Industry News
BBC Films' Made in Dagenham
Development Scheme Deadline one month away!
Thu, 29 Jul 2010
Would you be interested in getting a year-long support programme for you and your screenplay? Add in a £1,000 Bursary? How about a guaranteed meeting with BBC Films at the end of the year? Oh - and would you like to have a private lunch with screenwriter Peter Morgan along the way? Yes? Then The Script Factory's Development Scheme may well be just what you're looking for.
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Articles
We always knew Bigelow's Hurt Locker would do it!
We couldn't have been more thrilled to see Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s The Hurt Locker clean up at the Oscars on Sunday night as they did at the BAFTAs last month. As a result of some string-pulling from distributor’s Optimum, The Script Factory was delighted to stage a preview of the film late last summer together with on-stage conversation with Bigelow and Boal. As the film's awards collection threatens to burst at the seams, you can read extracts of our illuminating conversation here.
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Reviews
Death At A Funeral
Any screenwriter will be delighted that their work’s getting filmed, but Dean Craig found himself in an almost surreal situation when his comedy Death at a Funeral was remade in Hollywood only a couple of years after the original British version hit the screens. Since the essential structure of the story remained unchanged in the meantime, this is clearly a script with pointers to offer anyone approaching their own comedy writing. Spoilers ahead as our reviewer Trevor Johnston dons black tie to investigate how you turn mourning into laughter.
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