Kulvinder Gill

COMMISSIONED / OPTIONED / PRODUCED WORK

Breaking the News – topical comedy panel show on BBC Radio Scotland. Had material broadcast in Series 21 (2022).

Something Special – educational series for BBC Children’s channel CBeebies. Commissioned to write material for Diwali episode of series 12 – broadcast Nov 2020.

Newsjack – topical satirical sketch show on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Material broadcast in Series 23 (2020), Series 14 (2016) and Series 13 (2015).

X Marks the Spot – short macabre drama – the script won the 2020 Four Minute Screenplay Competition. Click here to watch the film.

Femme Fatale – stage version of 2017 IMDb Script to Screen Award-winning screenplay performed at the Questors Theatre in January 2019. Directed by Peter Gould for a themed evening of short plays about the darker side of social media.

Special Delivery – short drama selected for 30+ festivals including 5 BAFTA-qualifying. One of the winning projects in the Directors UK/ARRI Challenge ALEXA 2018 competition and winner of three best short film festival awards. Directed by Robert Hackett.

Mummy Dearest – black comedy for The Scene 2018 festival at the Tabard Theatre. Directed by Natasha Kathi-Chandra and produced by Get Over It Productions.

Femme Fatale – a darkly comic thriller – writing-directing debut. Short screenplay won the 2017 IMDb Script to Screen Award with a prize of £5000 cash and £1000-worth of hire kit to make the film. World premiere at the FilmBath Festival in November 2017.

Romantic Hideaway – a dark psychological thriller, one of 50 short scripts selected for production for the crowdsourced 50 Kisses anthology feature released in February 2014. Romantic Hideaway was made 6 times by directors in the UK, Ireland, Spain and US.

The World of… Acting – wrote material for a 2011 non-broadcast TV pilot for a themed comedy sketch show produced and directed by Clare Sturges.

The System – commissioned in 2006 to write a one hour romantic comedy drama for a proposed BBC One anthology series called The Evening Play.

Cybertecs – BBC held an option on this half-hour children’s comedy drama in 2001. Now a spec script again – details below.

The Real McCoy – commissioned and produced writer on the first series of the BBC Two comedy sketch show – originally broadcast 1991, currently streaming again on iPlayer.

SPEC SCRIPTS

Flesh and Blood – contained feature thriller with a cast of just three, all-female – a chained and isolated Teen battles her crazed Mother to escape her bedroom prison.

• Stage adaptation longlisted for 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award.
• The #1 top rated screenplay on Coverfly’s Red List at the start of 2020.
• Reached last 15 (out of 1000+ submissions) in the 2018 Red Planet Prize.
• Finalist (top 100 out of 6364 scripts & top 10 in thriller/horror) 2017 PAGE Awards.
• Semi-Finalist (top 151 out of 7102 scripts) in 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships.
• Shortlisted for the jury stage of the BAFTA Rocliffe Film Competition 2016.
• Semi-Finalist (top 149 out of 6915 scripts) in 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships.
• Shortlisted (top 40 out of 3100) in BBC Writersroom Scriptroom 10 in 2016.

Big Muff – ensemble workplace sitcom set in a music rehearsal studios called Big Muff where the dysfunctional staff interact with real life music acts.

• BCG Pro Spring Sitcom Selection 2022 winner, chosen by producer Gina Lyons.
• Table read in 2011 at London Comedy Writers, Upstairs at the Old Kings Head.
• TAPS workshopped comedy writer in 2002.

The Life and Deaths of Jim Reaper – feature comedy – accident-prone hitman enjoys great success without ever killing anyone – think Pink Panther meets Final Destination.

• Quarter-finalist (top 10%) in the Shore Scripts 2019 Feature Contest.
• Selected for Script Lab with Jonathan Lynn at 2018 London Screenwriters’ Festival.
• Selected for the Central European Pitch Forum in 2007.

Funny Tinge! – half-hour authored sketch show for a diverse cast to perform provocative character comedy.

• Selected for the BBC Comedy Script Room 2017 (top 12 out of 2672 scripts).

Sleepers – one-hour TV pilot – a sci-fi/horror conspiracy thriller about a secret army of brainwashed killers embedded in society who are triggered by signals from deep space.

• Reached the final 28 (out of 1000+ submissions) in the 2016 Red Planet Prize.
• Longlisted (top 100) in the 2013 BBC Writersroom’s New Year Script Room.

Out on a Limb – 30-minute black comedy – an amnesiac wakes up in a strange bedroom, hand-cuffed to a severed arm, and with the police banging on the door.

• Reached second shift (top 14%) of BBC Script Room 9 (Comedy) in 2015.
• Script gained me a place on the TAPS 2007 continuing drama course.

Cybertecs – TV pilot – Sikh family who run an internet café in Southall, West London, also moonlight as Cyber Detectives investigating impossible “Digital Gothic” mysteries.

• New draft reached last 18 (out of 700 scripts) in 2009 Writersroom CBBC contest.
• BBC held a three-month option in 2001 on the original draft.

The Folks on the Hill – Sitcom pilot – set in a future post-Brexit Britain that has become the 51st state under the third Trump presidency, which has also re-introduced crucifixion. But to save costs, they put two people on a cross, one on each side.

• Won the Guardian Unlimited “Funny Farm” comedy writing competition in 2006.
• Shortlisted (final 30 out 800 scripts) in BBC Two-Timing competition in 2004.
• Originally a series of running sketches for The Real McCoy – but all were dropped at the last moment – except this one which I assume just slipped past compliance! (Link takes you to the show on BBC iPlayer, click on the Play button and it will jump straight to the 2-minute sketch.)

The Mobius Tape – 30-minute standalone – a found-footage thriller, told backwards, via “layers” on a Hi8 video tape.

• Script reached second round of the BBC Writersroom Sharps competition in 2008.