Bafta Rocliffe New Writing Showcase – Film 2018
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A huge thank you to our script selection BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: panellists and judges. They included: Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, BAFTA ROCLIFFE David Parfitt, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, The Jury Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, NEW WRITING SHOWCASE Ð Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien, Sue TIM CORRIE Founder, United Agents (Chair) Perkins, John Bishop, Greg Brenmer, Olivia FARAH ABUSHWESHA Rocliffe (Moderator) Hetreed, Andy Patterson and Andy Harries. FIL M 2018 BEN ROBERTS Director of the BFI Film Fund MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2018 // BAFTA 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN CLAUDIA YUSEF Head of Development, Number 9 Films Rocliffe Producer DAVID PARFITT Producer FARAH ABUSHWESHA [email protected] JUSTINE WRIGHT Editor MOIRA BUFFINI for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2008 KEITH POTTER Executive Producer BAFTA Producer JULIA CARRUTHERS Screenplays include Jane Eyre, BAFTA Awards. Matt’s second feature film, OLIVIA HETREED Writer [email protected] directed by Cary Fukanaga; Nowhere Boy, was a chronicle of young John TOM VAUGHAN Director Directors Tamara Drewe directed by Stephen Lennon’s early years, starring Aaron Johnson, IAN ARYEH Frears; Byzantium directed by Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne‑Marie Duff, and The Panel [email protected] NOUR WAZZI Neil Jordan. She is co‑creator and was nominated for ‘Outstanding British Film’ EMILY HARRIS Director [email protected] lead writer of Harlots for Hulu and is currently at the BAFTA’s in 2010. He has since gone on EMMA YAP Development Producer, Bryncoed Productions SUSAN JACOBSON filming the third season. to write The Look of Love directed by Michael [email protected] FODHLA CRONIN OÕREILLY Producer Plays include Oliver Award‑winning Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and HELEN SIMMONS Producer Artwork Handbagged for the Tricycle; Welcome to Thebes, Anna Friel as well as to write and direct his two DERMOT FLYNN JESSIE MAGNUM Sales Agent & Producer, Goalpost www.dermotflynn.com Wonder.land (with Damon Albarn) and Dinner short films, Acid Burn and Supermarket Girl. His JOHN GIWA AMU Producer (Olivier nominated) for the National Theatre; latest feature Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Casting LUCY FAWCETT Agent, Sheil Land Associates Ltd FAYE TIMBY Dying for It (adapted from Nikolai Erdman’s the starring Annette Benning, Jamie Bell and Julie MARTHA HOOD Altitude Films [email protected] Suicide) for the Almeida; A Vampire Story for Walters was released in 2017 to critical acclaim MICHELLE HORN The Fyzz Music National Theatre Connections; Loveplay for the and was nominated for a BAFTA award for OHNA FALBY Producer ALICE ATKINSON RSC; Silence, (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), for Best Screenplay, Best Leading Actor and Best RACHEL LYSAGHT Producer [email protected] Birmingham Rep; Gabriel (LWT Plays on Stage Leading Actress. SHONA COLLINS Creative Executive, Path and Meyer Whitworth Awards) for the Soho; He is currently writing a feature for Hardy SOPHIE GREEN Head of Acquisitions, Bankside Films Find us on Facebook Blavatsky’s Tower for the Machine Room; Jordan Baker and Studio Canal. SUSAN JACOBSON Director BAFTA with Anna Reynolds (Writers’ Guild Award) BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum URSULA DEVINE Development Executive, Northern Ireland Screen for the Gate. Both Dinner and Handbagged have FARAH ABUSHWESHA YAW BASOAH Producer Follow us on Twitter enjoyed West End transfers. BAFTA‑nominated producer @rocliffeforum YERO TIMI-BIU BBC Films @BAFTA and best selling author, Farah is MATT GREENHALGH a champion of new talent. She is Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org Following a successful career in currently producing The Singapore TV Comedy and Drama, Matt Grip adapted by Christopher began his film career with the Hampton and The ABC Murders adapted by Sarah BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies release of Control in 2007. A Phelps. Her most recent feature films include of their scripts, projects or CVs, or request biopic of Joy Division frontman Netflix Original Irreplaceable You with Gugu contact details. