Helen Rana

Helen Rana's six full-length and seven short screenplays have all been selected for film festivals and won awards, including:

  • The Trouble with Superpowers - Winner, Best Super Short Script, Barcelona Indie Awards Winter 2024

  • A Proper Killing - Winner, Best Screenplay Short at San Diego Movie Awards 2024

  • Heist Counter Heist - Finalist, London International Screenwriting Competition 2024

  • Shelley Can’t Sing - Semi-Finalist, NYC International Screenplay Awards March 2024

  • One-Upmanship - Winner, Best Historical Screenplay, Berlin International Screenwriting Festival 2023

  • Search and Rescue - Semi-finalist, 27th Annual Fade In Awards Drama Competition 2023

  • A Good Return - Winner, Best Original Screenplay, Top Film Awards 2022; Gold Script Writing Award from WRPN Women's International Film Festival 2022

  • Desperate Measures - Finalist, Independent International Festival 2022


Helen was a Writer Associate in creative writing at Bath Spa University in 2017-21.

Her short stories have been published in anthologies, and her non-fiction book about organisational cultures, ‘Workplaces’, is on sale in bookshops and online.

Helen became a full-time freelance writer, editor and researcher in 2017.  Her previous career entailed communications and policy roles for diverse organisations such as investment bank JP Morgan, African non-governmental women's rights organisation ZARD, and the Embassy of Finland.

South West (Wessex)



Short stories published in:

  • ‘7.12am - Ironclad Creative: Short Stories’. ASIN: B0D6WKWVZB. Publisher: Ironclad Creative CIC; 1st edition (11 Jun. 2024)



  • ‘Anthology ONE’. ISBN-13: ‎979-8499762516. Publisher: Makarelle (5 Nov. 2021)



  • ‘An Alien Invasion at the Pub: 2021 Anthology’. ASIN: ‎B098LCX617. Publisher: Michael Terence Publishing (2 July 2021)


 

Non-fiction book: ‘Workplaces: The impact of workplace culture on individuals and organisations’. Publisher: Michael Terence Publishing (13 July 2022)

 

 

Books, Film, Short story