Author Archives: Geoff Holder

About Geoff Holder

Commissioned and Experienced Screenwriter, offering Specs and Work-for-Hire. • Specialties: supernatural, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action thrillers. • I like to turn traditional monsters (vampires, dragons, demons and their ilk) into the good guys. Or at least, the not-quite-so-bad guys. • Alumnus of the ScreenwritingU Pro Series. • Hugely experienced Author. • 36 non-fiction books published, covering the paranormal, the mysterious, the murderous, and some very weird and bloody history.

In which the Writer gets a showreel

My first showreel of completed, in-development and available projects has been hatched. Check it out here.

If you’d like to know more about the available screenplays are here, or there’s one of those contact forms here.

 

Many thanks to Magnus Wake of Encaptivate! for the edit.

Further thanks to the copyright holders for permission to use their material.

Sitges Fantastic Film Festival

I’ll be attending the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain from 4th to 8th October, meeting with producers looking for genre screenwriters (horror, sci-fi, action, thriller). If you’re going, drop me a line and let’s see if we can link up. 

In which the Writer has 6 VR films released

IMMERSIVE COMBAT is out now on all popular VR platforms. A series of six short action/sci-fi Virtual Reality films produced by Spherica VR. I wrote Season One.“Welcome to Immersive Combat – where Vikings, pirates, knights and cyberpunks fight in a strange and mysterious cinematic VR universe. What links all these warriors from different periods and places? Follow the stories and characters of the award-winning series to find out. 

Immersive Combat is a truly unique VR experience, where cinematic VR is the key component.

Everything here is made to deliver the most amazing experience, to teleport you to new realms and fantasy worlds, to kickstart your imagination by putting you into the virtual world that was not CG created but produced with full cinematic power and grandeur to the maximum extent of realism, and with such passion to detail that will make you feel and believe every step of this epic journey as if you are physically there.”

In which the Writer is hired to write a sci-fi TV pilot

Sci-fi. I love it. Many of my favourite screen moments are full-on science fiction. Aliens. Predator. Terminator. Dr Who.

I’ve just been hired by to write a pilot for the TV series SENTIENT. Think Invasion of the Body-Snatchers meets The Walking Dead. 

I think it’s going to be rather good.

Sentient is a multi-franchised operation run by Presence Global Entertainment in Australia, with variants in development in the USA, Germany, Australia, Russia and Africa. I’m writing the UK version. It will be set in the beautiful Lake District, in Cumbria. Expect scenery. (And aliens.)

Watch this space.

Sentient on Facebook Website Vimeo  Twitter

In which the Writer is in the ISA Fellowship Top 50

I’m one of the Top 50 #screenwriters in the 2018 ISA (International Screenwriters Association) Fast Track Fellowship.  My submitted screenplays were PLUGGED (horror-comedy) and KILLER SKILLSET (action/thriller).

Full list of winners here: https://www.networkisa.org/contest/view/fasttrack/ @networkisa

Congratulations to all those who made the cut.

Announcement of the winners in a month’s time (end of April).