about

Felix von Stumm is a London-based screenwriter and producer — one who is occasionally required, against his will, to describe himself in the linguistically awkward third person.

As a writer, Felix has been hired by Allan Scott, creator of The Queen’s Gambit, to pen a new draft of his latest feature project. This year also saw Felix write on Applause Entertainment’s flagship Indian TV show Gandhi, as well script editing the fourth series of BBC Studios India’s Criminal Justice. 

Closer to home, Felix is developing three projects with Shush Films: a sports-comedy feature about mini-golf’s ill-advised and ultimately catastrophic 1976 bid for Olympic status, a drama series about the breakaway formation of the Premier League in 1992, and finally a satirical TV show about the non-fatal national fuck-ups that the British public would rather forget.

As a producer, Felix is in pre-production on an Oxford-set historical thriller, The Reformation of Sister Edith, written and directed by Samuel Sebastian Cox. Beyond this, Felix and Sebastian continue to develop a slate of distinctive film and TV projects together, including a series adaptation of one of the world’s best-selling board games in partnership with Asmodee Entertainment, publishers of Catan. (The adaptation, to be clear, isn’t Catan, which was already taken. I/‘he’ did check.) 

In his former role as the co-founder of ScriptUp, Felix reviewed and developed screenplays for Allan Scott’s Rafford Films, Simon Kelton’s Inspirational Entertainment and Oscar-winning German production company Beta Film among others. During this time, Felix also coordinated the Jed Mercurio Mentorship Programme for screenwriters from under-represented backgrounds. His latest extra-curricular involves producing the screenwriting track of the annual Manchester Film Festival. 

Felix has a first-class degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and, stomach-turning earnestness of this profile aside, tries not to take himself too seriously.

* © Thames Valley Police (sketch artist composite)

** Please do not enquire as to the nature of the charge, which continues to be a source of significant embarrassment to me, my close personal friend Thomas ‘Diplo’ Pentz, and the starting five of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA team.