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EXCLUSIVE: A improvement programme has launched to thief abnormal UK creatives break into nan scary genre featuring nan creators of Reunion and We Might Regret This.
104 Films has opened a D-Horror programme backed by nan BFI Creative Challenge Fund, which will guideline 10 projects from book to “market-ready transportation materials” complete nan adjacent 4 months.
104 Films is simply a UK accumulation institution focused connected training abnormal creatives. It said nan improvement programme is astir helping those who person “largely been absent from shaping 1 of nan astir globally bankable genres” to person a voice.
“Disability has been utilized arsenic nan metaphor, nan monster, nan threat aliases nan twist successful countless scary films — almost ever authored by non-disabled creatives,” it added. “D-Horror straight challenges that imbalance by supporting abnormal filmmakers to reclaim nan genre.”
Justin Edgar, who runs 104 Films, said: “Horror has ever been a genre for outsiders — a spot wherever nan margins go nan centre. D-Horror gives abnormal filmmakers nan space, support and manufacture entree they’ve been denied for excessively long, and I can’t hold to spot nan stories they bring to life.”
Successful participants see William Mager, whose critically-rated BBC play Reunion followed a deaf man fighting for redemption, and Kyla Harris, who was down and starred successful BBC dramedy We Might Regret This. Full database below.
The participants
Saida Ahmed — Black South-Asian abnormal actor, writer and writer, Stage Debut Award nominee, pinch surface credits including Jerk (BBC), Brassic (Sky) and Film4’s Mo <3 Kyra.
Rebekah Fortune, Rosy Deacon & Jack Tarling — The squad down Lex Maleficarum, led by openly autistic filmmaker Rebekah Fortune (Just Charlie, winner of Cannes Ecrans Juniors), Emmy‑winning writer Rosy Deacon, and BAFTA/BIFA‑winning shaper Jack Tarling (Kneecap, God’s Own Country).
Aruhan Galieva, Jess Gardner & Benjamin Adnams — Writer-performer Aruhan Galieva, abnormal shaper Jess Gardner (Doctor Who, GALWAD), and NFTS head Benjamin Adnams create Limerance, pursuing aggregate award-winning collaborations and nan First Flights Film Fund Award.
Ella Glendining & Kyla Harris — BAFTA-nominated writer-director Ella Glendining (Is There Anybody Out There?) joins forces pinch BAFTA-nominated creator and Emmy-winning shaper Kyla Harris (Patrice: The Movie, We Might Regret This).
Annie Jenkins & Aduke King — Writer-director Annie Jenkins (BFI London Script Lab, HollyShorts, Theatre503) and shaper Aduke King (BFI London Film Festival programmer) create Ripe, a psychological assemblage scary exploring masculinity and inheritance.
William Mager — Writer, Creator and EP of world award-winning thriller Reunion (Warp Films/BBC), which premiered astatine TIFF. Selected arsenic a Broadcast Hot Shot successful 2025.
Toby Parker Rees & Anna Keeley — Writer Toby Parker Rees (Wet Look, Channel 4), a Broadcast Awards nominee, partners pinch Anna Keeley of Escape Plan Productions (Saint Maud, Out of Darkness) connected internationally focused genre work.
Lettie Precious — Writer of psychologically driven genre stories, presently processing The Man Inside, a psychological scary characteristic pinch shaper Rob Watson of Air Street Films.
Kate Shenton — Award‑winning screenwriter and games writer, nominated arsenic Screen International’s Rising Horror Star, pinch credits including Egomaniac and Netflix & Kill, and presently doing AAA activity connected nan adjacent instalment of nan Dead Island saga.
Isabelle Stead — BIFA-winning shaper and Sundance alumna whose films person premiered astatine Toronto and Berlinale, including Son of Babylon and The Journey, some submitted to nan Academy Awards.
