• Jo Hannah Afton

    Screenwriter | Novelist | Photographer

  • Film & TV Projects

    KILLER NIGHT SHIFT (Co-writer: Tom Freyer)

    Suspense Thriller

    Produced by MarVista. A Lifetime TV film.

    Premiered August 25th, 2018

     

    CLICK HERE to watch!

     

     

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    OLD AS BONES

    Under Contract

    TV Pilot and Bible

    Sons of Anarchy meets True Blood.

     

    Vampires, werewolves and witches tackle the end of times in this 90 minute TV pilot set in the near future in a dramatic and super sexy post-apocalyptic landscape. This project is now under contract with an established producer.

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    INDIGO SKY

    Available

    A mystical adventure drama.

    • Offiicial Selection ~ 2023 Beverly Hills Film Festival
    • Semi-Finalist (top 5%) ~ 2018 ScreenCraft Film Fund Contest
    • Top 10% ~ 2019 Academy of Motion Pictures Nicholl Fellowship
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    ACROSS THE OCEAN

    Available

    A romantic drama.

    • Top 10 Finalist  (Drama)~ 2019 International Screenwriting Association (ISA) Emerging Screenwriter's Genre Contest
    • Semi-Finalist (top 3%) ~ 2019 BlueCat Screenplay  Contest

    JUDGE'S FEEDBACK

    "(the script) is an engrossing drama that is dynamic, well-paced, and replete with emotional complexity. The characters all have fully-formed personalities, contradictory in the way humans always are without ever sacrificing their inherent core; they seem to live and breathe. And most impressively, in a film that focuses almost exclusively on a love triangle, there is no overt villain—only traumatized people with understandable positions, all trying to do their best with the hands they have been dealt. Their painful situation is handled with compassion and nuance."

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    EMMA'S WAR (Co-writer: Glenn Mitchell)

    Available

    A US civil war biopic based on a true story.

    • Finalist and Winner of the Spotlight Award for Best Female Lead, Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition 2017
    • Finalist, Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Fellowship 2017
    • Quarterfinalist (top 3%), American Zoetrope Contest 2018
    1861. A spirited girl flees an arranged marriage for life in the United States, dresses as a man to make a living, and ultimately enlists in the Union Army as an infantry soldier. Based on the true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, the first woman in American history to receive a military pension for service in the Armed Forces. And she was Canadian.
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    GHOSTS IN THE FIRE

    Available

    A dark family drama.

    • Top 20% ~ 2017 Academy of Motion Pictures Nicholl Contest.

    With a tax auction on her heels, a horse breeder with a dark past leaves in search of her estranged twin brother -- a combat veteran living off grid in Idaho -- to get his signature on the family farm deed. To gain his cooperation, she will need to unearth family secrets and square up on an old debt.

     

    "Ghosts in the Fire" is a dark drama with the dusty western edge of "Hell or High Water" fused with the Southern underbelly of "Winters Bone."
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    MOON GARDEN

    Available

    A dark romantic comedy.

    Who doesn’t like an awkward love story between socially
    maladapted people with weirdly fascinating habits

    and strange diseases?

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    MILITARY ORCHID

    Available

    A Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller (with comedic undertones)

    “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.”

    ~ Alan Moore

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    COVE OF CROSSING

    Available

    Sci-Fi Fantasy Novel and TV Series

    What if fairies were real? But they weren't what you thought they were... not at all?

     

    An intelligent Sci-Fi Fantasy novel with a cast of complex, intriguing and fun leading female roles. If you are interested in the book publishing rights, or the film rights, please contact my agent.

  • Women have stories.

    I tell them.

     

     

     

    IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD

    My leading ladies are in it to win it, and

    when they venture out, they're on their own to solve whatever life throws their way. Some will go to hell and back to get what they want, and others will die trying. My stories are emotional, messy, suspenseful... my subjects can be controversial, and my lead characters unpredictable.

     

    It's her story. We're just along for the ride.

     

    Best you buckle up.

    MY GENRES:

    Drama

    Thriller

    Fantasy

     

    MY STYLE:
    Mystical

    Character Driven
    Emotional

    Psychological

    Gritty
    Bizarre

    Altered States

    Stark

    Small Town Life

    Unconventional

    Uplifting

    Empowering

  • Contact me

     

    PRODUCERS & INDIE FILMMAKERS

     

    Contact me to discuss working on your next female-driven concept. I write to your specs, on your budget. Your creative vision is important to me.

     

    INVESTORS

     

    Are you interested in helping to finance my work or a project that I am producing? I often have projects in development that are not public, so feel free to inquire about investment opportunities.

  • Look inside.

    It's the only adventure that counts.

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