For page and screen

Read. See and feel it works before it’s made.

14 original cinematic stories — adaptation-ready by design

[ Read-a-Film Prose and Screenplay Format ]

The space Read a Film occupies

Between prose and screen


A novel

can take you deep inside character, world, and voice.

A screenplay

shows how a story is built to play on screen.

A treatment

maps a film efficiently — but is not a complete reading experience.

Read a Film

brings cinematic momentum and visual clarity into a complete work of prose.

Read a Film stories move like films — tight, propulsive, no filler.

A complete experience of character, world, arc, and voice.

The film is unusually visible inside the prose.

Book first. Adaptation-ready by design.


Finish one in a sitting — and the whole story has played in your head.

And if it moves to screen, every story is also available as a Final Draft screenplay — the complete prose experience and the screen architecture, side by side.

Selected properties are available as both feature films and limited series.

Selected properties

Explore the Slate

Fully developed IP — ready for adaptation

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No. 01

Herforth & Jensen

FEATURE FILM / LIMITED SERIES · 3 × 50 MIN

A Fish Called Wanda directed by the Coen Brothers, set in contemporary Denmark.

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No. 09

The Bombshell Method

FEATURE FILM / LIMITED SERIES · 4 × 50 MIN

Jojo Rabbit meets La Grande Vadrouille — an American psychologist parachuted into occupied France to stop the V-bomb aimed at London.

About the creator

Bjarne O. Henriksen

Bjarne O. Henriksen writes tightly structured cinematic fiction for page and screen. His work — internationally funded and recognised at Monte Carlo and Berlin — spans historical, mythic, and political registers, with stories designed to stand on the page and travel naturally into film and television.


Silver Nymph, Monte Carlo

The Second Life of Eddie Holm

Golden Bear Nominee

Eye of the Eagle

European Script Fund Award

Herforth & Jensen

Invited Member

European Film Academy

Read more about Bjarne