Fiona Brohamer
- Music Department
Although born in London to a family of creative, world travelers, Fiona grew up between the UK and Los Angeles. Having worked part-time since she was 13, Fiona left school at 16, and by 17, was managing a department at a London-based woman's magazine. By 22, she was back in LA, first training to be a stained-glass artist, then working as Zsa Zsa Gabor's PA.
Publishing and recording industry careers followed, until the band Heart inspired a move to Seattle, where her role as a production manager for a publishing firm landed her in front of MTV, on the day Curt Cobain died, whereby they aired her views on the tragedy throughout the coming weeks. Six months later, having narrowly escaped a hostage situation by America's most prolific bank robber, Fiona left Seattle and returned to London to regroup.
Working as a researcher for Arthur Andersen, she soon quit the corporate world and moved to Barcelona to teach English, and study Spanish. A trip around the world followed, whereby she fell in love with Mexico, and vowed one day to return. Back in England by 2007, she moved to Cambridge, and began working for a Member of Parliament, the University of Cambridge, and as an events planner for an 18th century mansion.
When the 2008 financial crash hit, she returned to studying, gaining a BA (Hons) Writing, at Anglia Ruskin, in Cambridge. Having fallen in love with screenwriting, when her first feature film script received a 'Consider' from the Page Awards, she rented out her home, and moved first to Hawaii, then onto Mexico City. Trading her writing, photography, English, cooking and reflexology skills for accommodation, three years later, she moved to Canada, to complete an MFA in Creative Writing, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Fiona's scripts have placed well in high-level competitions, including her feature film thesis, 'Malibu or Bust', which made the semi-finals at the Burbank International Film Festival, 2018. Her first TV pilot, 'The Duchess of Natchez' was a finalist at the Oaxaca Film Fest 2020, and a Coverfly quarter-finalist in 2022. Fiona has also written a song that reached the Finals of the UK and German Song writing Awards, 2019, and in 2018, her short play, 'Eight Different Ways to Unbelieve in Voodoo,' was selected for the Brave New Play Rites Festival, Vancouver.
Back in England when the pandemic hit, Fiona began to polish the 18 scripts she has written over the past nine years, while also perfecting her skills in Mexican cuisine.
Publishing and recording industry careers followed, until the band Heart inspired a move to Seattle, where her role as a production manager for a publishing firm landed her in front of MTV, on the day Curt Cobain died, whereby they aired her views on the tragedy throughout the coming weeks. Six months later, having narrowly escaped a hostage situation by America's most prolific bank robber, Fiona left Seattle and returned to London to regroup.
Working as a researcher for Arthur Andersen, she soon quit the corporate world and moved to Barcelona to teach English, and study Spanish. A trip around the world followed, whereby she fell in love with Mexico, and vowed one day to return. Back in England by 2007, she moved to Cambridge, and began working for a Member of Parliament, the University of Cambridge, and as an events planner for an 18th century mansion.
When the 2008 financial crash hit, she returned to studying, gaining a BA (Hons) Writing, at Anglia Ruskin, in Cambridge. Having fallen in love with screenwriting, when her first feature film script received a 'Consider' from the Page Awards, she rented out her home, and moved first to Hawaii, then onto Mexico City. Trading her writing, photography, English, cooking and reflexology skills for accommodation, three years later, she moved to Canada, to complete an MFA in Creative Writing, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Fiona's scripts have placed well in high-level competitions, including her feature film thesis, 'Malibu or Bust', which made the semi-finals at the Burbank International Film Festival, 2018. Her first TV pilot, 'The Duchess of Natchez' was a finalist at the Oaxaca Film Fest 2020, and a Coverfly quarter-finalist in 2022. Fiona has also written a song that reached the Finals of the UK and German Song writing Awards, 2019, and in 2018, her short play, 'Eight Different Ways to Unbelieve in Voodoo,' was selected for the Brave New Play Rites Festival, Vancouver.
Back in England when the pandemic hit, Fiona began to polish the 18 scripts she has written over the past nine years, while also perfecting her skills in Mexican cuisine.