Rebecca Frayn

Rebecca Frayn is a writer and filmmaker whose work blends creative storytelling with activism. Spanning documentaries, feature films, novels, and real-world restoration projects, her work explores themes of women’s rights, social justice, and ecological sustainability.

As a factual director, she has made a wide range of documentary films for the BBC and Channel 4. Her films are authored essays, delving into subjects that fascinate her—from the lives of identical twins and the roles of Tory Wives during the final days of a Conservative government, to minimalist lifestyles and the transformation of a Victorian mental asylum into luxury apartments.  Links to view can be found on this website.

Rebecca has also directed two dramas, the second of which,  Whose Baby?, is a hard hitting film about fathers’ rights, starring Sophie Okonedo and Andrew Lincoln.

As a screenwriter, Rebecca has originated and written two feature films. The Lady, (2012), starring Michelle Yeoh, which tells the story of Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world’s most prominent prisoners of conscience. The film won the International Human Rights Film Award in partnership with Amnesty International. Her second film,  Misbehaviour, (2020), starring Keira Knightley, and explores the birth of the Women’s Movement.  It had a nationwide release and received critical acclaim.

In 2006, Rebecca signed a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster. Her debut novel, One Life (2007), explored the emotional and ethical complexities of IVF and was selected as a Daily Mail Book Club choice. Her second novel, Deceptions (2010) —a psychological thriller about a missing twelve-year-old boy—was named one of Waterstones’ Books of the Year. Her third novel, Lost in Ibiza (2024), explores complex family dynamics against an ecological backdrop. 

Her environmental activism has been wide ranging. She has directed viral films to raise awareness of green issues and co-founded Climate Action Now, an environmental lobbying group with fellow female creatives. In 2008, the Evening Standard named her one of the 100 Most Influential Environmental Campaigners of the Year. Since 2006, she has co-founded and chaired a community group dedicated to boosting bio-diversity in a public park in West London. In 2019, she took on Can Pep—an off-grid, regenerative farm in northern Ibiza, which she now runs with her son, @FinnHarries. She is currently adapting her novel Lost in Ibiza Into a screenplay for the British Film Institute.

Contacts

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