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Simon O'Corra

Internationally Awarded Screenwriter, Playwright & Filmmaker

20+ International Screenplay Awards · 40+ Festival Honours, Finalist Placements and Official Selections

Profile

Winner of multiple international screenplay awards, with numerous finalist, semi-finalist, nominee, and official selection honours at screenplay competitions and film festivals worldwide. Simon O'Corra is a screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker, novelist, editor, and visual artist whose creative career spans more than four decades.

His work includes feature and short screenplays, stage plays, novels, children's books, non-fiction publications, and visual arts projects. His writing explores themes of history, identity, social justice, memory, and human resilience. With award-winning screenplays, produced films, published books, and written theatrical works, he has established a diverse and internationally recognised creative portfolio.

Selected Screenplay Awards

Ward Six

  • Award Winner – Best International Film Festival (2024)
  • Award Winner – Cine Vista Oasis Film Awards (2024)
  • Award Winner – Bright International Film Festival (2022)
  • Award Winner – Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills (2021)
  • Award Winner – Monza Film Fest (2022)
  • Award Winner – 7th Literature in Cinema (2022)

Resist

  • Award Winner – Rome International Movie Awards (2022)
  • Award Winner – Amsterdam International Film Festival (2021)
  • Award Winner – Stockholm Short Festival (2023)

Memento Mori

  • Award Winner – Beyond the Curve International Film Festival (2021)
  • Award Winner – Swedish International Film Festival (2021)
  • Award Winner – LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival (2021)
  • Award Winner – Louisiana Rainbow LGBT+ Film Festival (2021)
  • Award Winner – Pinnacle Film Awards (2021)
  • Award Winner – Reale Film Festival Monthly Awards (2021)

Additional Award-Winning Screenplays

  • Juana and Felipe – Madrid Arthouse Film Festival (2022)
  • Jack – Delta International Film Festival (2022)
  • Dance Mad – Sacramento World Film Festival (2022)
  • Urbex Battleground Part One: The Reckoning – Delta International Film Festival (2022)
  • Gorging on Revenge – Ottawa Film Award (2024)

Produced Films

  • May I Call You Agnes? (2024)
  • Memories (2024)
  • Why Are You Smiling? (2023)
  • A Fool's Errand (2023)
  • No Goodbyes (2021)

Current Projects

  • Ward Six (Feature) – Post-Production
  • Gorging on Revenge (Feature) – Development
  • The Devil Comes Twice (Short) – Development
  • The Bridge (Feature) – Development

Selected Plays

  • Arondeus
  • Resist
  • Taking the Medicine
  • Genesis
  • Hold the Line
  • Juana and Felipe — Liverpool's Bounty
  • Memento Mori
  • Regrets

Selected Publications

  • Coming To
  • Half-Light
  • France in Ruins
  • Life Goes On
  • Words for Actors
  • Sunshine and Rain
  • The Sea Urchin and the Shark
  • Bandar

Additional Experience

  • Editor, Sachet Mixte Press Arts Journals and Monographs
  • Set and Costume Designer for 25+ theatre and opera productions
  • Creator of the Lockdown Monologues and Freedom Monologues projects (400 monologues)
  • Visual Artist and Community Arts Practitioner

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