Line Langebek is a Danish-born screenwriter, living in London, who has worked as a commissioned writer on numerous shorts and feature films in the UK, US, France, Denmark, and Norway. Her past screen credits include the feature film I’LL COME RUNNING, the 30-min drama SINK OR SWIM for Channel 4, the Albanian-set documentary DUAM DRÏTE: WE WANT LIGHT for French television, EVERGREEN, ANONYMOUS as well as FIELD STORY for BFI’s big budget Shorts Scheme. She was the head writer and wrote a dozen episodes for the children’s comedy TV-series ROYALS NEXT DOOR.
In 2015, she co-founded Raising Films together with a small group of producers, writers and directors, to campaign for better working conditions in the film and TV industry for parents and carers. She is a member of the WGGB’s Film Committee and is part of The Dissonant Futures Collective, supported by Arts Council England.
In 2023/2024, she has also been funded by ACE to work on a novel.
Line is an alumnus of the Guiding Lights programme (mentor Frank Cottrell-Boyce), as well as the Berlinale Talent Campus, and she is currently working on feature film and TV commissions in the UK and Denmark. Her most recent feature film, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (co-written with director Magnus von Horn) was in Official Competition in Cannes 2024 and had its North American premiere at TIFF24 too.
