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with screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum, now in its fifteenth year, is a platform for new writing and a networking event. Three script extracts from yet-to-be-commissioned writers are selected by an industry panel from an open call out. Award-winning screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI read Modern Languages at Oxford University before training as a journalist with Reuters news agency. Juliette then worked as a script editor in Paris and London for Canal+ and Roman Polanski before turning to screenwriting full-time. Juliette credits include the original feature Calendar Girls, starring the Academy and BAFTA-winning Helen Mirren, which went on to win the Golden Wave Screenplay Award at Bordeaux Festival of Women in Film in 2004. Juliette recently wrote the adaptation of Vera Brittain’s First World War memoir, Testament of Youth and Love, Rosie. Juliette has a number of feature films in development including Notting Hill Carnival, The Brontes and The Ice Palace, whilst alsocontinuing to write the original BBC series Death Comes to Pemberley. BAFTA ROCLIFFE NEW WRITING FORUM WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2O14 // BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a writer, producer and founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forums. She is the author of Rocliffe Notes – A Professional Approach for Screenwriters & Writer- Directors. She has worked in film production for many years; forthcoming productions include Pressure with Danny Huston and Matthew Goode, Suite Francaise with Michelle Williams and Kristen Scott Thomas, and teen thriller Don’t Hang Up. She is a champion of new screen talent and has worked on many acclaimed directorial debuts including Rowan Athale’s The Rise and BAFTA nominee Tom Harper’s The Scouting Book for Boys, and has run talks and lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London, San Diego and Johannesburg. Thank you to the panel of industry experts: Alan McKenna Camille Gatin Celine Coulson Cynthia De Souza Dan Hubbard Emma Norton Georgina Carrigan James Floyd Jean Kitson Jon Croker Katie Goodson-Thomas Lauren Dark Len Rowles Mady Niel Max Pirkis Michael Berliner Susan Jacobson Tessa Inklaer Zam Salim BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca O'Brien, Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop and Dave Spikey. Moderator and Rocliffe Producer FARAH ABUSHWESHA [email protected] BAFTA Producer JULIA CARRUTHERS [email protected] Casting LAURA DICKENS [email protected] Artwork CARLO CRESCINI [email protected] Composers courtesy of CHANTELLE WOODNUT, Air Edel [email protected] Projection BAFTA PROJECTION TEAM [email protected] Find us on Facebook BAFTA BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum Follow us on Twitter @rocliffeforum @BAFTA Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies of their scripts or projects. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot provide contact details of attendees.
Transcript of BAFTA: Home of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - … · 2017. 11. 1. ·...
with screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI
The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum, now in its fifteenth year, is a platform for new writing and a networking event. Three script extracts from yet-to-be-commissioned writers are selected by an industry panel from an open call out.
Award-winning screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI read Modern Languages at Oxford University before training as a journalist with Reuters news agency. Juliette then worked as a script
editor in Paris and London for Canal+ and Roman Polanski before turning to screenwriting full-time. Juliette credits include the original feature Calendar Girls, starring the Academy and BAFTA-winning Helen Mirren, which went on to win the Golden Wave Screenplay Award at Bordeaux Festival of Women in Film in 2004. Juliette recently wrote the adaptation of Vera Brittain’s First World War memoir, Testament of Youth and Love, Rosie. Juliette has a number of feature films in development including Notting Hill Carnival, The Brontes and The Ice Palace, whilst alsocontinuing to write the original BBC series Death Comes to Pemberley.
BAFTA ROCLIFFENEW WRITING FORUM
WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2O14 // BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN
FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a writer, producer and founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forums. She is the author of Rocliffe Notes – A
Professional Approach for Screenwriters & Writer-Directors. She has worked in film production for many years; forthcoming productions include Pressure with Danny Huston and Matthew Goode, Suite Francaise with Michelle Williams and Kristen Scott Thomas, and teen thriller Don’t Hang Up. She is a champion of new screen talent and has worked on many acclaimed directorial debuts including Rowan Athale’s The Rise and BAFTA nominee Tom Harper’s The Scouting Book for Boys, and has run talks and lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London, San Diego and Johannesburg.
