Mary is a Nairobi-born, London-bred screenwriter and filmmaker. After a career in advertising in London, she began experimenting with short film and turned her hand to screenwriting, completing the Screenwriting certificate at the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS) where she wrote her first feature script EXILES – winner of the FilmarketHub2020 Screenwriting competition and shortlisted for the 2020 BBC Scriptworks & Thousand Films Screenwriting competition. EXILES is now being developed with Mo Abudu’s Ebony Life and Sony under their Alo writing banner. Mary is also developing a London-based sci-fi thriller concept exploring the racialisation of artificial intelligence with Statement Films and Topic and was selected to participate in the Realness institute and Netflix Africa’s inaugural Episodic Lab, developing a Swahili folk horror concept. She recently worked on treatment commissions for StudioCanal UK bringing to life secret untold histories and extraordinary true stories. As a lover of thriller, horror, and sci-fi, Mary’s writing explores the many dimensions of the African Diaspora and Diaspora identities through a socially aware genre lens.
Represented by Aoife Lennon-Ritchie and David Kayser