Danny Plunkett
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UK film-makers should spread co-production wings, conference told
Co-productions may open up opportunities to UK film-makers that are restricted by thelimitationsinlocal film finance, the third International Screenwriters Festival in Cheltehnam was told.
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Screenwriters still undervalued, says Oscar winner Ronald Harwood
The film industry's undervaluing ofthe work of screenwriters - and the need for writers to be more assertive and proactive in response- were the recurring themes on the first day of this year's International Screenwriters Festival.
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Video-on-demand in Europe sees surge in growth
Much of the growth is due to websites provided by broadcasters and television channels offering free catch-up TV, giving viewers access to certain programmes, notably episodes of series, for a period of several days after their transmission. As a result, the great majority of VoD services (74%) are being delivered ...
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United Kingdom - Making his beds
In 2005, "a bit exhausted" by the script development on his new feature, Unmade Beds, writer-director Alexis Dos Santos travelled to his native Argentina to shoot an experimental project.
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Profile:Adulthooddirector Noel Clarke
It is mid-November and almost four weeks into the five-week shoot of his debut feature, actor-writer-director Noel Clarke is a man in his element.
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United Kingdom - Life After Death
Death At A Funeral was written as a spec script by London-based writer Dean Craig to direct himself for around $200,000 (£100,000). But a friend, US writer-director-producer Laurence Malkin had bigger ambitions.
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United States - Freedom of the pen
When series regular Steve Kloves ducked out of writing the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, producer David Heyman turned to Michael Goldenberg. Goldenberg is no stranger to challenging adaptations, with Contact and Peter Pan among his credits. He immediately felt he had a ...
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Screenwriting: cracking the code
Complaints from writers about their status in the film industry are perennial. So what can drive change, given the priority is to make films that find an audience - not keep writers happy' Danny Plunkett reports on a possible breakthrough at the International Screenwriters' Festival.
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Experts at Screenwriters Festival call for new Code Of Practice
After two days catering to emerging talents, Oscar-winning writer William Nicholson (Gladiator, forthcoming The Golden Age) opened the main festival Thursday by renewing his call for writers who want more of a voice in film productons to become producers.
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United Kingdom - Going to extremes
Write what you know, is the classic advice given to feature film writers. So where does that leave a documentary-maker, still stunned by the horrors of civil war in Kosovo, who wants to make his first feature in the UK'
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United Kingdom - Going to extremes
Write what you know, is the classic advice given to feature film writers. So where does that leave a documentary-maker, still stunned by the horrors of civil war in Kosovo, who wants to make his first feature in the UK'