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Abigail Davies joined UWE in 2008 to teach screenwriting and video production, after working in film and television for 25 years.
Abigail started her career in factual television working first as a researcher on network production and then as a producer and director for the regional ITV West schedule. Highlights included a range of arts and culture series for Channel4 with presenters such as Sir Roy Strong, Christopher Frayling and George Melly and an award winning documentary film on Don McCullin, the veteran war photographer.
Between 1998 and 2002, Abigail was Commissioning Editor, Arts, Documentary and Drama for HTV West, the ITV regional broadcaster where she in charge of 40 hours of production annually aimed at developing new indie talent in the region. As well as mentoring 70 new documentary makers, she commissioned Western Lights and the South West Production Fund two drama production schemes for 40 first time writers and directors. Alongside, she developed a slate of network drama projects including Just Desserts, which was nominated for an RTS Award in 2001 and successfully pitched to Living TV.
Area of expertiseAlongside her teaching, Abigail regularly continues to work professionally as a producer and script editor. Most recently, she script edited and executive produced Life Out There, for VS1 Productions http://www.vs1.org/productions.html This half-hour television drama directed by David Ellington was commissioned by the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust for broadcast on Film4 and The Community Channel . The film has already been selected for several international film festivals winning Best Director at Milan’s Cinema of the Deaf and Best Actor and Best DOP at the Tolosa International Film Festival in Sign Language in Spain and is now nominated for Best Newcomer Award at the 2013 RTS South West Region Awards.
Abigail is regular script editor to writers Martin Brennan and Michael B. Jackson on their slate of projects with funding from Northern Irish Screen, including 13 Coins, a trilogy of comic book fantasy action films, The Mulbury Project, a sci-fi road movie, ROBBIE, a robot stoner movie and a film adaptation of the novel 11 Emerald Street.
She is also a regular mentor for First Light, the Film Council's young people's filmmaking scheme and an advisor to the Board of Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival.
My Publications
Abigail started her career in factual television working first as a researcher on network production and then as a producer and director for the regional ITV West schedule. Highlights included a range of arts and culture series for Channel4 with presenters such as Sir Roy Strong, Christopher Frayling and George Melly and an award winning documentary film on Don McCullin, the veteran war photographer.
Between 1998 and 2002, Abigail was Commissioning Editor, Arts, Documentary and Drama for HTV West, the ITV regional broadcaster where she in charge of 40 hours of production annually aimed at developing new indie talent in the region. As well as mentoring 70 new documentary makers, she commissioned Western Lights and the South West Production Fund two drama production schemes for 40 first time writers and directors. Alongside, she developed a slate of network drama projects including Just Desserts, which was nominated for an RTS Award in 2001 and successfully pitched to Living TV.
Area of expertiseAlongside her teaching, Abigail regularly continues to work professionally as a producer and script editor. Most recently, she script edited and executive produced Life Out There, for VS1 Productions http://www.vs1.org/productions.html This half-hour television drama directed by David Ellington was commissioned by the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust for broadcast on Film4 and The Community Channel . The film has already been selected for several international film festivals winning Best Director at Milan’s Cinema of the Deaf and Best Actor and Best DOP at the Tolosa International Film Festival in Sign Language in Spain and is now nominated for Best Newcomer Award at the 2013 RTS South West Region Awards.
Abigail is regular script editor to writers Martin Brennan and Michael B. Jackson on their slate of projects with funding from Northern Irish Screen, including 13 Coins, a trilogy of comic book fantasy action films, The Mulbury Project, a sci-fi road movie, ROBBIE, a robot stoner movie and a film adaptation of the novel 11 Emerald Street.
She is also a regular mentor for First Light, the Film Council's young people's filmmaking scheme and an advisor to the Board of Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival.
My Publications
- Sobers, S. and Davies, A. and HTV West (1999) Footsteps of the Emperor. [Video]