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SCENE at The Times bfi London Film Festival 2005 - 27 Oct
Thu 27 October 2005
Nick Cave joins us to talk about his debut screenplay for The Proposition
Back for our favourite part of the year, The Script Factory joins forces with The Times bfi London Film Festival to stage a three day programme of live filmmaking events. SCENE is our annual celebration of filmmakers and filmmaking designed to inspire you to get your own film made. With screenwriting training and insider advice on the movie business alongside the chance to hear from some of the makers of this year’s most exciting films - whether you’re new to SCENE or have made it your Festival home in recent years - we’re sure there’s something here for you.
Click here for an-at-a-glance guide to our SCENE events (this file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) or scroll down to read today's programme below. Don’t forget to check back here regularly for updated details of events and speakers or send us an email to scene@scriptfactory.co.uk and we’ll make sure you’re emailed updates first.
SCENE runs from 27-29 October 2005 (plus a few extra pre & post sessions), and we're at the Curzon Soho in central London for most of it.
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The Programme for 27 October
Curzon Soho
10am – 1pm
Character Building
Day One of the screenwriters’ training programme that spans all three mornings of SCENE. Places are still available, for full details click here.
Curzon Soho
1 - 2.30pm (£4)
Exploit yourself: copyright and the steps to sell your work
A crack team of media lawyers from Bird & Bird explore the legal minefield involved in selling your rights. Can you copyright an idea? Can your project be given to another writer if you sign an option deal? How can you prove that your work has been stolen?
Curzon Soho
2.45 - 4pm (£6/£5)
The Kubrick Masterclass with Michael Caton Jones
Co-presented by the National Film & TV School
Michael Caton Jones' latest, the John Hurt starrer Shooting Dogs
With credits ranging from Memphis Belle to This Boy’s Life and from Scandal to The Jackal, director Michael Caton Jones has tackled adaptation, remake, and real life on screen; he has directed some of the leading Hollywood stars from De Niro to Gere to Poitier; and now, with Shooting Dogs, takes a political stance on a raw recent tragedy. We are privileged that Caton Jones joins us for SCENE to talk about the glamour and gore of making movies.
Courtesy of Metrodome
The Stanley Kubrick Masterclass series is presented by the National Film & Television School and The Script Factory, and supported by Skillset through the Film Skills Fund & Warner Bros Studios.
Curzon Soho
4.15 - 5.45pm (£6/£5)
My script & other media
Not every idea that a writer has is destined for the big screen. Some stories might be better told on stage, TV, or radio, and the more avenues you explore the more likely it is your project will be produced. Theatre, radio and TV experts join us to offer advice about getting your writing to an audience, whatever the form. Speakers include Caroline Raphael, Commissioning Ed, Drama & Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and Kate Rowland, Creative Director for BBC New Writing, Abigail Morris, Artistic Director of the Soho Theatre, and Eileen Quinn, Head of Drama for IWC, the merger between Ideal World and Wark Clements which is one of the largest independents currently working in the UK industry with commissions spanning drama, comedy, factual, and childrens' programming as well as features.
Curzon Soho
6 - 7.30pm (£8.50/£5.50)
Julian Fellowes tells the truth about Separate Lies
Julian Fellowes reveals the truth about directing Separate LiesLong celebrated as both actor and writer (having previously carried off the Oscar for Gosford Park), Julian Fellowes now sets his sights on directing with his debut Separate Lies. For SCENE he talks about the pleasure and pain of adapting and directing this mystery thriller about a happy marriage turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger.
Courtesy of 20th Century Fox
NFT, South Bank
6.30 - 7.45pm (£8.20)
An Enticing Proposition
Ardent fans of gravel-voiced musician Nick Cave 
Ray Winstone & Emily Watson in Cave & Hillcoat's The Propositionwill be delighted that his long-term creative collaboration with director John Hillcoat has resulted in him writing his first feature screenplay for The Proposition –
Nick Cave - musician turned screenwriter on stage for SCENE a glorious western set in the Australian Outback which is by turns both vicious and tender. On stage for SCENE both Cave and Hillcoat talk script to screen.
Courtesy of Tartan Films
Curzon Soho
8 - 9pm (£4)
The Smirnoff Experience Reel Talent Award Screening
Earlier this year we joined forces with The Hospital, London’s newest club/studio space, to launch a brand new shorts award. 
BAFTA nominee Heavy Metal DrummerProduced to a tight deadline and linked by a musical heartbeat, this is your chance to see the three winning films (which includes the latest project from the makers of Je t'aime John Wayne), and hear the filmmakers talk about their experience of development and production. 
THERE ARE MORE SCENE EVENTS ON:
Sunday 23 October - click here to read more
Friday 28 October - click here to read more
Saturday 29 October - click here to read more
Thursday 3 November - click here to read more
SCENE Venue details / How to book
*** Tickets are on sale now! ***
All sessions take place at
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1
For Tickets call 020 7734 2255 (box office open 10am-8pm)
or online at www.curzoncinemas.com
except for
An Enticing Proposition
(Thursday 27 October)
which is at
National Film Theatre
South Bank, Waterloo, London SE1
For Tickets call 020 7928 3232
Or online at www.lff.org.uk
and
Factotum
(Thursday 3 November)
which is at
The Gate Cinema
87 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11
For Tickets call 08707 550 063
Or online at www.picturehouses.co.uk
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The Stanley Kubrick Masterclass series is presented by the National Film & Television School and The Script Factory, and supported by Skillset through the Film Skills Fund & Warner Bros Studios.