I Am Bird Gurl
By Laurence Turnbull
(Magical mystery drama: 6×30’)
Billie Devine, a narcoleptic 13-year-old girl, falls asleep so often she struggles to distinguish reality from dreams.
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SERIES OVERVIEW
When she dreams, she dreams she is ‘Bird Gurl’, soaring above her own life on glorious six foot eagle wings. So when her Dad goes missing, accused of murder, and her dreams seem to offer clues to the mystery of his disappearance, she resolves to harness the power of ‘Bird Gurl’ and find him before anyone else does.
When she dreams, she dreams she is ‘Bird Gurl’, soaring above her own life on glorious six foot eagle wings. So when her Dad goes missing, accused of murder, and her dreams seem to offer clues to the mystery of his disappearance, she resolves to harness the power of ‘Bird Gurl’ and find him before anyone else does.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Born in Liverpool but raised in Blackpool, Laurence Turnbull works in documentaries. Highlights include Gods of Snooker (series editor) which was nominated for a Grierson award, Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (director), Born to be Different (series producer) and Crackhouse, a documentary that focused on the plight of three crack addicted women in Liverpool, which won a Grierson award.
Turnbull has also been a showrunner on hit global shows like Young Apprentice and Big fat Gypsy Weddings and directed on Wife Swap S2, which won a Bafta. He is father to four kids and bides by something a dad of seven said to him when he was working on Wife Swap USA – “Keep up with the younger ones and stay ahead of the older ones and you’ll be OK.”
