Bafta Rocliffe New Writing Showcase – Film 2017
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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 TIM CORRIE Founder, United Agents (Chair) Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien, Sue Perkins, John Bishop, Greg Brenmer, Olivia FARAH ABUSHWESHA Rocliffe (Moderator) Hetreed, Andy Patterson and Andy Harries. FIL M 2017 BABAK ANVARI Director HILARY DAVIS Co-Managing Director, Bankside Films TUESDAY 28 DECEMBER 2017 // BAFTA 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN Rocliffe Producer KAHLEEN CRAWFORD Casting Director FARAH ABUSHWESHA KATE LEYS Script Editor [email protected] NICK THURLOW Producer BAFTA Producer OLIVIA HETREED Writer JULIA CARRUTHERS LONE SCHERFIG is one of Most recently Amanda was the producer on Their [email protected] the most sought after directors Finest and multi BAFTA-nominated Brooklyn The Panel Directors working today. After initial which won the BAFTA for Outstanding British ADO YOSHIZAKI Producer IAN ARYEH success with The Birthday Trip Film, as well as five further BAFTA nominations. [email protected] ANNA GRIFFIN Producer KAT WOOD and On Our Own, Lone wrote Amanda’s previous producer credits include An BENNETT MCGHEE Producer [email protected] and directed Italian for Beginners, Education; A Long Way Down written by Jack CELINE COULSON Development Editor, Film4 SUSAN JACOBSON which won the Silver Bear Jury Prize for Best Thorne based on Nick Hornby’s best-selling [email protected] ED CRIPPS Writer Director at the 2001 Berlin International Film novel; and Fever Pitch, which Hornby adapted Artwork JAY TAYLOR Producer, Electric Shadow Company Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI International based on his memoir and starred Colin Firth, as DERMOT FLYNN JEAN KITSON Literary Agent, Kitson Management www.dermotflynn.com Film Critics Award, and the Ecumenical Prize. well as the US remake starring Drew Barrymore LINCIA DANIELS Producer and Jimmy Fallon. Casting MICHELLE HORN Media Associate, Ingenious FAYE TIMBY Lone has gone on to direct award-winning An SARAH ARNOTT Acquisitions Consultant [email protected] Education, which received eight nominations at SHONA COLLINS Creative Executive, Path Music the 2010 British Academy Film Awards, including FARAH ABUSHWESHA, a SUSAN JACOBSON Director ALICE ATKINSON a nomination for Best Director, as well as One BAFTA-nominated producer TOM CHESOVER Development Coordinator, BBC Films [email protected] Day, The Riot Club and Lone’s latest feature Their and best-selling author, is a YANA GEORGIEVA Head of Sales, Bankside Films Finest, which starred Gemma Arterton, Billy champion of new talent. Her Find us on Facebook Nighy and Sam Claflin and was produced by most recent feature films include BAFTA Amanda Posey and Stephen Woolley. Netflix original Irreplaceable You BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huismann, Follow us on Twitter Christopher Walken and Steven Coogan and @rocliffeforum @BAFTA AMANDA POSEY is a BAFTA- Danny Huston’s The Last Photograph. She is winning film producer who runs the founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org Wildgaze Films, one of the UK’s Writing Showcase. leading independent production companies, with producing BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies partner, Finola Dwyer. Amanda of their scripts, projects or CVs, or request previously headed up the film development contact details. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot department at Scala Productions. provide contact details of attendees. GENTLE BLUE SKIES PONT BREC Gentle by KEIR BURROWS by PETER EMINA by DAMIAN EVANS, BRIONY REDMAN c/o [email protected] [email protected] and CHARLOTTE GITTINS Directed by IAN ARYEH Directed by KAT WOOD [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Composer ZERO VU Composer ANDREA BOCCADORO Michael J. McEvoy, Mitch Taylor and Nick Taylor Directed by SUSAN JACOBSON A young South African woman who dreams of Composer DAVID POORE A portrait of the life of Echo, a thoughtful, lonely becoming a flight attendant struggles to make it boy from small-town Oklahoma, told over three to the interview that could change her life. When her family and livelihood hit breaking point, days – one in childhood, one in adulthood, and pillar of the community Susan turns to bank robbery. one as he faces death. PETER EMINA has written for multiple Watch out, Wales, shit’s about to get Swayze. publications including The Guardian, The Voice, KEIR BURROWS is a multi-award winning writer/ as well as iD and The Face. He has also written DAMIAN, CHARLOTTE and BRIONY met director. His debut feature, sci-fi Anti Matter, a children’s book, published by Phoenix Yard through a shared love of comedy and bonded Skies Blue developed with Film London support, opened Books in 2013, and took part in a screenwriting over The Larry Sanders Show. Damian has written theatrically in the US in 2017 and was described course with the New York Film School in sitcom and drama scripts, as well as comedy by the Hollywood Reporter as ‘sophisticated... London. In his day job, Peter works as a sketches. Pont Brec is his first foray into film. terrifying’. His short films have debuted twice producer/director in TV Factual Entertainment, Charlotte is an actor, comedian and self-shooting at Tribeca Film Festival, as well as at London where he is able to flex his writing muscles TV producer, whose writing credits include Film Festival, Shanghai, and many others. Keir writing for presenters on location as well as solo satirical comedy and BBC arts and history was a finalist on PAGE International 2017, was voice-overs in the edit. documentaries. Briony is a comedian who was on Berlinale Talents 2017, and won Germany’s runner up for the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy prestigious eQuinoxe development scheme. CAST competition 2016 and her short film Forget- Ade Me-Not has screened internationally at festivals CAST RAPHEL FAMOTIBE including the Palm Springs Shortfest. 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