Industry News
Photo: Jay Brooks BAFTA
Simon Beaufoy
Screenwriters…. On screenwriting
Wed, 4 Aug 2010
We’re delighted to be joining our colleagues at BAFTA and the BFI as Media Partner for a brilliant new series coming up in September. Profiling the art of screenwriting through a fantastic selection of live events, the Screenwriters’ Lectures series pulls together some of the starriest screenwriters working today, including Simon Slumdog Beaufoy, Sir David The Hours Hare and Aline Brosh McKenna, responsible for The Devil Wears Prada. It goes significantly beyond simple ‘career chat’, by offering unique presentations, lectures and interviews from the best in the business. Recognising this as the perfect place to get inspired about your own work, we’re excited to be able to invite a selection of our Members as well as our She Writes participants to be our guests at each event, but we’ve set aside a pair of tickets to every event for one lucky reader to win if you’re not (yet!) in either category.
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Articles
The parent trap: art after children
Among the many responses we received after the brilliant Frank Cottrell Boyce delivered his keynote lecture at our Serious Screenwriting event at BAFTA earlier this summer was a collective gasp at the casual mention of his seven children… yes, home-schooled! This week The Guardian carried another brilliant slice of Frank wisdom as he makes the case for family chaos being friend not foe to the creative mind.
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Reviews
Death At A Funeral
Any screenwriter will be delighted that their work’s getting filmed, but Dean Craig found himself in an almost surreal situation when his comedy Death at a Funeral was remade in Hollywood only a couple of years after the original British version hit the screens. Since the essential structure of the story remained unchanged in the meantime, this is clearly a script with pointers to offer anyone approaching their own comedy writing. Spoilers ahead as our reviewer Trevor Johnston dons black tie to investigate how you turn mourning into laughter.
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