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… [...]

Is TV where the best drama is produced?
News that Aaron Sorkin is back in the saddle (The Newsroom ,this summer – trailer above) did give me a little bit of a heart flutter because for me at least, the best writing in drama is now in TV. I suspect this is largely down to the fact that long form TV drama can [...]

Watch killer Guerilla Film on BBC 1 tonight at 11.15pm… ‘Sus’
Tonight, BBC 1 at 11.15 is the Network premiere of low budget Brit drama ‘SUS’, written by Barrie Keeffe and produced by my good pal Mark Sutherland. You may recall Mark from the Production Office last year when he shared his experience and philosophy for film making with us all – it was pretty inspirational. [...]

Thank you for an amazing 2011!
Last night we held the annual London Screenwriters’ Festival annual party, and it was PACKED! So great to see so many old friends from the festival. And yes, there was plenty of networking going on too. I thought I would share our festival Xmas card above, with the core team of Judy, Gemma, Michael, ChrisW [...]

Why pitching is SO much more than selling your film…
In this short three minute clip from his one hour seminar at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, Rowan Joffe succinctly explains the power, value and use of a pitch above and beyond ‘selling your story’. I heard this session when it was being edited and what he says really chimes in with my own experience in [...]

Come to the London Screenwriters’ Festival 2012 for £24 a month (10 months)
Christmas has come early! You asked for it… so it’s back! Come to the London Screenwriters’ Festival in 2012 for £24 a month, for 10 months… You can sign up with the button below… The London Screenwriters Festival is rapidly becoming the worlds biggest and most important event of its kind. If you attended last [...]

‘Make it real but unusual’, Linda Aronson closing advice
‘A good kick in the conventions…!’ Pete Dodd, Director This weekend we ran the 2 day 21st Century Screenwriter Masterclass with Linda Aronson. Nearly 200 screenwriters and filmmakers crammed into Tuke Hall at Regents College to listen in awe at an extraordinarily detailed seminar on contemporary screenwriting. The delegates said it best… ‘What worked 50 [...]

What is your Tweet Reach? get stats on your hashtag
Apparently, our TweetReach with the #LondonSWF tag was over two million impressions. Holy hot tweets batman! What the blazes does that actually mean? At the festival, I ran a short social media workshop for people who were reluctant to engage with new social media sites and tools. At the end, screenwriter Daniel Martin Eckhart (@dmeckhart) [...]

Advanced Screenwriting Techniques with Linda Aronson
This weekend I am hosting a two day advanced screenwriters masterclass with Linda Aronson, The 21st Century Screenwriter. I am particularly excited about this as Linda was our top speaker at this years festival, and for once, I can actually sit in the audience and get all the good stuff that everyone else is getting. [...]

42 Ways To Improve Your Screenplay
Screenwriters Slogans For The Wall… by Alexander MacKendrick © The Estate of Alexander Mackendrick www.alexandermackendrick.com At the London Screenwriters’ Festival, Paul Cronin delivered a terrific session on Alexander Mackendrick and the preverbal language of cinema. Paul also sent me some scans (above) of the aphorisms Mackendrick had stuck to his wall when he taught screenwriting [...]

‘Spaced’, ‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ and ‘Scott Pilgrim’… Edgar Wright at the London Screenwriters’ Festival
‘Spaced’, ‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ and ‘Scott Pilgrim’… Edgar Wright at the London Screenwriters’ Festival! Podcast below, video above. Download the MP3 file here for your iPod At the eleventh hour, Edgar agreed to join us at the festival and delivered an inspiring session to a crammed cinema of screenwriters and film makers. [...]

Feedback from delegates at the London Screenwriters’ Festival 2011
So the second London Screewriters’ Festival has closed and everyone in attendance agreed that it was an extraordinary event. We asked for feedback from the nearly five hundred delegates in attendance, and blimey, we were inundated! So here is a small cross section of what our delegates at the festival are saying about their experiences… [...]

So the London Screenwriters’ Festival Happened!
Right now, I am still recovering from the rollercoaster that was LSF2011. And to say it was a success would be an understatement. During the festival we asked our delegates to write a message to our speakers… and we ended up with what we call the ‘LSF Wall Of Love’… if you came to the [...]

Adieu..
My task at this year’s London Screenwriters Festival was to write. For someone who just enjoys the simple process of putting words on a screen, it’s been a real privilege. I was joined this year by Neal Romanek who’s been tweeting and blogging alongside me on the festival blog and official #LondonSWF hashtag. Check out [...]

It’s a Wrap! London Screenwriters Festival 2011
And so, the hundreds of delegates who attended the festival gathered one last time in the main hall to hear Chris Jones wrap up the 2011 London Screenwriters Festival. In it’s second year the festival has been more focussed and built on the feedback from last year to give a very full and varied experience [...]
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