Juliet McKoen

Juliet McKoen trained as a film editor after graduating from university. She worked for Channel 4, BBC2 and the Arts Council of England; she has also made her own experimental short films, awarded at various international festivals. She then studied scriptwriting; her prize for winning the Script Factory/DNA First Draft Competition was a place in the Carlton TV Drama Screenwriting Course. Her first screenplay, for Mermaids and Money Troubles, has recently been commissioned a children's book. In 1997 she formed her own company, Shoreline Films, which is today a recognised production centre. In 2000 she made the short feature Mavis and the Mermaid, which took the Kodak/BAFTA Award and the Golde Special Jury Award at Houston's WorldFest. Another film, Blood Sisters, won the Gold Prize at Houston. Frozen (2004) is her feature debut.

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