Monica Nencini

Originally beginning my creative career as an artist, I found myself incorporating more and more writing into my work. This led to an exploration of performance art before later choosing to study screenwriting after realising storytelling has been the core of my practice. Throughout my interests have lay in British social realism and comedy/drama; writing that explores my own upbringing and culture. Studying this became my focus during my Masters with my dissertation exploring ‘truth telling’ in film and television and British soap’s role in this. My work has been featured in publications by: Lonely Boy Zines, Tangle Magazine and P.A.S.T.E. Performances at: Hundred Years Gallery, Matchstick Piehouse and the Flying Dutchman. I’m lucky to have achieved these things through collaboration with creative groups as well as through my own agency. Whilst studying I began working at Curzon cinemas where the everyday opportunity to discuss and debate filmmaking with everyday film lovers only encouraged my love of writing for and about the screen. As well as taking on additional responsibilities as a manager at Curzon, I’ve seized opportunities to create content, promoting films and the cinema