The Brit List, the platform for emerging British screenwriting talent, has unveiled its 2025 lineup of the best unproduced film and TV scripts.

Established in 2007, The Brit Lists mission is to showcases outstanding British voices, with its annual list compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors, and broadcasters. As such, the feature and television scripts that have made it onto this years list offer a barometer of industry tastes and trends, the Brit List team highlighted. In recent years, The Brit List has represented a near parity of male and female writers, and in this edition, half of the writers come from historically underrepresented voices. This year, a minimum of seven recommendations was needed for inclusion, with 15 scripts from 16 writers making the 2025 cut.

Topping the list is DontEven Go There by RobertCawsey, whose synopsis reads: A family hiking trip in Wales, intended to bring Will and his estranged parents closer, goes horribly wrong when an ancient monster is unleashed, seeking revenge on the locals.

The second-ranked script comes from Blake Ritson, known for portraying Oscar Van Rijn in The Gilded Age, and his brother Dylan. Their P.O.V is set in a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyones outlook on life, according to a plot summary.

The third spot is held by Discretion by Dylan Brady, the actor whoportrayed Neek in the second season of Andor. The story revolves around a struggling actor who is offered a job by a nannying high-flying producer and her movie star husband.

In this years list, we have a strong collection of unique voices that take us into fresh, bold worlds, said Brit List founder and director Alexandra Arlango. Interestingly, this year there is a high number of scripts in the sci-fi and horror genre, but these are balanced with a higher number of scripts that lean into comedy. One striking difference we have seen across the scripts that made it onto The Brit List 2025 and indeed the majority of the 200 script recommendations we had this year, is how many of them have yet to attach a production company. This is surely a reflection of the challenging times the film and TV industries are currently facing and makes it more important than ever that we, as an industry, continue to take risks and have the conviction to back brilliant storytelling.

Nearly one in four of the feature scripts that have appeared on The Brit List have gone on to be produced, including The Kings Speech, Paddington, and The Favourite, according to the Brit List team.

The writers on the Brit List 2025, supported by AudibleandtheFilm Distributors Association, will have the opportunity to attend asix-monthprogramdesigned to help them in their careers via weekly seminars featuring industry guest speakers, including buyers, producers, and showrunners,as well as a roster of specialists in such fields as personal finance, mental health, pitching techniques, and personal branding.

Here is a look at the scripts on The Brit List 2025.

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DontEven Go There by RobertCawsey(Curtis Brown)

Producers: Available

Form: Feature FilmGenre: Comedy Horror

Summary: A family hiking trip in Wales, intended to bring Will and his estranged parents closer, goes horribly wrong when an ancient monster is unleashed, seeking revenge on the locals.

20 RECOMMENDATIONS

P.O.V by Dylan Ritson Blake Ritson(Curtis Brown)

Producers: Available

Form: FeatureFilmGenre: Elevated Sci Fi

Summary: In a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyones outlook on life, a faulty prescription opens Lyles eyes to a reality hecantunsee.

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Discretion by Dylan Brady(Knight Hall)

Producers: Kudos

Form: TVGenre: Erotic Thriller

Summary: When struggling actor Jacob is offered a nannying job by a high-flying producer and her movie star husband, he plots to seduce his employers and gain advantage from their industry connections notrealizingheswalking into a trap.

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Revolting by Jack Holden(Independent Talent Group)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Drama

Summary:Revolting is the fabulously explosive story of the British gay liberation movement from 1970 to 1990, inspired by the experiences ofreal-lifeactivist Lisa Power.

Always Greener by Lewis Wren(Curtis Brown)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: High Concept Rom Com

Summary: A struggling artist, haunted by past failure, is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe, only to discover that living his fantasy has cost him the love of his life.

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Chasing the Night by Abraham Adeyemi(Casarotto)

Producers: Available

Form: FeatureFilmGenre: Romance

Summary: Former lovers Fatimah and Leonmeetserendipitously in Athens on the last night of their respective trips. The hurdles they could not overcome in their home city suddenlyfade. Can this new landscape give them a fresh start? They have one night to find out.

The Widow Making Syndicate by Bethan Moore(The Agency)

Producers: Available

Form: FeatureFilmGenre: Crime / Black Comedy Drama

Summary: In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic. 133 men are murdered, and the clubs ringleader, the young, beautiful and bat-shit Zsofi Kovacs, is put on trial, facing the death penalty. But has sheactually doneanything wrong? Based on a true crime story.

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Winging It by Wisdom Charis(Curtis Brown)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Comedy Drama

Summary: A comedy about newly orphaned Steady, following her as she navigates grief, adult life and the Herculean task that is taking over her dads white van man company (something hard to do whenshesnot even one of those three things) accompanied by her clueless but loveable friends.

Maternalby Adam Tindall(Unrepresented)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Offbeat Action Thriller

Summary: An unassuming middle-aged woman and her teenage son are forced to flee their humdrum lives, when the mothers past as a master assassin finally catches up with her.

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Children of the State by Sarah Louise Madden(Casarotto)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Dystopian Thriller

Summary: Children of the State is set in a near-future worldwhere,to save a crumbling welfare system, family size is now based upon citizens wages all children who cannot be afforded are taken and raised by the state. Lowri Morgan, a working-class doctor, begins to question her complicity in this utopic world.

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Sweatshop Boy by ArranShargall(Unrepresented)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Workplace Drama

Summary: A fast-fashion assistant discovers a secret so explosive it could destroy the very industryhesdesperately trying to conquer, forcing him to choose between self-destructing his own career to expose the truth or silencing it forever to protect his rise to power.

For SuchATimeasThis by StephanieYamson(Casarotto)

Producers: Five Acts Productions

Form: TVGenre: Drama

Summary:Four lifelong friends navigate love, ambition,healthand sisterhood in modern-day London. Their worlds intertwine through laughter, secrets, and heartbreak until tragedy strikes, forcing them to question what it truly means to show up for each other.

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Darling of the Right, Enemy of My People by Mahad Ali(The Agency)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Political Thriller

Summary: A charismatic secondary school headteacher is unexpectedly nominated as the Conservative candidate for Londons Mayor. In turn, her deeply held values clash with both her past and the complex realities of her diverse community forcing her to confront uncomfortable truths about loyalty, identity, andpower.

ImF*ckingAmazing by Anoushka Warden(Independent Talent Group)

Producers: Fifth Season in association with Bond Group Entertainment

Form: TVGenre: Comedy Drama

Summary:Unacantget wet. She must be broken. Newly engaged, she sets off on a desperate quest to fix her bits What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman whocantstand sex with the best guy ever?ImF*ckingAmazing is a hilarious dive into female sexual desire.

Sovereign By Chloe Mai White(Independent Talent Group)

Producers: Available

Form: TVGenre: Political financial thriller

Summary: When the UKcantafford to pay its national debt, a government lawyer whose marriage is imploding, is thrust into the spotlight as she fights to save the nation from economic catastrophe.