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TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE SCRIPT FACTORY MASTERCLASSES
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Mike Leigh in London for The Script Factory
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Click on the pink links below to read extracts from previous Masterclasses - or to download selected podcasts (and we'll be increasing the number of podcasts available during 2007).
Since January 2005, The Script Factory has been staging The Kubrick Masterclass Series in partnership with The National Film & Television School. The series is supported by Skillset through the Film Skills Fund, and Warner Bros. Studios.
KUBRICK MASTERCLASSES
Patrick Marber & Richard Eyre on Notes on A Scandal
Ken Adam & Christopher Frayling on set design
Deborah Moggach & Joe Wright on Pride & Prejudice
Jim Jarmusch on Broken Flowers
Wes Anderson makes a splash with The Life Aquatic
Mark Gatiss on The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse
Niels Mueller on Assassination of Richard Nixon
OTHER SCRIPT FACTORY MASTERCLASSES
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Mike White, on stage for The Script Factory's SCENE insiders in Edinburgh 07
Mike White on the movies that led to Year of the Dog
Nick Cave & John Hillcoat on The Proposition
Wim Wenders on a career making movies
Carlos Reygadas & Anapola Mushkadiz on Battle in Heaven
Guillermo Arriaga talks about writing 21 Grams
Gregg Araki & Scott Heim get under Mysterious Skin
Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner on creative producing
Danny Boyle, Alex Garland & Andrew MacDonald on 28 Days Later
Nick Broomfield talks to Jon Ronson about documentary narratives
Nigel Cole & Tim Firth on Calendar Girls
Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic with Steve ZissouBille Eltringham, Simon Beaufoy, Gary Winnick, Marc Evans in a digital narrative discussion
Sophie Fiennes, Laura Levine & Stephen Kijack on scripting documentaries
Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy talk about their collaborations on Best in Show and A Mighty Wind
Sir David Hare on 'Beginnings, Middles and Ends'
Olivia Hetreed & Tracy Chevalier talk about the adaptation of Girl With a Pearl Earring
Andrew Jarecki on Capturing the Friedmans
Mike Leigh talks through his take on screenwriting, and his Oscar nominated Vera Drake
Spike Lee & Ed Norton on 25th Hour
Joshua Marston & Anthony Minghella talk filmmaking and Maria Full of Grace
Fernando Meirelles' City of God
Fernando Mierelles on City of God
Roger Michell on Changing Lanes
Damien O'Donnell, Paul Fraser, & Richard Jobson on Heartlands
Sir Alan Parker on a career in pictures
Alexander Payne, Writer/director on Sideways
Alexander Payne joins co-writer Jim Taylor to talk about their Oscar-winning collaborations
Oliver Parker on The Importance of Being Earnest
Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen on Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Meera Syal & Paul Raphael on Anita & Me
Soap writers on writing for TV
Kureishi, Loader and Michell work their magic in VenusPODCASTS
You can see a podcast of one of our 2006 events - a preview of Roger Michell's Venus followed by a Q&A with its screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi and producer, Kevin Loader, by clicking here.
To read more filmmakers in conversation have a look at the Articles and Reviews in our extended NEWS section.