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Simon Woodham

... became a full-time screenwriter in 1997. His first commissioned work was for British Independent "Moonstar" - an adaptation of Iain Banks's novel "Canal Dreams".

Subsequent feature film commissions, now at various stages of development, have included: "The Amazon Collection", from James Hamilton-Paterson's novel "Gerontius: A Justified Sinner" - a depression era updating of James Hogg's "The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner"; "Close Quarters" - an original screenplay based on a true story from WW1; "Angels of Mons" - another original, to an unusual specification from an independent producer, about the legendary apparitions on the battlefields of WW1; "My Own Worst Enemy" - a biopic about the poet Rupert Brooke.

Simon's credits also include two half-hour short films: "Ezekiel" (which he co-directed and was part-financed by the BFI) and "The Dance of Shiva", starring Kenneth Branagh, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Paul McGann, which was shortlisted for an Oscar in 2000 and was most recently screened as part of the Imperial War Museum's "Black History Through Film" season.

Simon has done plenty of script doctoring, editing and polishing work, mostly uncredited, including two high-concept features for Hollywood-based "Mondrian Pictures". He has also written treatments for many putative projects to help get them to the development stage, notably "Mata Hari: The True Story" (from the book by Russell Warren Howe); "The Golem" (from the novel by Gustav Meyrink); and "Dylan Hale" (an original story for "Mondrian").

Current projects awaiting greenlight are "A Hero In Time", an adaptation of Royston Ellis's novel about Maldivian folk hero Bodu Thakurufaan for "Dehlavi Films", and a new version of Henrik Ibsen's play "Ghosts".