Abigail Blackmore

Abigail Blackmore (* 20th century ) is a British screenwriter , film director and actress . She achieved international fame for her feature film Tales from the Lodge .

life and career

Starting out as an actress, mainly in London , she played in various short films. In 1999 she was seen in a small role in the movie The Criminal starring Steven Mackintosh , Bernard Hill , Eddie Izzard , Natasha Little and Yvan Attal , directed by Julian Simpson. In 2012 her director Pascal Bergamin gave the lead role in his crime drama Nice Guy . The creative act of playing helped her back to the creative act of writing. and so she took a narrative sketch show to Edinburgh in 2010 , where she wrote the script for the short film Blind Date . This won the audience awards at the Austin Film Festival 2010 and the Los Angeles Film Festival 2011. A few years later, she wrote and directed the multi-award-winning short film Vintage Blood with Indira Varma , Sophie Thompson and Michael Rosen in the leading roles, which is based on the British fantasy and Horror film festival FrightFest celebrated its premiere in 2015 and a few years later made it possible to finance their first feature film.

In 2019 she finally took a seat on the director's chair for the movie Tales from the Lodge after she had previously written the script . She directed the black horror comedy with the cast Mackenzie Crook , Dustin Demri-Burns and Laura Fraser . The cast was completed by Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas and Kelly Wenham . The film premiered on March 9, 2019 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the USA. At the fantasy and horror film festival FrightFest , she was awarded the Screen FrightFest Genre Rising Star Award in August 2019.

Abigail Blackmore is married and has one child (* 2003).

Filmography (selection)

Film director

2019: Tales from the Lodge

scriptwriter

2010: Blind Date (video short film)
2015: Vintage Blood (short film)
2019: Tales from the Lodge

actress

1998: On the Eight Ball (TV short film)
1999: The Criminal
2004: Demon Wheels (short film)
2006: Pulling (TV series, 1 episode)
2010: Blind Date (video (short film))
2012: Holiday Road
2012: Nice Guy
2014: Rest Stop (short film)
2015: Vintage Blood (short film)

Awards

2016: Awarded the Festival Prize in the Best Screenplay category at the Unrestricted View Film Festival for the short film Vintage Blood .
2019: Honored with the Screen FrightFest Genre Rising Star Award at the British fantasy and horror film festival FrightFest

Web links

Abigail Blackmore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Portrait of Abigail Blackmore
Actress Abigail Blackmore's website

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Blackmore, Abigail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Interview with Abigail Blackmore on Tales from the Lodge in The Hollywood News

[2] Tales from the Lodge in The Hollywood Reporter

[3] Interview with Abigail Blackmore in: Getreelmovies

[4] Interview with Abigail Blackmore on Tales from the Lodge in Hollywoodnewssource

[5] Interview with Abigail Blackmore on Tales from the Lodge in Comedy.co

[6] Interview with Abigail Blackmore on Tales from the Lodge in Screendaily