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name: "Eirene Houston"
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# Eirene Houston

Writer. Born in Glasgow.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, independent.co.uk, femalefirst.co.uk, filmdoo.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *This Life* (1996), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-life.md)

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