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She Writes - shortlist selected!
After much agonising we have now selected a shortlist for our major programme She Writes - targeted directly at women screenwriters, co-presented together with our partners at Birds Eye View and supported by the Skillset Film Skills Fund. The shortlist has all been notified and everyone who applied should now have heard from us by email. If for some reason you have not yet heard from us you might check your spam folder - and if still no word, do please email us at SheWrites@scriptfactory.co.uk and we'll re-send. Thanks to everyone who applied - the response has been amazing! The programme caters for eight 'emerging' women writers who will join us over the course of 2010 - we'll announce the winners shortly.
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The White Ribbon
Are the questions more important than the answers? That’s what Trevor Johnston wonders as he furrows his brow and tries to unpick the workings of Michael Haneke’s latest celluloid conundrum, a story of dark deeds and mysterious motives set in rural Germany in the days before the Great War. Spoilers ahead – well, up to a point, as you’ll soon discover – while we untie…. The White Ribbon.
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Final word from our LFF blogger
Hurrah! It’s that time of year again. For most people October means talking about the X Factor, drinking red wine and moaning about the fact it is Autumn. However, for me, Katie Campbell, it means going to the cinema on your own at 9.30am on a Sunday. And occasionally standing in the same room as movie stars and generally being very smug about going to see a lot of films for free ages before anyone else. The London Film Festival is here and the nice Script Factory people have let me write a blog!
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Live Event
Wed, 10 February 2010
She, a Chinese
A preview plus conversation with Xiaolu Guo
An enigmatic young Chinese woman raised in a backwater, longs for a different life but her escape to London doesn't immediately bring her freedom.
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FILM TRAINING
Wed, 24 February 2010
Truth and Fiction
A one-day workshop which examines the problems of creating a screenplay from material that has been written for a different medium while uncovering the principles of good screenwriting that the process of adaptation can teach us.
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