WRITERS FOR FILM & TELEVISION
FORTUNE
& DEACON
Rebekah Fortune and Rosy Deacon are a co-writing partnership creating bold, character-led horror, thriller and folk horror for film and television.
Their work places disabled and othered characters at the centre of ambitious worlds—not as issues to be explained, but as complex people driving the story.
WHERE THE OVERLOOKED BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
Two distinct voices.One shared slate.
An award-winning writer and director with a long history of creating original work across theatre and film. As Artistic Director of Negativequity, Rebekah co-wrote Arts Council-funded productions with Peter Machen, including Big Boys Don’t Cry, Broken Blossoms and Moll Flanders.
Her screen projects have often begun with stories, characters and worlds she originated before collaborating with screenwriters on the final screenplay. She brings an actor’s understanding of character and a director’s instinct for performance, image and sound.
An award-winning screenwriter whose credits span television and film. Rosy won the International Emmys’ Sir Peter Ustinov Scriptwriting Award for Shards and trained on the Serial Eyes showrunner programme in Berlin.
Her credits include two thrillers for TF1 and A+E and an episode of The Sister Boniface Mysteries for BritBox and BBC Studios. She has also developed work with Warner Bros. Germany and Studio Zentral.
HORROR FEATURE
THE TURNING
When a charismatic magistrate arrives in a remote English village, he weaponises the difference of a family of disabled and neurodivergent women, reshaping law and faith into a cult of obedience that escalates into possession, ritualised trials, and sacrificial violence.
WRITTEN BY REBEKAH FORTUNE & ROSY DEACON
DEVELOPED THROUGH THE BFI AND 104 FILMS D-HORROR DEVELOPMENT LAB
THRILLER / HORROR FEATURE
ARKADIA
A blind heiress who wears ocular implants is haunted by
ghostly visions of her town’s past and must uncover the
secret behind her family business
WRITTEN BY REBEKAH FORTUNE & ROSY DEACON
DEVELOPED BY SCREEN YORKSHIRE FLEX, BFI UK NEXT WAVE GENRE LAB ·
WINNER, 2026 JETS UK PITCH COMPETITION
6 × 60′ FOLK-HORROR TELEVISION SERIES
RETICULUM
When a river suddenly stops in rural Herefordshire, a hydrogeologist discovers a woman embedded in ancient sediment—the daughter of someone who vanished from the same place twenty-one years earlier—and a living network beneath the orchards beginning to wake.
CREATED AND WRITTEN BY REBEKAH FORTUNE & ROSY DEACON
