Amanda A. Warne

Original stories for television and film.

Amanda A. Warne is an Australian writer with two decades of experience creating, developing and publishing stories.The Screaming Pen is the creative business behind her writing — established through independent publishing and now expanding into television and feature screenwriting.

Screenwriting

Stories built for the screen.

After twenty years working in books, publishing and story development, Amanda is bringing that experience to television and feature film.Her television pilot Torment has earned recognition across international screenplay and film festivals.Awards & Recognition:Award Winner — iDeal International Film Festival
Award Winner — 7th-RIFF-Roshani International Film Festival
Second Rounder — Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist — Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Honourable Mention — Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
Honourable Mention — New York Film & Female Actress Award
Honourable Mention — Tokyo Film & Screenplay Awards
Honourable Mention — New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Nominee — Golden Pen Script Awards

Selected Projects

 
The monster market

FEATURE | FAMILY
When his beloved Grandma begins mysteriously losing her sense of wonder, a ten-year-old boy who refuses to dream must join the monsters beneath her bed and battle an ancient darkness — using the imagination he fears most.

 
Clear skies

FEATURE | SCI-FI / HISTORICAL ADVENTURE
With WWI looming, an egotistical scientist unveils a device he believes can end war forever. When powerful forces move to seize it, he flees with his heavily pregnant wife and young son — accidentally falling into Inner Earth.

 
Torment

TELEVISION | YA SUPERNATURAL DRAMA / HORROR
When a teenage girl inherits a supernatural legacy, she's forced to recruit her classmates to stop an ancient evil that feeds on their torment — unfortunately she hates their guts.

Experience

Amanda has spent more than twenty years working professionally with stories — as a writer, independent publisher, audiobook producer and script adapter.She has independently published original fiction, co-written works and anthologies featuring stories from multiple authors. Her publishing work has encompassed the entire production process, from development and structural editing through to commissioning artwork, editing, formatting, distribution, marketing and audience development.Alongside her own writing, Amanda has worked collaboratively with other authors as a co-writer, alpha and beta reader, structural editor and anthology contributor.Amanda is also a producer and script adapter with Kokoro Audio, adapting novels into full-cast audio productions. She has worked on The Price of Power, the first book in Michael Michel’s Dreams of Dust and Steel series, and is currently adapting the second book, A Graveyard of Heroes.That breadth of experience has given Amanda an understanding of story from both sides of the page — as a writer creating the work and as a creative professional helping shape the work of others.

The Writer

Amanda is drawn to stories with room to grow.She has always been fascinated by fantasy and the seemingly limitless possibilities of speculative storytelling — worlds that can be entirely new, characters who can exist beyond familiar boundaries, and stories that can explore ideas that ordinary reality cannot.Her creative range is deliberately broad. She moves comfortably between genres, develops distinctly different characters and builds worlds with their own identities, rules and emotional landscapes.Screenwriting has opened another challenge: telling stories through what can be seen, heard and experienced rather than relying on the freedom of the page. The restrictions of the screenplay are demanding, but they have become part of what Amanda loves about the form.After twenty years of writing, she has learned that almost anything can become the beginning of a story. A conversation. A glance. A contradiction. Something someone refuses to say.She is now looking for the right creative relationships to help take those stories further — from the page and into production.

The Screaming Pen

The name began with a simple truth:Amanda writes until her pen screams.What began as the business behind her independent publishing has become the foundation for the next stage of her career.Today, The Screaming Pen brings together Amanda's writing across publishing and screen, with the long-term ambition of developing original stories for television, film and animation.

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