which touch in different ways on sensitive issues of our times, One Life and Deceptions for Simon and Schuster. Her forthcoming third novel, Lost in Ibiza, set in Ibiza, tells a story of family secrets and dramatises some of the most urgent environmental themes of our times.

As an environmentalist, she has made a number of short films to raise awareness on green issues, and co-founded the environmental lobbying group Climate Action Now with a group of fellow female creatives. In 2008, she was nominated by the Evening Standard as one of the 100 Most Influential Environmental Campaigners of the Year.

She is currently working on Can Pep, a large-scale regenerative farm project in the north of Ibiza.

Her novel, Lost in Ibiza will be published in April 2014. Rebecca is currently working on a screenplay adaptation for the BFI.

Contacts

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