Helen Rana

Region: South West (Wessex)

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

  • Heist Counter Heist – Winner, Best Crime Screenplay at Best Script Award London Autumn 2024; Finalist, London International Screenwriting Competition; 3rd place (Nominee) Best Feature Screenplay, Lonely Wolf Film Fest 2024
  • A Good Return– Winner, Best Women’s Film at Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival 2024; Winner, Best Original Screenplay, Top Film Awards 2022; Gold Script Writing Award from WRPN Women’s International Film Festival 2022
  • Shelley Can’t Sing – Winner, Best Feature Screenplay at PyraMax Film Awards 2025; Semi-Finalist, Red Flight Pictures Screenplay Awards 2024; Semi-Finalist, NYC International Screenplay Awards March 2024
  • One-Upmanship – Winner, Best Historical Screenplay, Berlin International Screenwriting Festival 2023; Winner, Best Feature Script in the Royal Wolf Film Awards April 2022
  • A Proper Killing – Winner, Best Screenplay Short at San Diego Movie Awards 2024; Nominated for Best Short Script at the Top Indie Film Awards (Winter Edition 2024)
  • Breathtaking – Winner, Best Short Script, Golden Nugget International Film Festival 2024
  • The Trouble with Superpowers – Winner, Best Super Short Script at Barcelona Indie Awards Winter 2024; Nominated for Best Short Script, Independent Horror Movie Awards 2024

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.

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Writer's credits

  • Short story in ‘7.12am – Ironclad Creative: Short Stories’, Ironclad Creative, 2024
  • Non-fiction book ‘Workplaces: The impact of workplace culture on individuals and organisations’, Michael Terence Publishing, 2022
  • Short stories in ‘Anthology ONE’, Makarelle, 2021 and ‘An Alien Invasion at the Pub: 2021 Anthology’, Michael Terence Publishing, 2021
  • Chapter on disaster management and business resilience in ‘Dealing with Disasters’, British Chambers of Commerce, 2009
  • Co-edited non-fiction book and chapter in ‘Volunteer Tales: Experience of Working Abroad’, Lutterworth, 2003
  • Academic articles in, e.g. The Regional Historian Journal 2023, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management 2023; Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2022
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