Maggie Pope is a freelance film and TV drama development consultant and script editor.
Following a career in community development Maggie took a change of direction in 1989 when she joined Majestic Films, a leading feature film sales company, with responsibility for development and acquisitions. Feature films financed by the company included Driving Miss Daisy, Henry V, Dances with Wolves. Majestic had a growing slate of films in development and expanded into international television. In 1996 she joined Little Bird, an independent production company based in the UK and Ireland, whose feature credits included Into the West, A Man of No Importance, Nothing Personal, My Mother's Courage. While based in the London office of Little Bird she worked on the development of a number of feature films including All for Love, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Croupier, Adios and a variety of TV dramas including Dirty Tricks.
As Head of Development at the Little Bird Company she was responsible for feature film and television drama development. She was based in the Dublin office between January 2001 and December 2003 developing Irish based TV drama and feature projects. She was associate producer on Relative Strangers, a four part drama for RTE and NRW(Germany) starring Brenda Fricker and directed by Giles Foster. She devised the original 8 part drama series for RTE, On Home Ground, and was associate producer of the series. She developed and was associate producer of No Tears, based on the Hepatitis C scandal in Ireland, written by Brian Phelan, directed by Stephen Burke and starring Brenda Fricker, Tina Kelleher and Maria Doyle Kennedy which won best mini-series at the Monte Carlo Film and Television Awards 2002. She is currently developing and script editing a number of independent feature film projects in Ireland and the UK.
