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View the Awards Programme THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS PROGRAMME THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS 11 ST ANDREWS PLACE, REGENT’S PARK, LONDON NW1 4LE MONDAY 23 JANUARY 2017 The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain is a trade union registered at 134 Tooley Street, London SE1 2TU @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards PRESIDENT’S WELCOME THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS obert Taylor Photography Welcome to the Writers’ R Guild Awards 2017. Photo: Congratulations to all the writers in the This evening’s celebration is only possible room and especially to this evening’s because of the wonderful support and nominees. You are the best. I hope you generosity of organisations and companies, knew that already but now it’s official. which also do great work for and with writers However once you have recovered from all year round. Our lead sponsor ALCS, eOne this evening of all too rare praise and who also sponsored the reception you have LEAD SPONSOR attention please feel free to get back just enjoyed, BBC Drama and BBC Worldwide, to circling the global car crash like the Company Pictures, Tiger Aspect and vultures you are and picking out the best Nick Hern Books. If you meet a sponsor bits to feed your creative guts. We need tonight please thank them, hug them, someone to make sense of it all, show us appreciate them as best you can. the human cost or point out the funny CHAMPAGNE side. We choose you. Have a great evening. RECEPTION SPONSOR Olivia Hetreed WGGB President THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS HIST ORY OF THE AWARDS Since they were established in 1961, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards have been honouring the cream of British writers and writing. The Awards also recognise the importance of our work in preserving freedom of speech, and championing writing as an essential part of our national and international culture. Previous winners include: Danny Boyle Jimmy McGovern Alan Bennett Richard Curtis Lynda La Plante James Corden Jo Brand Anthony Minghella Steve McQueen Matthew Vaughn Roddy Doyle Kay Mellor Dawn French Jennifer Saunders Russell T. Davies THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS PROGRAMME MEERA SYAL OF EVENTS HOST 6.30pm Drinks reception Meera is a writer and performer best known Meera’s novel Anita and Me is now studied 7.00pm Welcome by WGGB President Olivia Hetreed for her work on the award-winning Goodness as part of the National Curriculum and was Gracious Me, the film Bhaji on the Beach and adapted first as a film and, more recently, the musical Bombay Dreams. for the stage. Her third novel, The House of Hidden Mothers, was published by Transworld Meera co-created the story for a new THE WGGB 2017 AWARDS CEREMONY Publishers on 4 June 2015. Drama Republic three-part drama Mrs Roy with Smita Bhide have optioned the TV rights. Best Radio Comedy for BBC One. She has written Heal Me for Touchpaper/BBC and Generation Next for the Meera Syal is represented by Best Long Running TV Series National Theatre’s Connections 2012 season. Rochelle Stevens. Best Writing in a Video Game She contributed and performed new material for a Goodness Gracious Me reunion special Best Children’s TV Episode for BBC Two’s 50th anniversary. Meera Best Long Form TV Drama co-created, wrote and acted in five series of the crossover hit for BBC Radio 4 and Best First Screenplay BBC Two. Remembering WGGB members Best Radio Drama Best Play for Young Audiences Best Play Best Screenplay Best TV Situation Comedy Best Short Form TV Drama Outstanding Contribution to Writing 9.00pm Celebration drinks and canapés 11.00pm Bar close & carriages THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS ABOUT WGGB The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) is the TUC-affiliated trade union representing professional writers in TV, film, theatre, radio, books, poetry, animation WGGB supported London Writers’ Week this year with panels on writing for musicals and fact-based theatre and videogames. Photo: Em Fitzgerald Our members also include emerging and aspiring writers (known as our Candidate Members). “ We have been negotiating better pay and working conditions for writers since Perhaps the best example of reach into the new economy is the 1959. The national agreements we have in place cover key employers, including well-established Writers’ Guild of Great Britain which goes some the BBC, ITV, National Theatre, Royal Court and Royal Shakespeare Company. way to bringing worker representation to the expanding online world, “ We have attracted high-profile members throughout our 57-year history, videogames and creative content of all sorts.” and continue to do so today. Their names include, among many others: screenwriters Steven Moffat, Mike Leigh, Caitlin Moran, Emma Thompson Journalist, academic, banker and former Blair and Paul Laverty; playwrights Tom Stoppard, April De Angelis, Laura Wade speechwriter Philip Collins, writing on ‘tomorrow’s and Mike Bartlett; authors Tony Robinson, Stella Duffy, Sandi Toksvig