Infinity Rooms, Yayoi Kusama

ELEANOR CAPALDI is a writer based in Glasgow.

Her work centres women and is committed to adding complexity and depth to lesbian representation on screen, as well as working with majority queer crews behind the camera. Some of her favourite films are by Clio Barnard, Catherine Hardwicke and Céline Sciamma (to name a few).

Feature film Project Trust has received early development from Screen Scotland and Less is More, as well as Stowe Story Labs. It is set in the world of recent short, Fizzing, a lesbian coming of age drama made through a charitable award from the Scottish International Education Trust. It has been nominated for the Special Recognition Award at Sunrise Film Festival (BIFA qualifying) and selected for Women X (BIFA qual), ForRainbow Brazil, Northampton, Saturn Returns and Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+. Short film Bookmarks, a Tiny Little Picture, was made through GMAC with Screen Scotland, nominated for the Community Award at the Iris Prize, longlisted for the 225 Excellence in Female Direction award, and selected by image+nation LGBT2SQ+ Montréal. Short film Glue was nominated for Best Scottish Short at SQIFF and for Best of British at Queer Vision Film Festival, and was selected for Roze FilmDagen.

TV Pilot My Best Friend (for 12+) made the top 10% of submissions to the Edinburgh TV Festival New Writers Collective 2026. Short play Public Display was nominated for the Framework Prize. Feature Receipts was longlisted for the Sundance Writers Lab.

A participant of:
Less is More Feature Development Lab by Le Groupe Ouest.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) Talent Lab
EIFF Script Starter
BFI Network Weekender, and,
GFF & ScreenSkills New Talent Mentorship Scheme, mentored by filmmaker Siri Rødnes

Certificates from:
NFTS Script Reading & Reporting (2026)
John Yorke Story for Screenwriting

Eleanor holds a PhD in audience engagement with art, considering issues of access, inclusion, the digital, and queering of art, alongside an MLitt in Film and Television Studies, both University of Glasgow, and a BA (Hons) Communication and Mass Media, Glasgow Caledonian University.