Rebecca is a screenwriter and novelist based in London and Berlin.
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Bio
Rebecca is a London & Berlin-based writer who graduated from the National Film and TV School with an MA in Screenwriting in 2018. She was born in Berlin to a Welsh-Australian father and an English mother and studied screenwriting at the renowned German Film and TV Academy before relocating to the UK in 2015. Her graduation film “Rooftop Refugee,” co-written with writer-director Alexandra Brodski (Somewhere Boy, Rivals, Lion), screened at numerous festivals, including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival and Underwire and picked up an award at the Bundesfestival Junger Film. Since graduating from the DFFB & the NFTS, she was in the writer’s room for the English-language SciFi series “Children of Mars,” and worked as a dialogue writer on the vividly debated Instagram series “Ich bin Sophie Scholl.” She co-wrote the 4th season of the Emmy-nominated series “Charité” with Tanja Bubbel (Biohackers, Kitz, Smilla’s Sense of Snow). The show is will air in April 2024 on ARD and ARTE. In early 2023, Rebecca co-wrote an episode for the upcoming series “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” for Constantin and participated in the Eureka Series programme, a 3-month-long training programme created by Series Mania Institute, delivered in partnership with La Fémis. There she developed the original Danish series “Panic Day” with Rikke Schjødt and Nuno Baltazar. She is currently working with Swiss director Jela Hasler on a feature film and is developing a 6-part series with headwriter Petra Volpe. She is developing another show with Rikke Schjødt and Fredo Films in Denmark. Rebecca is a member of BAFTA Connect 2022 - 2025 and an alumna of the ZFF Academy 2023.
In 2008, shortly before she graduated from high school, Rebecca published her bestselling novel about a young woman growing up amidst Berlin’s booming nightclub culture. She has since published two more novels. Her writing has appeared in various magazines and literary anthologies.
“A novel about the generation Y (...) with cool and compassionate insight Martin tells of the desperate search for existential purpose.”
TV & Film (selection)
2024: Die Kunst des Verschwindens, feature, Soleen Yusef attached to direct, DCM (GER)
2023 - 2024: To Put Out One Fire, feature, co-written with Jela Hasler, directed by Jela Hasler, Langfilm (CH); Development funding by Zürcher Filmstiftung and Bundesamt for Kultur 2023, Pop Up Film Residency/Fårö 2024
2023: N.N., 6pt series, co-written with Petra Volpe, Zodiac (CH)
2023: Unicorn, 6pt series, co-created with Rikke Schjødt, Fredo/Global Ensemble (DK/NOR)
2023: Panic Day, 8pt series, co-created with Nuno Baltazar and Rikke Louise Schjødt, Apple Tree Productions (DK)
2020 - 2022: Charité 4, 6pt series, co-written with Tanja Bubbel, directed by Esther Bialas, UFA Fiction, ARD/ARTE (GER); Premiering on the 4th April on ARTE and the 5th of April 2024 on ARD
2022: Iss das jetzt, wenn du mich liebst, feature, co-written with Antonia Leyla Schmidt, Constantin (GER)
2022: N.N., series concept, Trima/X-Filme (GER)
2021: Ich bin Sophie Scholl, Instagram-series, dialogue writer, Unframed/Vice/Sommerhaus (GER);Winner Banff Rockie Awards 2022 (Best Short Fiction Programme); Prix Italia 2022
2019: Children of Mars, series, staff writer/writer’s room, Neuesuper/BetaFilms (GER)
2018: Rooftop Refugee, short, co-written and directed by Alexandra Brodski, NFTS (UK); Premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sustainability Award at Bundesfestival Junger Film
2017: Tilda and Laila, short, co-written and directed by Alexandra Brodski, NFTS (UK)
2016: Nina, short, co-written and directed by Alexandra Brodski, NFTS (UK); Special Mention for Best Foreign Film at Earlybird Student Film Festival
Books
2015: Nacktschnecken, Dumont (GER)
2012: Und alle so yeah, Dumont (GER)
2008: Frühling und so, Anais (Spiegel-Taschenbuchbestseller, GER)
Awards & Scholarships
2023: ZFF Academy, Zurich
2022 - 2025: BAFTA Connect membership, London
2022: DAAD Scholarship for ‘Islands’
2020: Sustainability Award at Bundesfestival Junger Film for ‘Rooftop Refugee’
2019: Screenwriting nomination at Underwire Festival for ‘Rooftop Refugee’
2019: Residency at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen and Villa Sarkia, Finland
2019: Special Mention for Best Foreign Film for ‘Nina’ at Earlybird Student Filmfestival
2017 - 2018: DAAD Scholarship for Film
2016: Prix Marcela Delpastre at Poetbewegt
2009: Winner Playwriting Competition, ITI Germany
2009: Treffen Junger Autoren, Berliner Festspiele
Training
2023: Eureka Series (Series Mania Institute), Lille
2016 - 2018: MA in Screenwriting, National Film and TV School, Beaconsfield
2013 - 2017: Screenwriting degree, German Film and TV Academy, Berlin
2011 - 2012: Hamburg School of Ideas (Texterschmiede), Copywriting diploma