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Sisters of the Red Earth

PILOT

  • Top 2% NFTS x Left Bank / Sony Diverse Writers Development Programme

  • Top 12% BBC Writers Room

  • Top 20% All3Media New Writers Collective

  • Honorable Mention The Finish Line Script Competition

Falangists won the Spanish Civil War. Amid widespread persecution of the ‘Reds’, a recently widowed mother plots to escape the church-run Saturrarán prison and find her abducted daughter.

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Le Prince

FEATURE

with Thomas Mullen​​

 

1890s New York. Artist Lizzie Le Prince watches her husband Louis become consumed by creating the first motion picture camera, unravelling both their marriage and finances. When Louis disappears without a trace, Lizzie ends up face to face with Thomas Edison, who has claimed her husband’s invention for himself. Refusing to let their life be erased from history, Lizzie embarks on a legal battle that will span years and shape the birth of cinema.

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SHORT

  • longlisted for ODEON National Youth Film Awards

​Nightlight 
Half the time I lifted my eyes to the inky sheets above 
The orb reflecting rays 
Mirrored in the black hole surrounded by iris 
It encircled, pushed and pulled 
Unattainable 
Unreliable changeable 
Two-timing witness 
Crescent fading torch 
Celestial dream 
Tomorrownight yesternight tonight 
Delight now listless gleaming 
Unregistered 
Light shrouded from me

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Lighter Shades of Blue

FEATURE

 

Stranded at a London gallery during a storm, a young woman fearing she may have inherited her mother’s illness forms an uneasy connection with an artist trapped in a toxic mentorship. They’re forced to confront the cost of the lives they’re building and what they are losing in the process.

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SHORT

‘I have always known. It’s just part of the everyday for me. Don‘t get me wrong. I don‘t think about it all the time or even every day. I just know. It‘s at the back of my mind, I suppose.’

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©2026 by Maria Messias Mendes.

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