“Regardless of its selling
potential, Fields is an exceptional writing sample that could easily lead to more work for the writer.”
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.
SPEC SCRIPTS
BOOMERANG
FILM • DRAMA
In 1980s Britain, a fiercely independent young Scottish mother must navigate an unfamiliar legal system and the ghosts of her turbulent childhood when her abusive ex-partner takes their baby daughter back to Scotland, forcing her into a relentless fight to bring her home.
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.
SHIPMAN
TV PILOT • TRUE CRIME DRAMA
As Dr Harold Shipman becomes one of the most trusted doctors in his community, nothing could prepare us for him becoming the most prolific serial killer in UK criminal history.
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.
COMMON WEATH
TV PILOT • COMEDY DRAMA
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.
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.
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.
COME AS YOU ARE
FILM • DRAMA
A heroin-addicted British rockstar in a highly publicised downward spiral finds a brutal yet fiercely protective lifeline in a no-nonsense New York deli owner. Together, they embark on a raw, deeply agonising journey towards recovery.
NIGHTMARES
FILM • HORROR
A gifted but troubled young boy is encouraged by his therapist to draw the monsters that haunt his dreams, unaware that each drawing brings to life the real phobias of the people in his life.
THE ANIMALS OF FARTHING WOOD
FILM • FAMILY ADVENTURE
When their woodland home is destroyed by human development, a desperate band of animals, natural enemies bound by an oath not to harm one another must follow a courageous fox across a perilous, human-dominated countryside in search of a distant wildlife sanctuary they can call home.