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Up Yours, Bridget Jones

After a blow to the head, a Brit trying to make her mark in LA before it's too late is forced to confront a wicked drinking habit, the blaming of Renee Zellweger for everything wrong in life and the reappearance of her dad. Which would be OK, if he hadn't been dead for years.
Up Yours is a comedy that comments on that Brit/Yank 'special relationship' as well as the business we call 'show', but, at it's heart, is an unusual, offbeat, father-daughter redemption story.

  • Pippa Hinchley
    Pippa Hinchley - credits
    PIPPA HINCHLEY BIO Pippa has been a TV, film and theatre actor for more years than she cares to say but if you are very old you may recognize her as superbitch Elaine Fenwick in Coronation Street, or from numerous BBC series and movies including The Bill, Eastenders, Holby City Hangar 17, Michael Palin’s hit film East Of Ipswich, And A Nightingale Sang, The Dressmaker, Z for Zachariah. Pippa also played Fergie in NBC’s epic royal flick, Fergie and Andrew, although she's never been sure if she should mention it. Theatre credits includes Elma in Bus Stop (with Jerry Hall, West End), Noises Off and Going To The Chapel at Salisbury Playhouse; As You Like It, Measure For Measure and JourneyMan Jack at Liverpool Playhouse, Dead Funny at Chichester; 2 sell-out Edinburgh Festival shows and many plays directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn including Comic Potential, AR Gurney’s Later Life and Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. Pippa has written for sketch shows on radio, Sky TV and for C4's Emmy and Golden Globe winning Smack The Pony, penned 2 sell out Edinburgh comedy shows including solo show Destination Elevation which also played at the Soho Theatre, London, and since doing a screenwriting MA, has credits for short film, theatre, web series and TV, including the award winning, Cannes Official Selection Breaking Out and hit SONY UK /Bebo plot-interactive teen web drama Sophia’s Diary - the 1st UK webseries to transfer directly onto terrestrial TV - Ch 5. She produced her own incredibly low rent web-sketch show Live!Sex!Girls! which was picked up by Babelgum and StaytunedTV and was nominated for best comedy actress at WebFest. She has just written for a new comedy on Lifetime and is in tortuous funding stages on 3 feature films. Since moving to LA, Pippa has been in film festival hit Barracuda, Fox series TOUCH and Dreamworks’ film People Like Us, directed by Alex Kurtzman, as well as writing & performing at the LA Comedy Festival with Live!Sex!Girls! and finally having the balls to do stand-up because no one could possibly recognize her from 'off the telly' if she bombed. She has played the main room at The Comedy Store, the Belly Room and the Improv. Pippa is repped by top UK lit agent Casarotto Ramsay and Avalon Artists Group theatrically. 4 of her scripts have won or placed in major contests and 3 are currently placed and still in the running for Screencraft, The Page and others. @funnybritchix www.pippahinchley.com www.livesexgirlscomedy.com Sofia’s Diary – Sony TV /Bebo and Channel 5. – 60 eps. Writer on series 2 and 3 of hit teen drama. Breaking Out – short film (psychological thriller) produced by Intrepido films and currently in festivals worldwide. Director Marienela Maldonado. Producer Paola Minnazzato. This film has was premiered in the International Critic’s Week Competition, Cannes 2004. It has since been at the Edinburgh and London International Film Festivals and over 20 others including Bilbao, San Paulo, Clermont Ferrand, Brussels, Korea. WINNER OF BEST EUROPEAN SHORT at Premier Plans, Angers 2005. The Other Side- short film, written for and produced by the Rutger Hauer’s 2008 Film Factory, Rotterdam. Premiered at Rotterdam film festival. Mystery– one minute short 'ident' for NBC Europe(produced by the Rutger Hauer film factory) to promote their European 13th Street crime and thriller channel. Smack The Pony – sketches for C4 sketch show/Talkback. Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner. No Limit - Comedy sketches for five episodes of Sky TV sketch show. Live!Sex!Girls! – the web series. Writer and Producer. Babelgum TV and StayTuned Tv Interview For Life; Seven Scenes About Sex; Strange New World; Death By Misadventure; Inside Out; Love, In 15 Minutes – 20’ films written for and produced by RADA drama school using a workshop/devising technique with the actors. The Gravity of Belief – script consultant/producer - runner up Best Film, London short film festival awards. (2008) and Farewell Routemaster (2006). Don’t Even Think It – written by multi-million best selling author Jasper Fforde - script consultant and co-producer.( Runner-Up for Best Lo-Budget short – London Film Festival 2007.)
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay, Television Script
  • Genres:
    Comedy
  • Number of Pages:
    92
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Screencraft Comedy Feature competition - Up Yours Bridget Jones
    Los Angeles
    September 1, 2016
    Quarter finalst
  • The Page International Screenplay Comp - Up Yours, Bridget Jones
    USA
    September 1, 2016
    Quarterfinalist
  • National Lampoon Search for comedy gold
    Los angeles
    November 1, 2018
    FINALIST
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