Line Langebek

Line Langebek is a Danish-born screenwriter, living in London. She studied screenwriting at Bournemouth University and, prior to, attended the European Film College, as well as lived and travelled in France, South Africa, Israel, and China. She has worked as a commissioned writer on numerous shorts and feature films in the UK, US, France, Denmark, and Norway, as a freelance script consultant for both London and LA production offices, and as a literary translator and subtitler for TV. She has also contributed to magazines such as Broadcast, Scriptwriter UK, Sight & Sound and written short stories for Norwegian radio.

Her screen credits include the feature film I’LL COME RUNNING, the 30-min drama SINK OR SWIM for Channel 4, the Albanian-set documentary DUAM DRÏTE: WE WANT LIGHT for French television, EVERGREEN, ANONYMOUS as well as FIELD STORY for BFI’s big budget Shorts Scheme. She was the head writer and wrote a dozen episodes for the children’s comedy TV-series ROYALS NEXT DOOR (going out in Ireland, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and more), as part of an all-female writers’ room working between Finland, the U.K., Ireland and Spain.

In 2015, she co-founded Raising Films, together with a small group of producers, writers and directors, to campaign for better working conditions in the film and TV industry for parents and carers, and to help support future generations of storytellers too. For a few years, she was also part of Library of Change, co-founded with Sholeh Johnston, inspiring change through verbal Exchanges and Tiny Books and working with the artist Emily Tracy on the Arts Council England (ACE) supported collage project, Let’s Stick Together.

Line also lectures at Regent’s University, London, tutors at Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing and she is an occasional developmental story editor for the crime publisher Inkubator Books. She is a member of the WGGB’s Film Committee and is part of The Dissonant Futures Collective, supported by ACE. In 2023/2024, she has been also funded by ACE to work on a novel.

Line is an alumnus of the Guiding Lights programme (mentor Frank Cottrell-Boyce), as well as the Berlinale Talent Campus, and she is currently working on several feature film commissions in the UK and Denmark. THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE, a recent feature film that she co-wrote, is currently in the edit and is due to be released later in the year/early 2025.