Writing

Selina Lim

Selina is an award-winning and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter working in comedy, genre and drama. She is interested in bringing unheard voices and perspectives to the screen with a love of dark comedy and heartfelt character-driven stories. Her writing has been described as “funny, witty and poignant”, with an ability to “mine laughs from a very dark situation, whilst maintaining a genuinely touching story at the heart of it all”. Selina is currently lead writer on a series for Sky, and has an original TV show in development with Left Bank. Selina has written for seasons 3 and 4 of Sex Education (Eleven Film/Netflix), with the former winning an International Emmy. She has also written for season 3 of Hanna (NBC Universal/Amazon). She has been executive producer on season 2 of The Midwich Cuckoos, co-developing the series with David Farr (Route 24/Sky). She has written an episode for Season 1 of Sweetpea, Steve Thompson thriller Prime Target (Scott Free Productions/Apple TV, starring Leo Woodall) and Keeley Hawes thriller The Assassin (Two Brothers/Amazon). Selina has previously been in the writers’ rooms for season 2 of The Night Manager (BBC/Ink Factory/AMC) and season 2 of The Day of the Jackal (Carnival/Sky), and written for continuing drama Hollyoaks (Channel 4/Lime Pictures). Her short films include Painkiller (BBC/B3 Media) starring Benedict Wong which was nominated for the LOCO Discovery Award, and Keeping Up with the Joneses (BFI/Lighthouse) with Maxine Peake and Adeel Akhtar and directed by Michael Pearce. This was nominated for a BAFTA and a BIFA for Best British Short Film in 2014, won the Best Thriller Short Award at the London Short Film Festival 2014 and Best Thriller at the Aesthetica Film Festival 2014. Selina has been named on the BBC's New Talent Hotlist, in which "creative leaders from across the BBC have identified over 200 broadcasting stars of the future".