Abbey Monteiro

Abbey Monteiro is a young British Indian Writer/ Director. Her debut narrative short film “Bad Indian – the villain origin story” is a comedy drama made through the Prime Video x NFTS Director’s scheme. It’s a refreshing, cheeky, and heartwarming coming of age comedy-drama about Abbey, a young woman from Croydon. When Abbey lies to her strict Catholic Indian mother about her rejection from Cambridge University her only method of escapism is to have one memorable night at the infamous Tiger Croydon’s A-Level Results Party. But what happens when the truth she’s been running from violently slaps her in the face? Starring Leah Vanmali and Nina Wadia, it’s an outstanding debut short, with a powerful sense of voice and vision. Abbey is now developing Bad Indian into a pilot script.

By day she works in the advertising world as a Creative – Art Director where she has worked with Nike, Three, F1, Sainsbury’s, Apple and Coca-Cola. She was involved in the “Open that Coca – Cola” campaign, which featured bespoke music from the Grammy award winning talent Tyler the Creator.