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An occasional series of articles of interest to screenwriters and people who work with stories, from directors to producers and developers.
In addition to the articles below, you can also click here to read extracts from previous Script Factory Masterclasses, and find out what is on this month for filmmakers and developers.
Script Writing Training – what is it good for?
Mon, 21 Jul 2008
Script Factory co-director Lucy Scher argues that Screenwriting Training that prioritises individual creativity and doesn’t focus on craft is likely to be popular - but isn’t likely to produce good screenwriters.
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Head for BRITDOC 08
Wed, 16 Jul 2008
The place to come and be inspired by the best documentary filmmaking in the world and to do business with all the key international funders and distributors, it’s not too late to get your pass for BRITDOC 08.
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WRITERS COME CLEAN ABOUT WORKING ON SOAPS
Thu, 6 Mar 2008
We've just been in Leeds for our second TV Forum - this time TV Forum North - where a group of over 100 new TV writers were entertained by an overview of the industry. Meanwhile we're thinking back to the first Forum where we bought together three of the top UK soap writers, Tony McHale, Bill Lyons and Rob Gittins, to share their experience and talk about the highs, as well as the lows, of this particular writing discipline.
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Art & fashion project seaching for screenplays
Tue, 3 Jul 2007
A unique chance for budding writers to influence the narrative of a high-end fashion shoot which will create a catalogue and film for Yves Saint Laurent’s forthcoming ‘Edition 24’ collection. Nick Knight's art and fashion broadcasting website, SHOWstudio, is inviting submissions for a twenty-four-scene screenplay that will form the basis of a twenty-four hour, live fashion broadcast over the night of 14 July, during which Knight and Head Designer at YSL, Stefano Pilati, will transform your ideas into image.
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Notes on a screenplay
Tue, 15 May 2007
Short-changed at the Oscars this year, Notes on Scandal has a note-perfect screenplay from Patrick Marber. Earlier this year, The Script Factory together with our partners at the NFTS, held a masterclass with Marber and director Richard Eyre, where they explained the challenge of adapting a classic novel.
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A Script Factory filmmaker heads stateside
Thu, 14 Sep 2006
We’ve long been fans of filmmakers Hannah Robinson (a member of our Writers’ Group back in 2003), and Jonathan Hall (who took a feature project through our Writers’ Passage programme the same year), and we were delighted to see them collaborating to make a new short In The Mood. Winning screening slots in both Palm Springs and Los Angeles short festivals this month, Hannah is now in sunny California on a mission to try her luck in Hollywood – and is sending us this blog to let us know how she gets on...
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