Francis Higgins Screenplays

 Francis Higgins is a published poet and screenplay writer from Belfast. His screenplay STOLEN has been optioned by DeuceFilms of London. He has also written short stories, and futurist sci fi novella The Sleep Button.

Francis Higgins was born in Belfast in August 1958. The family then moved to Luton, Bedfordshire where Francis attended Cardinal Newman secondary and Bedford college. In the early 70,S Francis won the Cadbury young writers prize for his essay ‘The shape of things to come’.

Trained as a software developer and Microsoft credited tutor Francis started Ireland’s first internet Search index in 1997. Gasta( faster in Irish) then became one of the first search marketing companies in Ireland. Francis was always written and developing new ideas and produced videos and websites as a multimedia producer for AMI. With an established background in copywriting and marketing Francis began to develop his screenwriting in 2010. He has now written several developed projects and helps other writers with formatting and script polishing.