About Us

Mouse Chased Cat Productions Ltd is an award-winning company that is dedicated to great storytelling. We believe that the creative experience is of paramount importance – from the team that brings the story to life, right through to the finished film.

The company was set up in 2016 to showcase a series of short films: Finding Hope, Tides, and The Adventurer’s Diary. All three have won numerous awards and nominations.


Rather than a large 'fixed' team, Mouse Chased Cat Productions Ltd works with a variety of skilled and independent professionals. This enables us to keep creativity at our core, while ensuring that the directors and producers who join our projects are free to bring in skilled professionals of their choice as well. Please see the pages on our individual projects for information on the great talent we work with.

MCC Productions Ltd also brings together talented newcomers with industry veterans, to create visually compelling, emotionally moving and dramatic storytelling.

Jean Maye
Company Director, Producer & Screenwriter

Jean comes from a background in Local Authority social care. Past roles have also included work in prisons, hospices, fostering, adoption and child protection. A published and best-selling author in this field, her creative writing skills are also supported by a varied range of qualifications including a summer course at Oxford University in ‘Writing for Radio’, a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at Kingston University in 2012 and a Producers Foundation Certificate, presented by Raindance in 2014.

She also frequently attends screenwriting seminars and workshops and has used experienced script editors in the industry such as Linda Seger and Yvonne Grace, and in her spare time supports prisoners on Death Row in Texas.

On occasions she works as an independent story development consultant to help new writers with their script. To find out more about this please go to www.jeanmayeauthor.com and visit her story developer/consultant page.

Screenwriting credits: 

Finding Hope (March 2017)
Shadows' End Film Trailer (Feature in progress)
Tides (November 2017)
The Adventurer's Diary (2019)
Corona Connections: Episode Two - Plenty of Fish (2020)


Screenwriting awards:

CKFQueen PalmCKFAustin After Dark Film Festival 2019Script SummitIndependent Horror Movie Awards 2019OnirosUpstate NYQueen PalmQueen Palm Bronze

Shadows’ End
Psychological Thriller/Horror - Feature

  • Winner – Silver Award - Queen Palm International Screenwriting Competition/Festival, Best Dialogue 2019
  • Semi-Finalist – 24th Annual Fade-In Screenwriting Awards, Los Angeles. (First ten pages) 2018
  • Selected – CKF – Selected but I won with another script. April 2019
  • Selected – Austin After Dark Film Festival 2019

LAYLA
Horror – Feature

  • Winner – Script Summit – Best Horror screenplay concept – Sept 2020
  • Winner / 3rd Place – Script Summit – Best Horror feature script – Sept 2020
  • Finalist – Independent Horror Movie Awards – 2019
  • Honourable Winner – Horror Hotel International Film & Screenwriting Competition – Won Best Script 2019
  • Finalist – Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest – Made the final ten best feature screenplay -2019
  • Preliminary Finalist – Creative World Awards. Best script 2019

THE BENCH
Fantasy horror – Short

  • Gold Award Winner – Third Quarter – Best Short Script – Queen Palm Festival, June 2020
  • Gold Award Winner – Third Quarter – Best Dialogue – Queen Palm Festival, June 2020
  • Selected – Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards, June 2020
  • Selected – Top Indie Awards, June 2020
  • Finalist – Hollywood Just 4 Shorts Film & Screenplay Awards, April 2020
  • Semi-finalist – Austin After dark Film Festival. Best script, April 2020
  • Semi-finalist – Austin After dark Film Festival. Best script, April 2020 (2nd Category)
  • Winner – CKF International Film Festival. Best screenwriter, March 2020
  • Selected – TMFF The Monthly Film Festival, Feb 2020

PAPER MEMORIES
Drama – Short

  • Semi-Finalist – Hollywood screenings 2020
  • Florence International Film Awards 2019
  • Winner – CKF International Film Festival. Best screenwriter 2019
  • Nominated – The Monkey Bread Tree Film festival 2019

