Shefali Malhoutra

Executive Producer / Development Producer

Agent: Julie Press - julie@kitsonpress.co.uk

Shefali is an experienced drama executive with a global outlook. Her credits include in-house roles for broadcasters as well as independent production companies and as a script executive on feature films. With a notable track record of content creation, Shefali has a passion for working with writers and emerging talent. As an executive producer, producer, development producer and script consultant, she brings a wide set of skills and talent connections. Shefali has a degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge University.

Work

Experience

BBC Studios (2023)

Development Producer, Silent Witness

Working with EP on creative vision for the show’s move to Birmingham in 2024, including expanding its team of core writers.

Projector Pictures (2023)

Executive Producer, Development
Sourcing original ideas and IP for the international and UK Market for this UK production company. Projector have had recent successes with their limited series
The Holiday and The Catch for Channel 5.

Remit to expand the range and scale of drama projects for the company and to focus on returnable as well as limited series.

Black Box Multi Media (2020-2023)

Development Producer
Remit to work across English-language slate of projects for this international production company (UK-Italy-Spain).

Greenlit projects include:

This Time Next Year: Writer Sophie Cousens from her novel of the same name. Director Nick Moore.
Executive Producer romantic-comedy feature film for SVOD. Co-production with Night Train Media. in production.

The Ex-Wife: Writer Catherine Steadman from the novel by Jess Ryder. Director Brian O’Malley. Co-pro with Clapperboard Studios.
Script Producer 4 x 45′ limited psychological thriller series for Paramount +. Launched Paramount + October 2022.

The Castaways: Showrunner Ben Harris from the hit novel by Lucy Clarke. 5 x 45’ for Paramount +. Co-pro Clapperboard Studios.
In pre-production. Sourced novel.

Freelance (2018-2020)

Development Producer & Script Producer
Worked on a portfolio of television projects that includes ‘Christie & Sayers’ by Kate O’Riordan original returnable crime series (8 x 60), ‘Uncle Silas’ by Joe Ahearne (3 x 60 novel adaptation) and ‘Arctic Summer’ by Richard Mason (3 x 60 adaptation) from novel by Booker prize winning author Damon Galgut.

Script Producer on feature films on project by project basis.

The Imaginarium Studios (2015-2017)

Executive Producer
Created a TV slate for the UK and international market in JV with Red Arrow, sourcing IP from fiction and non-fiction as well original ideas for returnable and limited series. Writers included Julie Rutterford, Tony Jordan, Nina Raine, Ian Rashid, Deborah Haywood, Joseph Wilde, Rae Brunton.

Spaceship (2015)

iFeatures 2

Script Editor
Feature Film.
Writer/director: Alexander Taylor
Cinema release May 2017

Shakespeare India (2015)

Film London / British Council

Script Mentor
Competitive scheme to select a contemporary Shakespeare interpretation by British Asian and Indian filmmakers to mark 400 years since the death of Shakespeare. Winner: ‘The Hungry’ Writer director Bornila Chatterjee. Premiered at TIFF 2017

HBO Europe (2012-2014)

Script Consultant : Original Drama Production
Series and mini-series development for Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic and Poland.

Umbre (Shadows) (2014-2015)

HBO Romania

Script Consultant
8 x 45’ drama set in Bucharest about a family man with a secret criminal life.
Adapted from the Australian drama SMALL TIME GANGSTER.
Writer: Bogdan Mirica

Wataha (The Border)

HBO Poland / Walter Presents Channel 4

Script Consultant
6 x 45’ original thriller series about a squad of Polish Border Guards at the Polish/Ukrainian border.
Writer: Julie Rutterford/Artur Kowalewski.

Tarsas Jatek (Shall We Kiss) Season Two (2013)

HBO Hungary

Script Consultant
13 x 30’ ensemble romantic comedy set in Budapest. Season one adapted from an Israeli format. Season Two original scripts.
Lead writer: Andrea Vesjits

iFeatures / South West Screen (2009-2010)

Development Executive
Competitive scheme to produce three micro budget feature films set in Bristol, from pitch, through treatment, to script. Films produced from over 500 entries.

Flying Blind (2012)

iFeatures / South West Screen

Development Executive
Feature film
Writer Caroline Harrington
Director Kasia Klimkiewicz

In The Dark Half (2011)

iFeatures / South West Screen

Development Executive
Feature film
Writer: Lucy Catherine
Director Alastair Siddons

Eight Minutes Idle (2011)

iFeatures / South West Screen

Development Executive
Feature film
Writers: Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe Director: Mark Simon Hewis

The Lady (2011)

Left Bank Pictures / Europacorp

Development Producer
Feature film
Writer:Rebecca Frayn
Director: Luc Besson
Producer: Andy Harries/Virginie Silla
Starring Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis

BBC Worldwide, Mumbai, India (2008)

Consultant, Drama
Development of BBC drama formats for Indian broadcasters

ITV Drama and Comedy (2000-2007)

Script Executive 2000 – 2001
Executive Producer 2006 – 2007
Producer 2004 – 2006
Head of Development 2001 – 2004

Perfect Parents

ITV1

Executive Producer
1 x 120
Writer/Director: Joe Ahearne
Producer: Nicole Cauverien
Cast: Christopher Ecclestone, Susannah Harker, Lesley Manville, David Warner

What We Did on Our Holiday

ITV1

Executive Producer
1 x 120
Novel adaptation by Andy Watts
Director: Jeremy Webb
Producer: Chris Carey
Cast: Shane Richie, Pauline Collins, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Angeline Ball
Filmed entirely on location in Malta

Losing Gemma

ITV1

Producer
2 x 90
Novel adaptation by Robert Murphy
Director: Maurice Phillips
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Alice Eve, Jonas Armstrong, Jason Flemyng, Rachel Leskovac
Filmed entirely on location in India

The Kindness of Strangers

ITV1

Producer
2 X 90
Writer: Kate O’Riordan
Director: Tony Smith
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Julie Graham, Hermione Norris, Neil Pearson

Bloodlines

ITV1

Producer
2 x 90
Writer: Mike Cullen
Director: Philip Martin
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Emma Pierson, Max Beesley, Kieran O’Brien, Kevin McNally

The Walk

ITV1

Development Executive
1 x 120
Writer: Michael Chaplin
Director: Mark Brozel
Producer: David Boulter
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Nicola Stephenson, Philip Glenister
Filmed entirely on location in Morocco

Eleventh Hour (Episode 1)

ITV1

Development Producer
4 x 90
Writer: Stephen Gallagher
Director: Terry McDonough
Producer: Stephen Smallwood
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen
Remade by Jerry Bruckheimer for NBC USA starring Rufus Sewell, 13 episodes

Donovan

ITV1

Assistant Producer
2 x 90
Writer: Mike Cullen
Director: Simon Delaney
Producer: Spencer Campbell
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Tom Conti, Samantha Bond

Lenny Blue

ITV1

Assistant Producer
2 x 90
Writer: Stephen Butchard
Director: Andy Wilson
Producer: David Boulter
Executive Producer: Andy Harries
Cast: Ray Winstone, Charlie Creed Miles

The Bill (1998-2000)

Pearson Television / ITV1

Script Editor
Hour long eight pm police procedural series on ITV1