Joseph V. Sultana
Screenwriter
Five production-ready feature scripts. A six-episode audio series and a single-play audio thriller.
Slate 2026
Screenwriter
Five production-ready feature scripts. A six-episode audio series and a single-play audio thriller.
Slate 2026
The Writer
British-Maltese screenwriter and Chartered Quality Professional. After 35 years working inside complex institutional systems, I write thrillers about bureaucracy, power, compliance, and the human cost of procedure. My stories explore the gap between what institutions are designed to do and what they actually do. Combining authentic operational detail with disciplined narrative structure, I specialise in grounded, performance-driven screenplays where the system itself is often the antagonist.
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 blind revenge, but to weaponise the very system that destroyed him.
Michael Clayton meets The Count of Monte Cristo.
Feature Script Complete · 100% UK
A decommissioned intelligence handler discovers his wife's death in action was caused by a routine set of Standard Operating Procedures still in active use. Realising the protocol itself is the trap, he initiates a quiet, relentless descent into the bureaucracy of Whitehall.
Le Carré without the glamour.
Feature Script Complete (100% UK) · Includes 6x60 Limited Series Expansion · Also Adapted as a 1x60 Audio Drama
In a collapsed, near-future England, a man who has spent eighteen years trying to die is forced back to the town that destroyed his family. To find peace, he must navigate the remnants of a failed state and confront the enforcer who took everything.
The emotional weight of Prisoners set against a grounded British collapse.
Feature Script Complete · 100% UK (Devon & Cornwall)
When a homicide inspector pulls a body from Valletta's Grand Harbour, she uncovers a secret six thousand years in the making: Malta itself functions as an antenna for those who can read time. As a fugitive begins actively rewriting history, ancient resonance collides with modern crime.
Grounded crime thriller with mythic undertones.
Feature Script Complete · 100% Malta
Malta is not the setting. It is the story.
When a village WW2 re-enactment society and a rival survivalist group stake claim to the same patch of countryside, a bureaucratic turf war escalates into full-blown comic warfare, culminating in a beachfront "peace" summit that rapidly devolves.
Dad's Army meets The Death of Stalin.
Feature Script Complete · 100% UK
Audio Drama
A sleepy English village and its painstakingly built miniature twin sit side by side, each hiding its own secrets. When the boundaries between the two worlds begin to blur, the residents of both must figure out which reality they actually belong to.
Six episodes · In development
A decommissioned intelligence handler learns that his wife's death in action was caused by a routine set of Standard Operating Procedures still in active use. Here the Veil is not a trick of the light but of sound: a false bearing, a voice on the wrong channel, and a man who follows it.
Le Carré without the glamour.
Single Play · Script Complete · Adapted from the feature
All scripts are lean, performance-driven, and shaped by professional quality management and risk assurance.
Full packages, including one-pagers, writer vision documents and visual treatments, are available upon request.
UK / Malta · Dual Citizen