THE PUMPKIN ROOM
Horror – Short

  • Finalist – 13Horror.com, August 2020
  • Selected – Underground Indie Film & Screenplay Festival, June 2020
  • Nomination – Bloodstained Film Festival, 2019
  • Winner (Silver) – Queen Palm Film Festival. Best Dialogue 2019
  • Winner (Bronze) – Queen Palm Film Festival. Best script 2019
  • Semi-Finalist – Zed Fest 2020
  • Nominated – Independent Horror Movie Awards. Best Short Script
  • Winner – The Horror Hotel – Best script 2019
  • Finalist – Upstate New York Horror Film Festival 2019
  • Nominee – Diabolical Horror Movie Awards – Best short script 2019

UNDISCOVERED
Drama – Short

  • Winner – CKF International Film Festival – Best Screenwriter of the month 2019
  • Winner – Festigious International Film & Screenwriting Festival – Best short script 2018
  • Selected – TMFF – The Monthly Film Festival. Best script nomination August 2019
  • Semi-Finalist – Creative World Awards – Best Script 2019
  • Selected – Script Summit – Best script 2019

THE ADVENTURER’S DIARY
Fantasy Drama – Short

  • Semi-Finalist – Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition 2018
  • Quarter-Finalist – Creative Worlds Awards – Best script 2018
  • Finalist – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Finalist 2018
  • Quarter-Finalist – Screencraft Film Fund screenwriting competition 2018
  • Second Rounder (Finalist) – Austin International Film Screenwriting Festival 2017, out of 9,487 scripts

FINDING HOPE
Short screenplay – Drama

  • Winner – The One Stop International Film Festival 2017
  • Best Written & Produced – Oniros Film Awards April 2018

SHORT FILM AWARDS PRODUCED AND WRITTEN BY JEAN MAYE


THE ADVENTURERS DIARY
Fantasy drama (15 Mins) Screenwriter & Producer (Directed by Ben Wicks)

  • Selected – Vegas Movie Awards, June 2020
  • Gold Awards, Third Quarter, Honourable Mention, Queen Palm, June 2020
  • Winner – New York Film Awards.  Best Picture 2020
  • Winner – New York Film Awards.  Best Narrative Film 2020
  • Winner – New York Film Awards.  Best Fantasy Film 2020
  • Winner – New York Film Awards.  Best Actress, Patricia Loveland 2020
  • Winner – Filmcon Awards.  Best fantasy Film 2020
  • Winner – Filmcon. Best Director 2020
  • Winner – CKF. Best Mini Short under 15 mins 2020
  • Winner – CKF.  Best Actress– Patricia Loveland 2020
  • Winner – Los Angeles Film Awards. Best Fantasy film 2020
  • Winner – TMFF.  Best Short Film Jan 2020
  • Winner – Top Shorts Film Festival.  Best Fantasy Film 2020
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards.  Best short film 2019
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards. Best Director 2019
  • Winner – Latitude Film Awards. Best Short Film 2019
  • Winner – Florence Film Awards.  Best VXF Alex England 2019
  • Winner – Florence Film Awards. Best Actress Patricia Loveland 2019
  • Nominated – Gold Movie Awards. Best Short Film 2019
  • Nominated – Marina Del Ray Film Festival – Best short film 18/10/19
  • Nominated & Screened – London International Film festival 4/9/19
  • Nominated – Georgia Film Festival 17/10/19

TIDES
Drama (5 mins) Screenwriter & Producer. (Directed by Ben Wicks)
This film is the Prequel to The Adventurers Diary.
(Available to watch on my website: www.mousechasedcat.com)

