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Toby Venables is a professional screenwriter, novelist and journalist with 20 years experience in the field and numerous feature and TV commissions under his belt – including the BAFTA-winning movie HIS HOUSE.
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Toby Venables holds and MA in Film Studies from ARU and is active in the film industry as a screenwriter and story consultant. He has written several commissioned film and TV screenplays, and was co-creator and co-writer of the hit Netflix socio-political horror movie His House, which premiered at Sundance 2020 and went on to win four BIFAs and a B...
screenwritinghorror cinemahistorical fictionadaptationToby currently teaches on the following modules: 1. Intro to Screenwriting 2. Script to Screen 3. Screenwriting: The Feature Film 4. Screenwriting: Adaptation 5. Film Reviewing 6. Film Journalism
MA Film Studies, Anglia Ruskin UniversityBA English and Study of Art, Anglia Ruskin UniversityVenables, Toby, 2017. Hood (Hunter of Sherwood 3). Oxford: Abaddon. Venables, Toby, 2015. The Red Hand (Hunter of Sherwood 2). Oxford: Abaddon. Venables, Toby, 2014. 'Zombies, a Lost Literary Heritage and the Return of the Repressed', in: Laura Hubner, Marcus Leaning, Paul Manning (eds) The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture. London: Palgrave Ma...
'Bringing the zombie back home' – paper for NAWE Conference, York, November 2013 'Living the dream: loving the nightmare' – paper for Cambridge University Festival of ideas, 25 October 2012 'Locating the zombie: landscapes of the living dead' – paper for The Zombosium, Winchester University, 28 October 2011 'Frankenstein into film' – one-day worksh...
Occasional contributor to Val Verde BroadcastingYouTube film review channel. Editor and contributor to various publications since 1997, specialising in reviews and interview features. The diverse range of interview subjects has included Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Anne McCaffrey, Des O’Connor, Gunther von Hagens, John Godber, Alison Weir, Ray Harryhausen,...
Toby Venables is a screenwriter, novelist and award-winning journalist who lectures to undergraduates in Cambridge (on writing and film).
Toby Venables is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist and lecturer in film, journalism and creative writing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. For many years he worked as a journalist and magazine editor, launching magazines in Cambridge, Peterborough, Oxford and Bristol.
Toby Venables is a novelist, screenwriter and lecturer in Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He grew up watching old Universal horror movies when his parents thought he was asleep, reading 2000 AD and obsessing about Beowulf.
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Toby Venables What first attracted you to horror writing? I can’t really remember a time when I didn’t write some kind of story, and there was always horror involved – but a key moment was having the Beowulf and Grendel story read out in class at primary school.
Copywriter, scriptwriter and editorial consultant, regularly working in the areas of ad copywriting and PR, but also active as a BFI Associate Tutor and a lecturer on film journalism and...
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