Girl in the Film Ltd
This is our website where you will find all the info on our current and upcoming films. Girl in the Film Ltd was founded by Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling. Our first film, Scooterman, has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival, the LA Comedy Festival and Palm Springs.
Scooterman is an 18 minute romantic comedy, co-written and produced by Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling, directed and produced by Kirsten Cavendish. Set in London, Scooterman stars Ed Stoppard as Gerald aka Scooterman, an aspiring writer stuck on paragraph one on his great novel eking out a living by driving drunks home from parties in their own cars. He falls in love with one of his regular passengers, Daisy, but unfortunately she has an awful boyfriend, Barry...
Shot by Oscar-Winning DoP John V Fante, Scooterman is an eighteen minute film currently seeking investors for the feature length version. David Wicht has just been signed as Executive Producer.
To find out more, watch the video below, see the press release, and visit www.scootermanmovie.com.
Biographies:
Charlotte Eagar - Founder, Writer, Producer
Charlotte Eagar is a British novelist and award winning former foreign correspondent, investigative journalist and travel writer, currently the Senior Editor of the Conde Nast magazine, Tatler. The name of this film company derived from her first novel, The Girl in the Film, set in the siege of Sarajevo, where she was based as Balkans Correspondent of the Observer. Scooterman, which she co-wrote with William Stirling, is her first film. She read Classics at Oxford and, after becoming a foreign correspondent at the age of 26 has since reported from places as diverse as Afghanistan, Baghdad, Korea and Rome. She has worked for The Sunday Telegraph and The Mail on Sunday.
William Stirling - Writer, Producer
William is a writer and journalist living in West London. His comic novella, The Umbrella of Faith, was published in 2007 by Kristiania in Austria, and in England in 2008. He has written several screenplays, including The Mississippians - about the first and greatest stock market boom and crash in history, in 18th century France. Since attending the London Academy of Media Film and TV, he has co-written two romantic comedies. Scooterman is his first film. Born in Glasgow in 1965, he was educated largely in England, but has since been a gold miner (western Australia), a banker, a remittance man (South Africa), an aid worker (Bosnia 1992), a builder, a property developer, a research assistant, a political campaigner and a Scottish Parliamentary candidate.
Simona Mohan - Production Assistant
Born in Moscow with a London life, Simona is a recent Fashion Promotions graduate from the University for the Creative Arts at Rochester. After many internships in the basements of Fashion PR companies, and magazines (Harpers Bazaar NY, Exposure, Snow PR) she found an inner enthusiasm for film producing and design and has joined Girl in the Film.
Francesca Lamarque - Executive Assistant
Francesca is taking a year out of Oxford, where she studies Philosophy and Theology, to work for Girl in the Film Ltd. After finishing her degree, she will go to the Gallatin School at New York University to study Film and Television Production. She lives between London and New York, and has worked as an assistant to everything from a Senator to a lingerie firm, but film is her major interest, and she hopes later to specialise in producing films for children.
Upcoming Projects:
Girl in the Film Ltd has several more films in development. For information and any other enquiries please email us at info@girlinthefilm.com.