Alannah Olivia (1990) – Age in movies

Biography

Alannah is a writer/director from Cyprus and Egypt with a particularnninterest in creating diverse stories for the unrepresented. Alannah grew upnnin North London, where all the Cypriot’s live surrounded by kebab juicennand Churches. After being kicked out of school, Alannah began performingnnas an outlet for a lot of energy!

Alannah created a teaser for an original TV show called OLIVES, which wasnnthen taken into development with BBC Drama. She is also writing twonnepisodes of an original horror TV series for Channel 4 Drama with ThennForge. Alannah has an original, action/adventure drama series SAVAGE innndevelopment with BBC Drama and Eleven Films.

Alannah is currently writing an episode of SWEETPEA for Sky, and wasnnrecently in the writers room for Season Two of Boarders for the BBC.

Alannah was also in the writers room for Delicious (Sky) and Flack starringnnAnna Paquin.

Alannah’s short film that she wrote and directed; Taarof ‘a verbal dance’ isnnnow available on the BFI website for a year as part of a season of filmsnncurated by Tape Collective called ‘But where are you really from?’nnexploring mixed heritage identity. The film will also be showing at the BFInnSouthbank this summer.

Alannah’s debut feature film I DON’T EAT MEAT! which was developednnthrough Creative England Ifeatures scheme, is now in development withnnthe BFI and Film 4.