Abigail Tarttelin

Film and Television

In her first acting role Tarttelin played Fenella in The Butterfly Tattoo.^[8] The following year she took the starring role in independent sci-fi Schrodinger's Girl^[9] (now titled Triple Hit)^[10] in which she played three versions of the same woman in parallel worlds.^[11] The film premiered in 2009 at the San Diego Comic-Con International. She attended Comic-Con and Cannes Film Festival with The Butterfly Tattoo and Triple Hit, and in 2009 became one of only two actresses to make it into Moviescope magazine's "ones to watch" selection of British artists working in independent film.^{[12][13][14][15]} She also appeared in the film Three Stags, directed by Mark Locke, and bilingual thriller Taxi Rider in 2010.^[16] In addition her involvement with Equity (trade union) saw her elected as Chairperson for the inaugural Young Members' Committee.

Her directing credits include the trailers for Flick^[17] and Golden Boy,^[18] the music video for Michael Reeve's cover of Flume by Bon Iver,^[19] and in 2016 a television pilot called The Danelaw.

Most recently she was asked to be involved in the judging process on the main jury for the 2016 BIFA's (British Independent Film Awards).

Writing

Tarttelin's debut novel, Flick, was first published by Beautiful Books in April 2011. The rights have since been purchased by W&N who republished the novel in May 2015. The story follows a disaffected teenage boy named Flick in a small factory town in northern England, where "bleak and sometimes treacherous circumstances make the taste of a love affair even sweeter." It was hailed "a slow-burn cult classic" by GQ who found it "both authentic and compelling"^[20]

In 2013, she published her second novel Golden Boy, about an intersex teenager. It has since been published in Chinese,^[21] Spanish^[22] and Portuguese.^[23] It won a 2014 Alex Awards from the American Library Association,^[24] was one of School Library Journal's best books of 2013,^[25] and was shortlisted for the 2014 LAMBDA Award for Best Debut LGBT Fiction.^[26] The book has been well received by readers and the film rights are also in discussion.^{[27][28][29][30][31]}

Her third novel, Dead Girls, is due to be published in the UK in April 2018.

In addition to her three novels Tarttelin has worked as a screenwriter for Academy Award shortlisted^[32] filmmaker Chris Jones.^[33] as well as writing the screenplay for the television pilot of The Danelaw. She has also written for the blog Women & Hollywood^[34] and founded and edits the publication I Hope You Like Feminist Rants.