Acting
Jun 16, 1990
North London, England, UK
Alannah Olivia
Acting
Biography
Alannah is a writer/director from Cyprus and Egypt with a particular interest in creating diverse stories for the unrepresented. Alannah grew up in North London, where all the Cypriot’s live surrounded by kebab juice and Churches. After being kicked out of school, Alannah began performing as an outlet for a lot of energy! Alannah created a teaser for an original TV show called OLIVES, which was then taken into development with BBC Drama. She is also writing two episodes of an original horror TV series for Channel 4 Drama with The Forge. Alannah has an original, action/adventure drama series SAVAGE in development with BBC Drama and Eleven Films. Alannah is currently writing an episode of SWEETPEA for Sky, and was recently in the writers room for Season Two of Boarders for the BBC. Alannah was also in the writers room for Delicious (Sky) and Flack starring Anna Paquin. Alannah’s short film that she wrote and directed; Taarof ‘a verbal dance’ is now available on the BFI website for a year as part of a season of films curated by Tape Collective called ‘But where are you really from?’ exploring mixed heritage identity. The film will also be showing at the BFI Southbank this summer. Alannah’s debut feature film I DON’T EAT MEAT! which was developed through Creative England Ifeatures scheme, is now in development with the BFI and Film 4.
Feature Films (4)
A schoolgirl with amnesia wakes to a deadly ultimatum. Will she get to the library in time to avoid disembowelment?
7.2
A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record.
Kill Your Friends
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
Mindhorn
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Thor: The Dark World
Television & Series (4)
An adaptation of Raymond Briggs' children's classic that mixes live action and CGI animation to follow the adventures of a family of green monsters who live in the slimy underground world of Bogeydom. Fungus and his wife Mildew suspect their son Mould is illicitly dabbling in human culture, sparking a family argument that sees the boy flee to the surface. Above ground in Daventry, Daryl Hedge's go-getting wife Wendy won't let him forget it that he is unemployed, while his daughter Lucy has fallen for a disagreeable older boy called Dean.
Fungus the Bogeyman
This mockumentary goes behind the microphone of Kurupt FM - the second most popular pirate radio station in West London, receiving up to eight texts per show and playing the finest in UK garage and drum 'n' bass. Co-founded by the MC Sniper and DJ Beats in 2002, the station has now built up a following of over a hundred people and has attracted the attention of the BBC who are making a documentary about the lives of those behind Kurupt FM
People Just Do Nothing
Andy is a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew Errol after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister Sam - all on the day Andy was planning to kill himself. Not a natural with either kids or responsibility, he tries to keep his new charge out of trouble while being knee-deep in it himself.
Uncle
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