Rosalind De Aragues

• Development consultant on shorts, TV and Film scripts and novels. Organising in person and online development intensives for writers
• Curating writing retreats and running creative courses

• Coordinating marketing strategy for script lab submissions.
• Development producing; successfully raising finance for the 2023 and 2024 Writer's Labs.
• Connecting with new executive partners.

• Development consultant to screenwriters, working through a minimum of three stages of development and rewrites on their short films.

• Built new business and implemented strategies for growth for online scripted development platform FMH in the UK and US.
• Created new industry partnerships and expanded the development executive database.
• Established two annual Film and TV screenwriting contests and the UK and US Online 'Pitchbox' event, as well as other opportunities for emerging screenwriters.
• Responsible for creating online content, interviewing industry experts on all things screenwriting and story, marketing and copywriting.

• As an assistant script editor for the Medusa Writer's Room (thriller series for Netflix), my role was to make notes throughout the day and summarise the notes in the evening, delivering to tight deadlines.
• Writing episode beats and breakdowns and collating series beats for the writers and producers.

Under the Universal banner, I worked in development for Carnival Films, Working Title Television and Universal International Studios Scripted as a development assistant and executive producer assistant.

• Script reading and reports, book coverage, development research, writers/directors/talent research.
• Diary management and executive assistant duties.

• Extensive research across a range of original script projects in development.
• Conducting and documenting interviews, presenting research, script reading.

• Development research; script-reading, writing script reports, script-editing.
• Raising finance through EIS (gaining an Associate Producer credit).
• Assisting producers with all aspects of production and finance.
• Editing of film offer documents, synopses, and investor newsletters.
• Organising various screenings for distributors, investors, cast and crew.
• Company Ambassador; attending industry events/film markets on behalf of the company.

• Script Researcher; providing very detailed research on delicate material in the scripts.
• General Admin for the writer's room of No Offence.

Working with producer/director Sonita Gale:

• Development researcher on scripted feature projects and a feature documentary; researching for two of these projects in Mumbai.
• Documenting and filming interviews and meeting directors and writers.
• Writing treatments and pitch documents.

• Edit Assistant and Media Manager on projects such as; Life, Nature's Great Events, Frozen Planet, The Great Rift, Yellowstone, South Pacific, and Ray Mears.
• Editing promos for NHU.
  

Producer, Director and Editor on various short films and a documentary for a Ugandan based charity working with orphaned children and formally abducted children of war. I was invited back to direct another film in 2012.

Edit Assistant, Post production runner and production runner @BBC Bristol, Tigress Productions, Bristol, Films@59, Bristol, Icon Productions, Bristol. During this season I was a freelance director/editor for corporate and charity films.