Day three of war stories from the SciFi London 48 hour challenge, today Simon Cox… take it away! I’d heard about the Sci-Fi London 48 Hours Film festival, but to be honest, I hadn’t ever considered actually doing it. I was more interested in getting my own feature film projects off the ground. However, as [...]

Sci_Fi London 48 hour film challenge post shoot analysis, tips and insights: Team Superluminal
Post the 2012 Sci_Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge, I asked some of the film makers to share their experiences making their films, so that we might learn from the successes and failures. First up is Jake Wynne, heading Team Superluminal 2012 and his film ‘Eight Items’. Take it away… I am a director working [...]

Get your film in cinemas with our unique competition
50 Kisses Competition – Write Film / Make Film / Distribute Film: a unique competition from The London Screenwriters’ Festival. Get your script produced and get your movie released in cinemas. A unique competition that guarantees 50 scripts will be shot and 50 films will be theatrically released next year. Are you in? Read on… [...]

‘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 [...]

‘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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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