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot Ian Curtis, Control won Best British Independent Mbatha‑Raw, Michiel Huismann, Christopher provide contact details of attendees. Film at the British Independent Film Awards Walken and Steve Coogan. She is the founder of and Matt also won the Carl Foreman Award the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Showcase. CHOSEN NOT THE END GALA DALI Chosen by JOHN OWEN THEOBALD OF THE WORLD by FINOLA WALLER Directed by NOUR WAZZI by ADAM BUTCHER Directed by SUSAN JACOBSON Composer CLARA SCHUMANN Composer GARETH MURPHY Directed by IAN ARYEH 1853. Classical musicians Clara Schumann and Composer ANDREA BOCCADORO A biopic of the battles faced by Gala – wife, Johannes Brahms engage in a scandalous love affair, manager and muse of the artist, Salvador Dali. while an ideological war rages around them. A world‑weary hermit finds a young woman’s diary and is inspired to start looking for love… despite the FINOLA WALLER’s first ever script reached the JOHN OWEN THEOBALD is a novelist and fact he lives in a terrifying post‑apocalyptic wasteland. Second Round of The Austin Film Festival. screenwriter. He the author of the Ravenmaster After then, she carried on learning the craft and Trilogy, a series of novels set in the Tower of ADAM BUTCHER is an award–winning writer/ writing. She blogs for educational sites and has London during the Blitz, and the forthcoming director and recent graduate of the Berlinale created educational quizzes for an e‑learning Not the End of the World epic novel The Deserters’ Orchestra, set during the Talents campus. He’s written and directed many portal. She mostly freelance as a proof‑reader siege of Leningrad. His debut feature screenplay successful short films, receiving a total of four and copywriter as well as teach English to GCSE Chosen explores Clara Schumann and Johannes Vimeo Staff Picks. His viral thriller Internet Story students as a private tutor. Brahms’s scandalous love affair. John’s TV pilot attracted over a million views in its first week Avalon, a political drama based on the true story online, while Bradley Manning Had Secrets won CAST of Nazi leader Rudolph Hess, was selected for ‘Best Short Film’ at Mix Copenhagen 2013. His Narrator the Austin Film Festival 2018. His short films have most recent short The Prevailing Winds (written VERITY MARSHALL screened at the BAFTA‑qualifying BFI Flare by Lawrie Doran) was funded by Film London Piers Nimmo Management and London Short Film Festival. He is currently and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. Salvador Dali adapting the Ravenmaster Trilogy for the screen. GABRIEL LO GIUDICE Adam recently finished writing a feature Volver Consulenze Artistiche CAST adaptation of Internet Story with Western Edge Gala Narrator/Marie Pictures (Third Star, Prevenge), and he’s now SIUBHAN HARRISON Gala Dali EVLYNE OYEDOKUN developing a slate of projects with the hope of Olivia Bell Management Milburn Browning Associates making a directorial debut in the near future. Paul Eluard Clara Schumann RORY FLECK BYRNE LIA BURGE CAST The ArtistÕs Partnership Mia Thomson Associates Narrator Johannes Brahms ELOISE SECKER TOM CANTON WintersonÕs Conway van Gelder Grant Arthur Robert Schumann JOEL FRY JO STONE-FEWINGS United Agents United Agents Nomad Liszt DAVID FIELDER ROBERT CAVANAH Gardner Herrity Eamonn Bedford Agency Emily Josef JEMMA GEANAUS HENRY FELIX Tildsley France Associates A&J Artists Gwendoline Doctor/Guard ALANA BODEN WILLIAM BELCHAMBERS Olivia Bell Management Tildsley France Associates.