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Calling Filmmakers!
Thu, 21 Aug 2008
As The Times BFI London Film Festival team put the finishing touches to what we know will be another sparkling programme for October (with several exciting Script Factory events included), we're delighted to announce that the Festival's Think-Shoot-Distribute programme is already up and running.
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Excuse our appearance!
Tue, 12 Aug 2008
This week - especially on 12 & 13 August - we'll be doing some maintenance on our website and moving some items around. We thought it made sense to do it while you were all on the beach... There will inevitably be a little disruption while we do it and you may find that some links do not quite take you where you were expecting to go to! Forgive us - we're going as quick as we can to get it all ship shape and the results by the end of the week should make for a clearer, easier to navigate site.
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Make a movie in 48 hours
Wed, 6 Aug 2008
How would you like to see your own film shown at London’s Renoir Cinema for an audience of industry movers and shakers? Or how about the possibility of competing at Cannes? Well now’s your chance as the famous 48 Hour Film Challenge hits London this September.
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Script Factory writers scoop top US Screenwriting Prize
Wed, 16 Jul 2008
Excellent news just in from two writers who have been through The Script Factory mill over many years, taking part in our Writers Group, seeing success in several of our competitions, and attending numerous training and event programmes with us. This week, Hannah Robinson and Jonathan R Hall have been announced as winners of the grand prize at the American Screenwriters Association's International Screenplay Competition for their script for Fireworks.
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Want the chance to attend an exclusive Script Factory Reading?
Mon, 7 Jul 2008
We’re delighted to have been asked by Kay Mellor to stage a Performed Reading of her feature screenplay for A Passionate Woman. A personal story, inspired by the life of Kay's late mother, A Passionate Woman was originally a stage play that opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1992, and transferred to the West End in 1996, where it ran for a year to rave reviews followed by five national tours. Since 1996, the play has been performed on stage somewhere in the world every week. Kay, who has had enormous success as one of our best-loved TV screenwriters with credits including Band of Gold, Playing the Field, Fat Friends and many others, has always wanted to transfer the story to the big screen. Now we are about to help her do just that by testing the screenplay with the help of a top cast assembled by Casting Director Chloe Emmerson in front of an invited audience of funders, producers, broadcasters and industry bigwigs.
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Could you write the next Juno?
Mon, 23 Jun 2008
News of a new comp from the enterprising new production company RISE films, backed by the agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, together with Sight & Sound Magazine. The idea is simple: write a script this summer and then get it made.
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