ABOUT

Lucy Campbell is a UK writer/director. Her award winning short films, funded by BFI, Film4, Film London, Creative England, Fox Digital have been programmed in multiple UK and international festivals. She directed children’s horror CREEPED OUT for CBBC/Canadian DHX broadcast May 2019., BAFTA Winner Best Children’s Drama Series 2019.

After studying literature and creative writing, Lucy trained as a medical doctor, working for fifteen years as a GP in the deprived inner city district of Gorton, Manchester, alongside volunteering with the charity: Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, providing care to asylum seekers who had been tortured in their countries of origin, preparing medico-legal reports in support of their asylum claims..

She is drawn to female led horror as a paradoxically safe space to interrogate the politics and psychology of the female body and female experience, and to tell stories of risk-taking women.


Alumni of EIFF feature writing programme NetWork, 2013, EIFF Talent Lab 2016, BFI London Film Festival Talent Lab 2016, 2017. Adapt to Film 2017. School of Sound 2011, 2019. Torino Film Lab Extended (scriptwriting) June 2019.

Sci fi feature PIG CHILD is a contemporary Frankenstein about a doctor who creates a pig-human donor to provide organs for a sick child. Currently in advanced development with BFI/Delaval Film, writer Dawn King.

BREAST - a bad girl fast car genre bending horror about female freedom in a demonic car, developed on Torino Film Lab 2019-20 and shortlisted for Sundance Writers’ Lab 2020.

Feature LITTLE SKINNY a drama about a misunderstanding is in its early re-writing stage.

Feature drama MONKEYBOY was shortlisted for the SUNDANCE WRITERS' LAB 2018. Developed on ADAPT TO FILM (Creative Skillset/Nottingham Broadway) with Anna Siefert Speck and Caroline Cooper Charles.

With funding and support from BFI/Creative England/Film London/Film4/British Council and Fox Digital Studios she has written and directed award winning short films: 

THE PIG CHILD (2014) - Winner Best Actress, Best Newcomer Cinematography,  MARINA & ADRIENNE (2016) - Winner best screenplay Shakespeare's Sister competition, and subsequently commissioned by Film London and British Council. Nominated for Best Director at London Short Film Festival, Winner Best Producer at Underwire). SLIDING (2017) - Underwire Festival (shortlisted, best production design)

Short horrror SQUEAL was commissioned by Film4 for their Halloween season 2016, broadcast on F4 Channel and can be watched on All4 website. Nominated for a Broadcast Digital Award 2017, Official Selection London Short Film Festival, Winner Best Director Women in Horror Film Festival.

Short horror LIPPY was commissioned by Fox Digital Studios/20th Century Fox and co-funded and produced for the Hulu channel for Halloween 2018, played at multiple international festivals and is on Hulu online.

Short family drama FOR HEIDI WITH BLUE HAIR adapted from the poem by Fleur Adcock won the Directors UK ARRI Challenge 2020, produced by Barrington Paul Robinson and Radha Bhandari, Official Selection London Film Festival 2022.

Lucy Campbell is represented by Ikenna Obiekwe at Independent Talent.