Joseph V Sultana
Screenwriter
Four completed features. One clear voice.
Slate 2026
Screenwriter
Four completed features. One clear voice.
Slate 2026
The Writer
British-Maltese dual citizen and Chartered Quality Professional with thirty-five years' experience inside the institutional systems I write about. I deliver high-precision, production-ready screenplays designed to minimise risk and maximise impact. My focus is providing the solid narrative architecture that producers, directors and financiers can take forward with absolute confidence.
The Slate
A rising city banker is administratively erased by an unchallengeable compliance process. Released years later without charge, he returns under a new identity - not for revenge, but to master the system that destroyed him. A precise, contained thriller driven by strategy, restraint and consequence.
Michael Clayton meets a contemporary Count of Monte Cristo.
100% UK · Feature script complete
A decommissioned intelligence operative discovers his wife's death in action was caused by a simple set of Standard Operating Procedures that are still in use and still authorised. When he realises the protocols themselves are the trap, he initiates a quiet, relentless descent into the heart of Whitehall.
Le Carré without the glamour. Includes a developed 6x60 limited series expansion.
100% UK · Feature script complete
In a collapsed England twenty years from now, a man who has spent eighteen years trying to die returns to the town that destroyed his family. To find peace, he must navigate the remnants of the very bureaucracy that failed the country and confront the enforcer who took everything.
The emotional weight of Prisoners set against a grounded British collapse.
100% UK - Devon and Cornwall · Feature script complete
When a Maltese homicide inspector pulls a body from the Grand Harbour, she discovers the island itself is a six-thousand-year-old antenna for those who can read time. Ancient resonance meets modern crime as a fugitive begins literally erasing history.
Grounded crime thriller with mythic undertones.
100% Malta · Feature script complete
Malta is not the setting. It is the story.
Four distinct, adult, performance-driven scripts from a writer who has lived the worlds he describes.
Each is designed to be lean and shootable, shaped by a professional background in quality assurance and risk management. Full packages including one-pagers, writer vision documents and visual references available on request.
jvsultana@icloud.com