Writer/director Kerri Davenport Burton
In 2018, graduated with Distinction from the NFTS Screenwriting MA (2018).
Her debut feature documentary, 100 Doors, was BIFA and Raindance nominated, premiered the 'Outside Season' for CHANNEL 4 and ARTE, and was then televised worldwide.
Salt From Sun (2025), her feature screenplay, reached the semi-finals, which put her in the top 1.8% of the 6,000 scripts received.
In 2024, she completed her short film, The Long Pigs, set in the gritty underbelly of London. The script received awards at The Cannes Golden Plume, The Golden Script Competition, Los Angeles International Film Festival, Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival:
Her three other short fictional films ::
That Thing You Drew won the Audience Award at Warsaw, the Jury Prize at Kinemastik, earned an Honorary Mention at LA International and the Comedy Award at the London Short Film Festival.
We Won The War, won at Cinequest, LA and the East End Film Festival,
Necromance won at the London Short Film Festival and then screened internationally.
Projects update 2026 ::
The feature screenplaySalt From Sun is moving towards development.Selected to pitch at the 2026 Raindance Festival with Creative HQ, meet the financiers. The script reached the BBC semi-finals, placing her in the top 1.8% of the 6,000 scripts submitted.
Logline :: It's winter 1999, on the dawn of a millennium, in a demoralised seaside town, on the edge of England, Tucker and his gang of Skins attempt to intercept a delivery of refugees; instead, he is kidnapped onto the ship with the traffickers as they escape, transporting them into a brutal yet mysterious purgatory of discovery.
How To Make Monsters :: Feature Documentary has also been selected to pitch at the 2026 Raindance Film Festival and is up for development funding from Catapult.
Logline :: A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the heart at the core of a mother’s destruction, a woman living under a false identity and refusing to ever speak of Ireland, denying her childhood and falsifying her future, like a thriller, each layer unpeels in reverse, revealing the effect before the cause. A love story backwards.
It Happened in the Wilds of Texas reached the finals in the Golden Script short script competition. We are now seeking funding to adapt the feature screenplay.
Logline :: Inspired by a powerful act of rebellion from death row, when David could not defeat Goliath, your body becomes your only form of resistance.
None of my films is an obvious choice; they are mauling yet political, raw yet dreamlike, luckily, audiences love them.
Get in touch if you would like to be involved.
The Fifteenth Fury is a Graphic Novel.
