Biography: Born and raised in Nottingham, Avril E. Russell is self-taught as a Screenwriter and trained as a film and video technician at Intermedia Film and Video in Nottingham. In 2007 she won Best Script at the Long Beach Action On Film International Film Festival with the unproduced female-led action thriller "Bulletproof". She was a finalist for Best Script at the Pennsylvania's Spirit Quest film festival, 2010.