BBC TV DRAMA FESTIVAL REPORT + SURVEY WINNER ANNOUNCED!
Hi There, I’ve been overwhelmed by your responses to my SURVEY last week – both in terms of quality and quantity. It has been enormously enjoyable reading through the 90+ pages of answers. What it did make me think is – there are so many good writers out there. The quality of writing was just […]
Screenwriting Survey & a PRIZE!
Hi There, This week I’m taking the easy option and passing the buck over to you the reader – with a survey of (I’m hoping) thought-provoking questions about your work as screenwriters, the highlights of which I can then pass on to you next week. THERE IS A PRIZE! TO THE PERSON WHO GIVES THE […]
US TV DRAMA SHOWRUNNERS
Hi There, I was alerted by a tweet from screenwriter Terry Cafolla (@terrycafolla) to this excellent 54 minute roundtable discussion featuring US TV drama writers \ show-runners. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/full-uncensored-drama-showrunner-emmy-561290 The cast: Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom) Alex Gansa, (Homeland) D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones), Beau Willimon (House of Cards), Kevin Williamson (The Following), Matthew Weiner (Mad Men). Various […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2013 \ TWO PHILS COURSE
Hi There, THE AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE TO WRITING – AND SELLING! – A GREAT SCREENPLAY Central London July 13th & 14th Phil Gladwin and I are delighted to announce that we have added TANYA TILLETT, literary agent from the Knight Hall agency, as special guest on this course. She will join BRADLEY QUIRK (creative executive at […]
SCREENWRITING TIPS
Hi There, This week, based on scripts I have read recently, a few random tips \ thoughts about screenwriting. DON’T KILL YOUR CHARACTERS IN RANDOM ACCIDENTS Despite the fact this obviously happens a lot in real life (apologies for the cheery opening!) there is usually something deeply dramatically unsatisfactory in a story when you’ve successfully […]
BBC DRAMA PRODUCER CERI MEYRICK : Father Brown, the series
Hi There, This week a GUEST BLOG from BBC drama producer CERI MEYRICK. CERI was producer of the first series of the BBC’s daytime series FATHER BROWN and talks her about how the first series got commissioned. Ceri has since gone onto her current job as series producer on Eastenders. But FATHER […]
TWO PHILS SCREENWRITING COURSE JULY 2013 + LAURENCE MARKS
Hi There, A reminder that we are taking bookings for our next Two Phils Weekend Screenwriting Course, with special guest BRADLEY QUIRK, in central London on the weekend of July 13-14 – your last chance to catch our course before late September. http://thetwophils.co.uk/seminars/ We have had some really nice testimonials from our March and May […]
A SCREENWRITER’S LIFE: WALDO SALT
Hi There, One of the names that came up at the recent London Sundance Film Festival screenwriting lab was WALDO SALT. The Sundance Film Festival has an annual screenwriting prize in his name. And his is a remarkable story – worthy of a feature film in itself. I’ve written \ compiled a brief account […]
NEW WRITING FESTIVALS
Hi There, For the last two weekends I have indulged myself by going to two FESTIVALS – on April 28th the Sundance London Film Festival and on May 5th the High Tide Theatre Festival. Both were great in their very different ways – Sundance was huge, moneyed and international, with celebs like Robert Redford in […]
Sundance UK Screenwriting Lab notes
‘It takes years of screenwriting to have an overnight success. It also takes talent, willpower, determination, grit and more than anything – it requires failure.’ This was the premise of the SCREENWRITING FLASH LAB at the London Sundance Film Festival which I attended last Saturday at the O2 Cineworld. Excitingly, for someone like me whose […]
