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FILM CREDITS TO DATE
THE STRANGER IN OUR BED
In August 2020 Samantha sold the film rights in her novel, The Stranger in Our Bed, to Terri Dwyer at Buffalo Dragon. Production was completed over 2020 and 2021 and the film was released in 2022.
On 3 July 2023, the film won Best Thriller at the prestigious National Film Awards!
Director: Giles Alderson
Producers: Terri Dwyer and Dean Fisher
Screenwriter: Samantha Lee Howe
Executive Producers: Greg Barrow, Samantha Lee Howe
Cast: Samantha Bond, Emily Berrington, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Joseph Marcell, Nina Wadia, Andi Osho, Terri Dwyer, Bart Edwards and Paul Casar.
‘Well the thing that attracts any actor is the quality of the writing and it was lovely in the middle of the pandemic to receive a really well crafted script. It’s a very good story; it has wonderful twists and turns … you really don’t know where it’s going!’ Actress Samantha Bond, speaking about the script for THE STRANGER IN OUR BED
‘So I read the script pretty quickly when my agent sent it over and I just thought I really like a psychological thriller anyway and I just thought this is a really good example of a psychological thriller where you feel for the characters; the setting is amazing; it’s creepy but it’s also human. I just thought there were lots of kind of good balances in it and Also some sort of quite cool stuff as well as an actor that you get to do and try out.’ Actress Emily Berrington
‘I thought Samantha Lee Howe had done a fantastic job and I really enjoyed the characters and the development that she put in there and the time and the effort to create these characters. The novel came out in February and here we are in December making the movie! I still thought that she had really got into those characters and really loved them and I sort of fell in love with the idea of this project and I wanted to make it.’ Giles Alderson, Director, THE STRANGER IN OUR BED
‘[A] sleek and surreptitious film’ The Golden News (https://thegoldennews.ca/an-adulterous-mystery-thriller-broadcasts-dirty-secrets-in-the-streaming-top-10/)
THE WHITE WITCH OF DEVIL’S END
In 2018 Koch Media released the Reeltime Pictures DVD boxset, The Daemons of D
evil’s End which contained the six part Doctor Who spin-off drama, The White Witch of Devil’s End. The drama was released again on its own in 2020 and went on to win several festival awards including FIRST PRIZE in the prestigious MONOLOGUE AND POETRY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.
The drama was written by Samantha Lee Howe (As Sam Stone) with writers David J Howe, Debbie Bennett, Raven Dane, Jan Edwards and Suzanne Barbieri. Samantha devised the overall story arc and was script editor on the project.
Directed by Keith and Anastasia Barnfather
With an outstanding performance by veteran actress, Damaris Hayman.
