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‘Four Nights In August’ competition – what did 23 film makers do with the same script?

The London Screenwriters’ Festival Four Nights In August competition is now closed. And what an amazing experience it has been. We had 350 submitted screenplays, from which we will chose two joint winners… You can read them here… ‘Why?’ by Milethia Thomas and ‘Everything You Need’ by Dave Turner. The competition was then opened up [...]

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‘Everything You Need’, joint winner of the LSF Screenplay Competition…

Yesterday, the winners of our script competition were announced, and I thought I would share the second of the one page screenplay. So I present to you ‘Everything You Need’ by David Turner (blog at http://armyofdave.com and Twitter at @armyofdave). Do leave feedback as to what you think for Dave. And remember, you can make [...]

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‘Why’, joint winner of the LSF Screenplay Competition…

Yesterday, the winners of our script competition were announced, and I thought I would share the two one page screenplays. First up is ‘Why?’ by Milethia Thomas… Do leave feedback as to what you think for Milethia. And remember, you can make this script now as part of our film maker challenge. And more up [...]

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The One Page Movie Competition Officially BEGINS NOW!

The script leg of the ‘Four Nights In August’ competition closed last week and now we have a winner. Stop the press! WE HAVE TWO WINNERS! Yes we had a tie, so we decided to split the award. First, and in no particular order, is ‘Everything You Need’ by David Turner. And sharing that top [...]

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One Page Film Maker Challenge… Are YOU Up For It?

Four Days In August, our 1 page screenplay competition is now closed and the winner will be announced on Friday. At that point, the script will be made available for YOU to make. You have fourteen days to complete it and upload to us. There are great prizes up for grabs, including cash, tickets to [...]

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Four Nights In August script competition, first round finalists announced

So our very own Lucy V Hay and her team of dedicated script readers have been reading the submissions for our ‘Four Nights In August’ script competition… here is the first big announcement. So we had a whopping 241 of entries for the Four Nights In August Competition! To say we were surprised is an [...]

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Enter our one page screenwriting and film making competitions to win great prizes and seen by top talent

Now that our Screenwriting a Film Making Competitions are live, I thought I would write about why these competitions are going to be so fascinating, and why you should enter, be you a filmmaker or a screenwriter. So what are the competions? 1. A one page screenwriting competition, free and open to anyone, that closes [...]

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Win a ticket to the London Screenwriters’ Festival in our terrifying Tweetfest

Off the back of the success of #Comfest for the London Comedy Writers’ Genre Fest back in April, Team LSF are delighted to announce a GHOULISHLY good new contest based around Halloween for London Screenwriters’ Festival 2011, which takes place this October. Want to a win a ticket to the event? Here’s what you do: [...]

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Interview with the writer of last years winner of the Reed Short Film Competition – Read The Script, Watch The Film, Meet The Film Makers

Interview with the writer of last years winner of the Reed Short Film Competition – Read The Script, Watch The Film, Meet The Film Makers

(NOTE – PLEASE SWITCH TO 720P TO WATCH IN HD) Writing a short script is much harder than it sounds. Those of us who have done it can attest to this. And so I thought I would share a podcast interview with writer and producer Stephen Follows, about his script for ‘Sign Language’ which won [...]

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Get your short film produced in four weeks, guaranteed!

Get your short film produced in four weeks, guaranteed!

Four weeks to go… Yesterday I said to London Screenwriters Festival manager David Chamberlain that ‘we are entering the vortex…’ Having organised many similar events in the USA, he smiled back knowingly… ‘yes we are…’ So for me, the coming month is going to become crazier and crazier as we attempt to get our 75 [...]

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Be part of the biggest event in Europe for professional screenwriters, The London Screenwriters Festival 2010

Be part of the biggest event in Europe for professional screenwriters, The London Screenwriters Festival 2010

The last few weeks have been pretty intense as I have worked hard with our team,  putting together the London Screenwriters Festival 2010. While the website seems to be in constant evolution, it is pretty much there now. And I have to say I am giddy with excitement at the line up we have. Make [...]

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Gone Fishing at the Performance Short Film Competition

From guest blogger Eddie Hamilton When Chris asked me to go along with Vernon and Ivan to represent Gone Fishing at the first Performance Short Film Competition on 25th March 2009 and shoot a special edition blog webisode I was thrilled. We were shortlisted down to the final 12 out of over 400 short films [...]

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Emails about the Rhode Island Film Festival

Emails about the Rhode Island Film Festival

Since returning from Rhode Island, I have received a huge number of emails on all manner of subjects. I thought I might share a few with you… There's nothing I can really put into words about how I feel about your project, we've all felt loss, and your film speaks to me, especially with my [...]

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Watch The Kodak Awards Screening VideoBlog

So the Kodak Screenings have begun, and yesterday I attended the afternoon screenings and we made this short video here. I am attending again today, and will be there during the week at various points too. If you can make it, we would love to see you there. Go on, you know you want to [...]

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Help us win the 2008 Kodak Awards!

Help us win the 2008 Kodak Awards!

The Kodak 2008 Awards are now underway, and we need your help and support TO WIN with ‘Gone Fishing’! Gone Fishing is down to the final 8 films, and the best film is an audience award. So, we need you and EVERYONE you know, to get to a screening and vote for our movie. Most [...]

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