Celine Cotran

Celine is an award-winning British-Lebanese writer and director, with a focus on genre bending stories in Film and TV. Her previous work has been supported by Sky, the BFI, Doha Film Institute, Trademark Films and Goldfinch: First Flights.
 
LEGS is a feature currently in development and based on a proof-of-concept short starring Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey). A darkly comic body horror, the project was awarded Goldfinch: First Flights’ 2021 film fund. The short screened in competition at Sitges Film Festival 2022, and has since screened at a number of BAFTA and Academy Award Qualifying Festivals. 

LAYLA IN DREAMLAND is a feature being developed with BFI Network and mentored by Will Clarke (Altitude Film Entertainment). A coming-of-age skateboarding drama exploring UK migrant culture,  the project has been supported by Edinburgh International Film Festival Talents 2019 and Talent Lab Connects 2021, Berlinale Talents 2020 and London Film Festival’s Production Finance Market 2020. 

Writing for TV, Celine’s projects include YA comedy/drama VICIOUS CYCLE, which featured at Sky Table Reads 2022. Other projects include children’s animation MICE OF THE UNDERGROUND (Sundance Episodic Labs shortlisted) and tragi-comedy KNICKERPERV.

Writer’s room credits include MBC|Starling Entertainment’s AIR MEDS.

Celine’s short films have won and been nominated for awards at a number of BAFTA|Academy Qualifying festivals, receiving nearly a million views online. They include children’s drama THE TIME TREE (2018), skateboarding drama LAYLA (2019), documentary THE EDGE OF HOME (2020) and dark comedy, LEGS (2022). Her micro-budget short, DISPOSABLE (written and directed during the pandemic 2020), was nominated for Best Screenwriter in Underwire FF 2022.

She was awarded h Club London’s Film Emerging Creative 2019 and work-shadowed Andy De Emmony under Directors UK Inspire 2020. 

Her favourite filmmakers are Guillermo Del Toro, Billy Wilder, and Agnes Varda.

She is represented by Charlotte Knight at Knight Hall Agency.