Andrea Gibb

Andrea Gibb is an award-winning Scottish screenwriter, working in film and television. She was nominated for the Bafta Carl Foreman award for her debut feature film, ‘Afterlife’ and for a Bafta television award for ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’ in 2020. She adapted this best-selling novel by Emma Healey into a single television film for STV and BBC, starring Glenda Jackson and directed by Aisling Walsh. This film won multiple awards including an RTS Scotland writing award and the short form drama award from the Writers Guild.

Her feature-length screenplays for ‘Dear Frankie’ and ‘Afterlife’ won Andrea the Scottish Screen Filmmaker of the Year award and the Women In Film and Television script award in 2005. Her adaptation of the classic children’s novel ‘Swallows and Amazons’ (BBC Films) was released in cinemas in 2016 and won the Grand Jury prize at the New York Children’s Film Festival and the family film award at the Seattle Film Festival. Her adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s best-selling novel ‘Mayflies’ was produced by Synchronicity Films in Glasgow and garnered a slew of 4 and 5-star reviews on transmission in December ’22. It won the Bafta Scotland award for best-scripted television drama and has been nominated for a Broadcast award.

Andrea is currently working on a raft of film and television commissions including adaptations of Sarah Winman’s ‘Tin Man’ and Kirsten Innes’s ‘Fishnet’. Her 4 part adaptation of Gill Hornby’s novel ‘Miss Austen’ for Masterpiece / PBS is currently in post-production and stars Keeley Hawes. Her adaption of Stef Penney’s ‘The Tenderness of Wolves’ is Being developed by Feel Films with, and for, Kelly MacDonald.

Andrea lives and works in Glasgow.