Biography
Eirene Houston is a Scottish screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. She studied screenwriting at the National Film and Television School, where she also directed the short film A Stiff Drink (1996). Her early television work includes an episode of the BBC series This Life (1997).
Houston has written episodes of Always and Everyone (2001), Monarch of the Glen (2005) and EastEnders (2008–2009). Her feature screenplay Day of the Flowers (2013), set partly in Cuba, marked her first produced feature film. She has directed the documentary The Cuban Way and teaches at the International Film and Television School in Havana. She founded the Havana/Glasgow Film Festival and lives in Glasgow.