Thank you to the panel of industry experts: Alan McKennaCamille GatinCeline CoulsonCynthia De SouzaDan HubbardEmma Norton Georgina CarriganJames FloydJean KitsonJon CrokerKatie Goodson-ThomasLauren DarkLen RowlesMady NielMax PirkisMichael BerlinerSusan JacobsonTessa InklaerZam Salim
BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca O'Brien, Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop and Dave Spikey.
Moderator and Rocliffe ProducerFARAH [email protected]
BAFTA ProducerJULIA [email protected]
CastingLAURA [email protected]
ArtworkCARLO [email protected]
Composers courtesy ofCHANTELLE WOODNUT, Air [email protected]
ProjectionBAFTA PROJECTION [email protected]
Find us on Facebook BAFTA BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum
Follow us on Twitter @rocliffeforum @BAFTA
Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org
BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies of their scripts or projects. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot provide contact details of attendees.
ANNIEÕS GOT BODY ISSUESby NAT [email protected]
Directed by SAM [email protected]
Music by GRANT OLDING c/o Air Edel
The morning after a house party Annie wakes up with a hangover, no memory of the night before and, on her sofa, the corpse of the girl who stole her boyfriend.
Nat Luurtsema is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, stand-up, sketch writer and author. Writer of Island Queen, BAFTA-nominated in 2014, Best Comedy: European Independent Film Festival, and Official Selection: London Short Film Festival 2013. “My favourite… an excellent, laidback piece” – Peter Bradshaw’s BAFTA round-up, The Guardian. Star of sketch group Jigsaw (two Radio 4 series, three sell-out Edinburgh runs). “Full-pelt sketch comedy from performers who radiate enjoyment and ease with a crowd” – Brian Logan, The Guardian. Nat’s memoir, Cuckoo In The Nest (Hodder and Stoughton) was Sunday Express Book Of The Year.
CAST
AnnieSIRINE SABAScott Marshall Partners, 020 7637 4623
GwynethLU CORFIELDBelinda Wright, CDA, 020 7397 2749
Inspector MarinAMERJIT DEUUnited Agents, 020 3214 0800
NarratorJEMMA CHURCHILLRBM, 020 7976 6021
THE WATERÕS DEEPby CAROLINE [email protected]
Directed by SUSAN [email protected]
Music by DR STEPHEN BAYSTED c/o Air Edel
A vulnerable young mother must appease the spirit of the man she killed in order to save her daughter.
Caroline Carver started writing short films and wrote and produced the film You, Me and Captain Longbridge, which went on to be officially selected for twelve festivals and won three. She recently won a competition for a short film made by Spidervision productions, based on India’s involvement in World War 1.
CAST
BellaJESSICA CLAIRE Nancy Hudson Associates, 020 7499 5548
GrammaCAROLINE WILDI RKA Talent, 020 7287 6934
Archie HONOR KNEAFSEYA & J Artists, 020 8342 0542
DanielABUBAKAR SALIM Waring & McKenna, 020 7836 9222
NarratorROBYN HOEDEMAKERJane Lehrer Associates, 020 7435 9118
THE POINT OF YOUby KITTY [email protected]
Directed by ALEXANDRA [email protected]
Music by MARCOS DÕCRUZE c/o Air Edel
A forensic observation of a wedding that goes horribly wrong, witnessed through the different but connected perspectives of the bride, her sister and their mother.
Kitty Percy is a recent graduate of the University of the Arts London Screenwriting MA. In recent years she has worked as a freelance writer on magazines and in advertising. Her broadcast credits include two short films and a radio play. Before this she was a set dresser for films and TV commercials. Kitty’s father worked in animation, so the language of film and its power as a storytelling medium has always been present in her life.
CAST
LizJANE LEANEYEmma Engers Associates, 020 7278 9980
SteveADAM BURTONKatie Threlfall Associates, 020 8879 0493
BeckyHOLLY AUGUSTINEMichael Ford, DAA, 020 7255 6123
EmJOANNE KINGSally Hope Associates, 020 7613 5353
NarratorSAMMY KISSINStanton Davidson Associates, 020 7581 3388
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