Genet Hughes

Genet is a Black List Recommended Screenwriter. She has a passion to create smart dialogue and complex characters in edgy, original and compelling stories.

Her screenplay, I Think Therefore You Are, was a finalist in the UK Film Festival Feature Script Competition 2023 and the Golden Script Competition 2024, recommended by WeScreenplay (Coverage), reached the top 1% of fantasy features on Coverfly, and has received two 8s from The Black List (one from a Reader and the other from an Industry Member).

Her screenplay, Improv, is signed to BCDF Pictures with a director and lead actress attached after receiving three scores of 8 from The Black List and reaching the final 30 in the Cannes Film Festival Residency.

Her writing is powered by well-honed daydreaming skills and the ability to avoid most household chores. When time allows, she is also a NHS Speech and Language Therapist, wife and mum to two boys.

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