Alice Bell

Alice Bell is a multi-award winning Australian screenwriter and director. Bell is notable for her work writing for high-end Australian drama, including The Beautiful Lie, The Slap, Spirited, Rush and Puberty Blues. She has directed music videos for artists including Silverchair, Toni Collette and the Finish, Jimmy Barnes, Little Birdy, and Missy Higgins; winning the ARIA Award in 2007 for Best Video, with co-director Paul Goldman, for Silverchair’s Straight Lines.

Bell grew up in the harbour-side suburb of Balmain, Sydney. After a series of "terrible" jobs, including a stint as a dental nurse and role at an electroplating factory, she chose to forgo formal training and began working in the film industry as production assistant, making her way up to Production Manager at Leah Churchill-Brown's company The Doll Collective.

In 2006, at age 27, Bell’s first feature film, Suburban Mayhem, was invited to screen at Cannes Film Festival. The film then went to the Toronto International Film Festival for its North American premiere before receiving an international release. The screenplay won Bell the AWGIE Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2012, despite it being the first script Bell had ever written. The film however was a critical failure. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a "rotten" rating of 20%, based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. Bell obsessively researched true crime in order to piece together the story, going so far as attending murder trials to gain insight into crime within families. She completed the script in her early twenties.

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