and trade unions’ in ideas magazine Prospect David Nicholls. We lobby and campaign on behalf of writers, to ensure their voices are heard in a rapidly changing digital landscape, and we wield influence over politicians in Westminster, Brussels, Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and beyond. BECOME A MEMBER We offer a range of benefits to our members, including free training, contract vetting, a pension scheme, Welfare Fund, entry to our Find A We welcome all professional writers working in the fields we represent, Writer directory, a weekly ebulletin, plus member-only events and discounts. and have a variety of membership options, including one for aspiring/ emerging writers (Candidate Members) and Affiliate Members. You can join online at www.writersguild.org.uk or by phoning our membership team on 0207 833 0777 THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards @TheWritersGuild #wggbawards THE WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2016 We produced a Rights Card for IN RADIO... playwrights working under our TNC and UK Theatre agreements. We have negotiated special fees for the Home Front Radio 4 drama serial until 2018. We organise the annual Olwen Wymark Theatre Encouragement Awards. We meet regularly with the BBC to raise issues on pay and conditions for radio We organise an annual Literary Managers’ writers, which are enshrined in our Forum to discuss issues directly with national agreements. theatres and touring companies. We held a special Meet the Radio Drama We held two panel events at London Producers panel event. Writers’ Week 2016 – on musical theatre, and fact-based theatre – and hosted a We organise the annual Tinniswood audio reception for playwrights afterwards. drama script award, alongside the Society of Authors, which is presented at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. IN FILM... WGGB continues to offer its members free screenings of current and upcoming film releases Photo: shutterstock.com/KEN226 We teamed up with Film London and IN BOOKS... Directors UK for a Creative Partnerships Our Books Committee represents poets Day connecting writers, directors and as well as writers of prose and deals with IN TELEVISION... producers, and featuring leading figures in various issues of relevance to them. the industry. WGGB and the Personal Managers’ We were involved in the BBC Love It Or We hosted a Meet the World of Graphic Association have set up Writers Digital Lose It campaign, as part of the Federation We have run a series of free, exclusive Fiction event. Payments, a not-for-profit company that of Entertainment Unions (FEU) – calling for WGGB member film screenings, and ensures writers get paid whenever their a strong, independent and publicly-funded offered members the chance to attend film We supported a national libraries, work is shown online. Since the scheme corporation as it faced charter renewal. premieres, including Q&As with writers, museums and galleries demonstration was established in 2015, Writers Digital directors and leading cast members. against cuts and closures. We work collectively with other unions Payments has paid out over £1.3 million to to combat bullying, harassment by We hosted a screenwriters’ summer party writers whose work has been shown on managers and colleagues as part of the with Euroscript and The Black List. BBC iPlayer and ITV Player. IN ANIMATION... Creating Without Conflict campaign, We hosted a Screenwriting for Sustainability We have negotiated fee increases of 75% and held a conference for employers on We have revised our Guidelines for event with the albert Consortium at BAFTA. for writers working under our Pact anti-bullying best practice. Animation Writers. agreement; 2% for BBC TV writers and We have started work on revising our film We have also produced a best-practice guide 1.75% for ITV writers. We are also agreement with Pact. for industry professionals in collaboration negotiating a new television agreement IN THEATRE... Our ‘locked box’ deal with the British Film with the Personal Managers’ Association. with the Personal Managers’ Association We negotiated above-inflation minimum Institute (BFI) ensures that writers now get and Pact. rates increases for playwrights working a share (alongside producers and directors) Our Free is NOT an Option campaign, under our Independent Theatre Council of recouped income from feature films IN VIDEOGAMES… against unpaid development work, has and TNC (Royal Court, Royal Shakespeare supported with Lottery Funding through the gained support in international writers’ Company and National Theatre) BFI Film Fund (and held in a ‘locked box’ We are revising our guidelines for games meetings, amongst high-profile figures in agreements. We negotiated a 2% minimum for reinvestment in the British film industry). writers and those who work with them. the arts, and in Parliament. fee increase for writers working under our We hold events, including an annual UK Theatre agreement. panel event with the International Game We continue to tackle the issue of writers not being paid properly, for example on Developers Association.
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