Andrew David Barker

Andrew David Barker is a UK screenwriter novelist and film director As a filmmaker he wrote and directed the postapocalyptic microfeature A Reckoning which starred Leslie Simpson and Axelle Carolyn and has made several awardwinning short films including Laura Living Backwards which he cowrote with director Kate Horlor Shining Tor Two Old Boys and Baby on Board from a script by Stephen Volk In the feature film world Barker is a coscreenwriter on the forthcoming horror How to Survive the Wild starring Tim Plester and Richard Brake directed by Adam Park and the writerdirector of the microbudget chiller The House on Lidderman Street He is also the coscreenwriter of the British gangland thriller Improper Bastards directed by Rick Roberts and has several other projects in development for 2027 He is the author of The Electric Dead Leaves The Winterman and Society Place and is an Arts Council Grant recipient for his writing He writes about filmmaking and screenwriting on his Substack Outrun the Doubt httpsandrewdavidbarkersubstackcom