My Work
CLOAK
CLOAK is a an 8 x 60 minute returning mystery drama series, which explores the heartache of a small community when the sole survivor of a school bus crash takes her own life years later.
CURRENTLY UNDER OPTION with Simon Mirren and Jamie Carmichael at ATLANTIC NOMAD (LOS ANGELES). Film Victoria Development on Demand script funding 2018. Film Victoria funded writers' room with Versailles creator Simon Mirren 2017.
The Ocean at the Bottom of the Stairs
A thriller feature film currently in development.
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CURRENTLY UNDER OPTION with HOODLUM ENTERTAINMENT.
SCRIPTAPALOOZA Semifinalist in TV Pilot competition (Los Angeles).
An 8 part returning sci-fi mystery series about a man who, after the death of his wife, is forced to face the idea that life can only be understood backwards.
The Others
A six part dramedy series CURRENTLY UNDER OPTION with PRINCESS PICTURES.
Rumble Skate
CURRENTLY UNDER OPTION with HOODLUM ENTERTAINMENT.
A 14 x 10 minute returning Premium Short Form Drama series. State champion figure skater, AIMI SATO (20) is heading for the Olympics when a car accident almost puts an end to her career.
Women Who Play With Dolls
Selected for AWG PATHWAYS SHOWCASE. LINK
A 6 x 60 minute returning grounded Sci-Fi series about JADE LONDON, a disturbed young woman obsessed with VR and on the verge of losing her life to an online hacker.
TV BIBLE available on request.
Imaginary Friend
IMAGINARY FRIEND SCREENED on the ABC in Australia over three years. This is a short film about a woman living in suburban Melbourne and struggling with the collapse of her own mind.
Tropfest Film Festival, finalist “Best of the Rest”, Realm of the Senses Film Festival, “Best of the Rest”, The Eli Lilly Hope Awards Runner Up Prize, Brisbane Film Fantastic Festival Screenplay Certificate of Excellence, Women in Film and Television Film Festival selected film, Homebrewed Film Festival selected film.
BIO
After graduating film school, Chelsea sold her first short film IMAGINARY FRIEND to ABC (Australia), which aired over a three-year period. She has written for shows such as HOME & AWAY, NEIGHBOURS, THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES (where she received 4 ½ stars from the Herald Sun for one of her episodes) and SECRET BRIDESMAIDS' BUSINESS. Her most recent script editing credit was on Studio Bento’s VR project ‘Remembrance’, which has since been selected for the Kaleidoscope Showcase at Cannes XR.
Chelsea has story produced for Stan, Monster & Bear and Seven Studios. Her original pilot script YESTERDAY was a semi-finalist in Scriptapalooza TV Pilot Competition (US) while other scripts have been shortlisted at Tropfest Film Festival, The Hope Awards, Homebrewed Film Festival and Realm of the Senses.
Chelsea's original television concepts are all in active development with Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning company Hoodlum, Princess Pictures and Atlantic Nomad Productions (Los Angeles). In 2020 she was invited to join the Imagine Impact community - a global content accelerator program launched by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
Chelsea has worked in Film and TV production, as a lecturer for RMIT’s Advanced Diploma in Screenwriting, as in house Development Script Producer at SEVEN STUDIOS in Melbourne and as a script reader for the SCRIPTWRITERS' NETWORK in Los Angeles. Chelsea is a graduate of the Writers’ Homicide School in Las Vegas where she honed her skills as a mystery writer.
CONTACT
Chelsea is represented by Yellow Creative Management
Email: jean@theyellowagency.com