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Who are our She Writers...?
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
Announced as the Birds Eye View Festival closed its doors for another year, we’re delighted finally to be able to unveil the participants who made it through the rigorous selection process to become part of our new flagship programme for women screenwriters, She Writes.
Prompted by the remarkable statistic that only 12% of British films are currently written by women, She Writes is aimed specifically at women screenwriters, and aims to change all that. Co-presented by our friends over at Birds Eye View, the programme is being supported by the Skillset Film Skills Fund and Scottish Screen and will run for the next year. The successful participants are a hugely varied group – they include editors, poets, development personnel and actors - and while She Writes is aimed at 'emerging writers', our 10 (8 individual writers and one co-writing team) are all already very much committed to their career as a screenwriter, and all come with impressive drama writing credits and hugely exciting ideas.
Click here to find out who made it through the selection process and to read about the projects that our She Writers will be working on with us this coming year.