  • Winner – CKF International Film Festival – Best Actress 2018 
  • Winner – CKF International Film Festival – Best Film 2018
  • Winner – Out of the Can Film Festival – Best Producer 2018
  • Finalist – Out of the Can Film Festival – Best Film 2018
  • Nominated – Out of the Can Film Festival – Best Director, Ben Wicks 2018
  • Official Selection – Gold Movie Awards – Best Short Film 2019
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards – Best Film under 5 minutes 2018
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards – Best Actress – Patricia Loveland 2018
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards – Best Child Actress – Abigail Scott 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Awards – Best Producer – Jean Maye 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Awards – Best Director – Ben Wicks 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Awards – Best Cinematography – Jan Solberg 2018
  • Nominated & official selection - London Rolling Film Festival – screened at the Phoenix Club, 27/5/18
  • Winner Festigious Los Angeles International Film Festival – Best Narrative Film – Jean Maye & Ben Wicks
  • Winner – Festigious Los Angeles International Film Festival – Best Score – Composer Aaron Latina 2018
  • Gold Winner – Latitude Film Awards- Best Narrative Fiction 2018
  • Honourable Mention – Los Angeles Film Awards Indie Filmmaker - Ben Wicks & Jean Maye 2018
  • Official selection – Silicon Beach Film Festival  2018
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards – Best Film under 5 minutes 2018
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards – Best Actress – Patricia Loveland 2018
  • Winner – Oniros Film Awards – Best Child Actress – Abigail Scott 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Awards – Best Producer – Jean Maye 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Awards – Best Director – Ben Wicks 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Awards – Best Cinematography – Jan Solberg 2018
  • Official Selection - Redline International Film Festival 2018
  • Nominated – Culver City – Best short film 2018
  • Nominated – 48 Independent Short Film Festival 2018

 

FINDING HOPE
 Drama 13.5 mins Screenwriter & Producer. Directed by Krysten Resnick. Now endorsed by the Child Bereavement Trust. (Available to watch on my website: www.mousechasedcat.com). 

  • Nominated – Oregon Short Film Festival – Jan 2019
  • Winner – Los Angeles Film Festival. Best Indie Film 2018
  • Winner – Los Angeles Film Festival. Most Inspiring Woman in Film 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Festival.  Best Producer 2018
  • Finalist – Oniros Film Festival. Best Indie Short Film 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – Marina Rey Film Festival, California. Best film 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – Hollywood Screenings. Best Short Drama March 2018
  • Winner – W.I.N.D. Best Short Film 2018
  • Winner – W.I.N.D. Rising Star Producer 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – W.I.N.D. Best Short Script 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – W.I.N.D.  Best Director Krysten Resnick 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – W.I.N.D Best Actress, Crystal Leaity 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – W.I.N.D.  Best supporting actor, Kevin Leslie 2018
  • Semi-Finalist – W.I.N.D. Best Composer, Aaron Latina 2018
  • Winner – Festigious International Film Festival. Best Director 2018
  • Winner – Festigious International Film Festival. Best Cinematographer 2018
  • Official Selection – Festigious Los Angeles International Film Festival. Best Film & Actor 2017
  • Semi-Finalist – London International Story First Film Festival. Best Drama 2017.
  • Official Selection Cardiff International Film Festival 2017
  • Winner – International Women's Film Festival. Best Short Film 2017
  • Winner – Open World Toronto Film Festival.  Best Sound and Music 2018
  • Official Selection – Worldwide Women's Film Festival 2018
  • Winner – Top Shorts. Best Narrative Fiction 2018
  • Winner – Top Shorts. Best Song produced by Jean Maye. Written & performed by Dwaine Claridge 2018
  • Official Selection – Lift-Off Global Network, Manchester 2018
  • Official Selection – Silicon Beach Film Festival. Best Film 2018.
  • Selected – Milledgeville- Eatonton Film Festival – 2018
  • Selected – Oregon Short Film Festival. Best drama short 2018
  • Selected – Winchester Short Film Festival. Best Short 2018

Producer credits:

TIDES

  • Out of the Can Film Festival (2018) – Best Producer
  • Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival (2019) – Best Producer
  • Hollywood Moving Pictures Film Festival (November 2018) – Best Producer
  • Out of the Can Film Festival (2018) – Best Producer
  • BREAK OUT SHORTS (March 2019) – Semi-finalist
  • Oniros Film Awards (7th May 2018) – Best Written & Produced Finalist

Finding Hope

  • W.I.N.D.: Best Rising Star Producer (2017)

Shadows’ End Film Trailer (2014)

The Adventurer's Diary (2018-19)

 

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