Sophie Neville worked on movies as a girl, becoming inadvertently well known for playing ‘Titty’ in ‘Swallows and Amazons’ (1974) streaming on Amazon Prime. Her paperback on the disasters they overcame whilst filming is now on audible.
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Sophie is currently working on three historical novels set in East Africa. Her WWII screenplay won Best True Story at the 2024 Page Tuner Awards and reached the finals of their 2025 awards – in three categories: writing, screenplay and culture.
Another recently won a Top Three Scripts award at the New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles. She had two scripts in the finals of Screencraft’s True Story screenplay competition, 2025.
The book that accompanies it has won five writing contests, including the 2025 Page Turner Award for Best True Story.
Last year, Sophie won Best Screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival and Best Feature Script in Prague, London and Paris.
Her WWII screenplay THE MEETING HOUSE is on the top 1% of Coverfly’s Red List having 7 finalist awards in the USA.
She won a total of 27 writing awards in 2024 and was nominated for a few more.
Morgana Film Festival wrote saying, ‘Your talent left us speechless and we hope to see more projects from you in the future.’
Currently nominated for Best Screenplay (not filmed) by the Los Angeles Television, Script and Film Festival
Celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ were profiled on BBC Breakfast TV, BBC News, NW News, Daily Mail, Daily Express, and all the yachting magazines. The story swamped the media while Sophie was amused to find herself hailed as an icon by OK! magazine.
Back in 2014, Sophie became president of The Arthur Ransome Society and began giving talks at yacht clubs, cinemas and literary festivals. After her ebook on ‘The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons’ became an Amazon bestseller, she was commissioned to write ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’, which The Lutterworth Press has now launched as an audiobook.
Sophie’s illustrated memoirs: Ride the Wings of Morning, and Funnily Enough are also available online.
She was commissioned by Revelation Films to write DVD Extras for ‘Coot Club’ and ‘The Big Six’, along with forewords for ‘Swallowdale’ by Arthur Ransome, ‘Swallows, Amazons and Coots’, ‘An A-Z of Cumbria and The Lake District on Film’, ‘Boats Yet Sailing’, and ‘From Dust to Trust’.
Since then, Sophie has contributed chapters to books such as Write Well and Merry Christmas Everyone, while writing feature articles for magazines and newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph.
Sophie has been speaking on BBC Radio and ITV News. StudioCanal asked her to appear in the DVD Extras of their Vintage Classic version of ‘Swallows and Amazons'(1974).
After starring in another adventure movie, and appearing in Crossroads and the Two Ronnies whilst at Durham University, Sophie went into television production. She spent five years assisting on BBC drama serials such as ‘Doctor Who’ before making her first documentary for Channel 4 in Kenya, and ended up working behind the camera on more than 110 different programmes. She has just been speaking at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith about her work behind the camera on Doctor Who.
Having directed comedy dramas for BBC Education, she produced an Inset series, set up a Blue Peter exploration of South Africa and wildlife films in Botswana and Namibia.
Since returning to the UK, Sophie has appeared as herself in about twelve different television programmes. Her achieve footage has been included in many more.
The Lutterworth Press bring you an interview with Sophie Neville and screenwriter David Wood here
You can watch a recent item on BBC Breakfast TV here:
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