Stuart Armstrong
Writing
Biography
Cumbrian filmmaker Stuart Armstrong began his career as a writer and production designer, penning and designing several acclaimed short films including 'Paul Is Dead' and 'The Leerie' (BFI Network). He became a BAFTA Connect member in 2023, and as of 2025 is developing several short and feature film projects as as writer/director.
Known For
Cumbria, 1998. Terrified he's turned his son queer, closeted dad Rich plots to rig his local pub's Christmas turkey draw to prove what it means to be a real man.
Meat Raffle
An overwhelmed woman listens to a sleep ambience app to unwind before bed, but when the sounds eerily begin to blend with reality, she suspects it has conjured something frightening into her room.
Outside Noise
1967. Hungover and at each other’s throats, John, George and Ringo must convince Billy Shears, a sheepish rural lookalike, to join their band after Paul dies during a drug filled musical retreat.
Paul Is Dead
A closeted man gets more than he bargained for on his first gay hookup.
Lay-by
A bashful local vicar is called upon to save a haunted nudist camp from the prudish poltergeist covering their privates.
Free Spirits
In 1899, a Scottish lamplighter facing redundancy is haunted by nightmarish visions of an electric future.
The Leerie
After new evidence proves his innocence, the wife of a notorious serial killer must come to terms with the fact that her husband is not the psychotic killer she fell in love with.
The Nun Slayer
Alone. Empty. Followed. How fast does fear make you run?
BOOTSTRAPS
A begrudging 16th century peasant must traverse the eerie and unrelenting Cumbrian fells to deliver the body of his loathed late mother-in-law to holy ground.