ABOUT
My love of film started early, but it was my dad’s old video cameras that sparked my love of storytelling. From there it transpired into writing, directing and producing.
I’m a Los Angeles–based writer-director and fine art photographer, originally from Newquay, Cornwall (UK).
I’m drawn to character-driven stories about identity, reinvention, and the beautifully messy experience of being thrown into completely unfamiliar territory. Especially as a woman…
Maybe that comes from my own life experience.
I’ve now spent as much time living outside the UK as I did growing up there… moving from Cornwall to Australia, to Vancouver Canada, and now a small mountain town outside Los Angeles.
At one point, I even lived in a VW Westfalia van for one year, driving through South, Central and North America with my then partner/now husband (which, honestly, still surprises me too!) That sense of freedom through dislocation will be forever in my veins, and then rebuilding a life again and again has found its way into nearly everything I write.
For a decade, I produced commercial, key art, and live-action work in Canada, learning the ins and outs of running a good ship through every stage of production. And, when we moved to the US, I shifted focus toward writing and filmmaking.
Most recently, I wrote and directed a proof-of-concept for an original dramedy series (Yoga Pants), winning the CFA Pinnacle Award. My award-winning short film She screened internationally, and my fine art photography has exhibited across the US and Canada.
I’ve also completed a YA fantasy novel — a friendship-driven adventure inspired by my grandfather’s storytelling, that I’m currently querying, alongside my tv dramedy series and a feature screenplay, inspired by my own honeymoon across India (by motorbike).
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After her grandfather’s death leaves her a cryptic warning and a strange medallion, an impulsive, grief-stricken, teen-girl is drawn into a cursed magical world beneath Cornwall—where, alongside her misfit friends, she must stop it from collapsing into her own or lose everything… including herself.
Comps: His Dark Materials, Impossible Creatures, and Wayward Children
For fans of emotionally grounded, friendship-driven fantasy with mythic stakes, blending the found-family adventure of contemporary/crossover Young Adult with the classic wonder of portal fantasy.
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A newly married couple set off across 1990s India on a Royal Enfield after a wedding that goes up in flames… Only for the honeymoon to become a reckoning not of how to stay together, but how to let each other go with love.
Tone: Past Lives × Before Midnight with the spiritual backdrop of Eat Pray Love
Inspired by a true story.
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A sardonic, hot-mess writer joins a Venice yoga cult to prove it’s BS—and she’ll bend over backwards to do it, until real healing and the guru’s cartel ties risk her last shot at belonging.
Tone: Fleabag meets spiritual chaos in LA.
→ See trailer here
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After losing everything in a Bitcoin scam, a disgraced tech consultant moves onto a rundown boat and clashes with a chaotic marina of misfits who force him to rebuild his life from the hull up.
Tone: My Name Is Earl/Schitt’s Creek on the water. Chaotic, heartfelt, and full of lovable degenerates.
For scripts, manuscripts, or collaboration inquiries, get in touch.
📍 Los Angeles / Narrative, commercial & visual storytelling
contact@adelethomas.com | +1 424 206 0970
Selected production work → A&C Productions
Top 50 selection.
International Screenwriters’ Association & Script Pipeline
Sherman Oaks Film Festival - Live Q&A with Jeff Howard
2023 Discover Indie Film Podcast with Jeff Howard
Adele Thomas’s short “She” played the Sherman Oaks Film Festival picking up three awards in two categories, in November 2020. The Grand Jury Prize for Best Music Video as well as Outstanding Performance, Individual Award – Experimental for Kennedy Knopf and Outstanding Cinematography – Experimental for Julie Kim.
“She” also took home Best Music Video at Long Story Shorts 2021 and Lonely Seal International.
You can watch “She” right now on the streaming service TVHi and at some point in 2023 it will join the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video.
In “The Truth Is..”, artists and collaborators Lindsay Elliot, Sarah Tesla and Adele Thomas present a selection of their photographic works focused around the interrelationships between people and place.
Using a mix of landscape and portraiture, each photograph embodies an individual truth as it is manifest in experience: from the beauty of the Lower Mainland, to several locations across North and West Africa and the Middle East.
Artist Statement:
Initiated in 2015, this Dance Series is founded in the five primordial elements that make up our world and our bodies: fire, water, earth, air, and spirit. Working in collaboration with local dancers, these photographs seek to capture the strength and fluidity of the feminine. The dancers’ movements and invoke feelings of isolation and freedom when immersed within the raw beauty of nature. The dance is symbolic to the elements, and emphasizes that we come of the earth, not "into" it. By exploring powerful movement and intuitive self expression, the dancer truly embodies the connection to one or more of the elements. This series unites the female form in their strength, in their power and in their beauty, as captured in the fantastical art form of dance.
