Robert Cawsey

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Robert Cawsey

Robert Cawsey’s comedy-horror feature Don’t Even Go There has topped The Brit List of unproduced screenplays from emerging UK talent, which saw a marked increase in scripts without production companies attached.

Cawsey’s script follows a family hiking trip in Wales that is intended to bring a young man and his estranged parents closer, only for it to go horribly wrong when an ancient monster is unleashed, seeking revenge on the locals.

It received 24 recommendations, with a minimum of seven required to make the list.

The Brit List is compiled from recommendations by UK production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.

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Of the 15 titles on the list, it is one of 12 without a production company attached. This is up from last year, when only three of 13 listed titles were without production companies, and 2023, when it was five of 13.

The lack of production companies also applied at the submissions stage, with most of the 200 recommendations without a production company attached.

“This is surely a reflection of the challenging times the film and TV industries are currently facing, and makes it more important than ever that we, as an industry, continue to take risks and have the conviction to back brilliant storytelling,” said The Brit List founder and director Alexandra Arlango.

Arlango also noted “a high number of scripts in the sci-fi and horror genre… balanced with a higher number of scripts that lean into comedy.”

Genre titles on the list include Dylan Ritson and Blake Ritson’s sci-fi P.O.V., the project with the second-highest number of recommendations, with 20. Also available to production companies, the feature film is set in a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyone’s outlook on life, but a faulty prescription opens a man’s eyes to a reality he can’t unsee.

Four of the titles on the list are feature film scripts, with 11 television scripts, including Dylan Brady’s erotic thriller Discretion, produced by Kudos, about a struggling actor working as a nanny who plots to seduce his employers - a high-flying producer and her movie star husband – to gain advantage from their industry connections, without realising he’s walking into a trap

Selected writers will have the opportunity to attend a six-month programme featuring weekly seminars from industry guest speakers, including showrunners, producers, buyers, and specialists in personal finance, mental health, pitching techniques and personal branding.

Crime series The Rubber Faced Men topped last year’s list, while previous features to have appeared on the list include The King’s Speech, Paddington and The Favourite.

The 2025 Brit List

Synopses provided by The Brit List

28 recommendations

Don’t Even Go There scr. Robert Cawsey
Producers: Available
Form: Feature
Genre: Comedy horror
Summary: A family hiking trip in Wales, intended to bring Will and his estranged parents closer, goes horribly wrong when an ancient monster is unleashed, seeking revenge on the locals.

20 recommendations

P.O.V, scrs. Dylan Ritson, Blake Ritson
Producers: Available
Form: Feature
Genre: Elevated sci-fi
Summary: In a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyone’s outlook on life, a faulty prescription opens Lyle’s eyes to a reality he can’t unsee.

18 recommendations

Discretion scr. Dylan Brady
Producers: Kudos
Form: TV
Genre: Erotic thriller
Summary: When struggling actor Jacob is offered a nannying job by a high-flying producer and her movie star husband, he plots to seduce his employers and gain advantage from their industry connections – not realising he’s walking into a trap.

15 recommendations

Revolting scr. Jack Holden
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Drama
Summary: Revolting is the fabulously explosive story of the British gay liberation movement from 1970 to 1990, inspired by the experiences of real life activist, Lisa Power 

Always Greener scr. Lewis Wren
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: High concept romantic comedy
Summary: A struggling artist, haunted by past failure, is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe, only to discover that living his fantasy has cost him the love of his life.

12 recommendations

Chasing The Night scr. Abraham Adeyemi
Producers: Available
Form: Feature
Genre: Romance
Summary: Former lovers Fatimah and Leon meet serendipitously in Athens on the last night of their respective trips. The hurdles they could not overcome in their home city suddenly fade. Can this new landscape give them a fresh start? They have one night to find out.

The Widow Making Syndicate scr. Bethan Moore
Producers: Available
Form: Feature
Genre: Crime / black comedy drama
Summary: In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic. 133 men are murdered, and the club’s ringleader, the young, beautiful and bat-shit Zsofi Kovacs, is put on trial, facing the death penalty. But has she actually done anything wrong? Based on a true crime story. 

10 recommendations

Winging It scr. Wisdom Charis
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Comedy drama
Summary: A comedy about newly orphaned Steady, following her as she navigates grief, adult life and the Herculean task that is taking over her dad’s white van man company (something hard to do when she’s not even one of those three things) accompanied by her clueless but loveable friends.

Maternal scr. Adam Tindall
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Offbeat action thriller
Summary: An unassuming middle-aged woman and her teenage son are forced to flee their humdrum lives, when the mother’s past as a master assassin finally catches up with her.

9 recommendations

Children Of The State scr. Sarah Louise Madden
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Dystopian thriller
Summary: Children Of The State is set in a near future world where, to save a crumbling welfare system, family size is now based upon citizens’ wages – all children who cannot be afforded are taken and raised by the state. Lowri Morgan, a working-class doctor, begins to question her complicity in this utopic world.

8 recommendations

Sweatshop Boy scr. Arran Shargall
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Workplace drama
Summary: A fast-fashion assistant discovers a secret so explosive it could destroy the very industry he’s desperately trying to conquer, forcing him to choose between self-destructing his own career to expose the truth or silencing it forever to protect his rise to power.

For Such A Time As This scr. Stephanie Yamson
Producers: Five Acts Productions
Form: TV
Genre: Drama
Summary: Four lifelong friends navigate love, ambition, health and sisterhood in modern-day London. Their worlds intertwine through laughter, secrets, and heartbreak — until tragedy strikes, forcing them to question what it truly means to show up for each other.

7 recommendations

Darling Of The Right, Enemy Of My People scr. Mahad Ali
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Political thriller
Summary: A charismatic secondary school headteacher is unexpectedly nominated as the Conservative candidate for London’s Mayor. In turn, her deeply held values clash with both her past and the complex realities of her diverse community – forcing her to confront uncomfortable truths about loyalty, identity, and power.

I’m F*cking Amazing scr. Anoushka Warden
Producers: Fifth Season in association with Bond Group Entertainment
Form: TV
Genre: Comedy drama
Summary: Una can’t get wet. She must be broken. Newly engaged, she sets off on a desperate quest to fix her bits… What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can’t stand sex with the best guy ever? I’m F*cking Amazing is a hilarious dive into female sexual desire.

Sovereign scr. Chloe Mai White
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Political financial thriller
Summary: When the UK can’t afford to pay its national debt, a government lawyer whose marriage is imploding, is thrust into the spotlight as she fights to save the nation from economic catastrophe.

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