Biography
Rachel Tunnard is a writer, director and editor. Her first feature, Adult Life Skills was nominated for six BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards) and won two. It also won the ‘Nora Ephron Prize’ at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ from the Writers Guild, the ‘Accession Award’ for Screenwriting at the East End Film Festival and was nominated for ‘Best Debut Feature Film’ by the London Critics Circle.
Complete Filmography
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
Screenplay
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
Military Wives
2020
Writer
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected...
Adult Life Skills
2016
Writer, Editor, Director
Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time work...
Emotional Fusebox
2014
Director, Writer, Editor
Anna lives a hermit's life in her Mum's garden shed, making videos starring her thumbs. She wants to stay there but her Mum has other plans.
Shell
2012
Editor
Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolat...
The Rule of Thumb
2012
Editor
Forty-something mummy’s boy Neil Barrow attempts to make his mum proud. Living out his fantasy the attempt leads to a disastrous stand-off at his loca...
Fixing Luka
2011
Editor
Lucy thinks her brother, Luka, is broken. His obsessive, infuriating arrangements of sugar cubes and thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed...
The Send Off
2011
Editor
A chance reunion with a woman from his past takes one man on a heartbreaking journey across time.
Skeletons
2010
Editor
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their se...
I'll Be Right Here
2010
Editor
Holed up in an LA hotel room, John Moffat has fanciful, deluded dreams about meeting his idol Steven Spielberg. When Moffat befriends an ageing hotel ...
Native Son
2010
Editor
John, lives in a remote area of Scotland. The primary industry is potato farming and John is a picker who lives for the harvests; it is all he has in ...
PS Your Mystery Sender
2010
Editor
A look at the array of mysterious, quirky objects received by fashion designer Paul Smith and the effect they have had on his life.
Little Ashes
2008
Editor
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Kill Kill Faster Faster
2008
Editor
Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in...
A Woman in Winter
2007
Editor
An astronomer enters into a destructive affair with a photographer.