Anthony Povah

Anthony is an award-winning writer and filmmaker born in Liverpool and now based in Lancashire. In 2017 he reached the interview stage of the BBC Drama Room scheme and was selected for (and completed) the New Writing North Significant Ink programme for talented, emerging screenwriters.

During 2019 he made his playwriting debut at The Dukes Theatre in Lancaster as co-writer of ‘Escaping the Perfects’, and wrote, co-directed and co-produced his first narrative short film ‘A Cheat’s Guide to Time Travel’ with Bina Film.

In 2020 he made his second short film as writer, co-director and co-producer - the comedy-drama ‘Slots’ - which has been selected for 23 film festivals and achieved 6 wins; the script also reaching the finals of the Fresh Voices and Nantucket Film Festival Showtime Tony Cox screenplay competitions.

He has recently acted as a script consultant for Red Film’s production ’Transgressing’, and his third short film with Bina as writer, co-producer and co-director - ‘Kidnap’ - is due for release in 2023. Anthony’s writing regularly places at semi-final or higher in major competitions in the US and UK.

His most recent project - a TV conspiracy thriller - is rated in the Top 1% of all scripts on the global script platform Coverfly.

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A cutting-edge thriller about an Artificial Intelligence takeover, written in consultation with leading AI and cybersecurity experts.

During a routine overnight update at the headquarters of a major UK telecoms giant, two IT workers unknowingly set something terrifying in motion. They've started an LCE - an AI Loss of Control Event.

Over the course of one night, a handful of staff race to regain control as forces far beyond the building begin to close in. What’s been unleashed threatens to change everything — and soon there may be no way to put it back.

This is a very a real and disastrous phenomenon, and it could happen to us very soon.

Starring Edward Bluemel and Corinna Brown.
Artificial Intelligence consultant: Saffron Huang.
Cybersecurity consultant: Adam Orton.

Written by James Dobbyn and Anthony Povah.

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