Applications open for Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2023

Applications are now open for the landmark 20th edition of Screen International’s Screen Stars of Tomorrow, our annual portfolio of new talent from the UK and Ireland. 

The submissions window is open for one month, from March 1 to March 31, 2023. 

Applications are open to UK and Irish nationals and long-term residents of either country. There is no upper or lower age limit.

Applicants should use the this Google Form and need to attach a brief bio, a headshot and contact details as well as a small statement about why they are applying. This form is mandatory.

The field is open to producers, directors, writers, actors and heads of department. 

Producers, writers and heads of department should ideally have one feature film to their credit. Directors, conversely, should be on the point of making their first feature, while actors must be working in cinema as well as TV.

Screen International’s reviews editor and chief critic Fionnuala Halligan will take charge of the selection process for the 13th consecutive year in 2023. She can be contacted at screenstarsoftomorrow@gmail.com.

Screen will announce the winners in early July and celebrate with a reception in Central London shortly afterwards.

Although confined to the UK and Ireland, Screen’s Stars of Tomorrow talent initiative has proved itself to be the global film industry’s most successful new talent showcase with an unrivalled track record for discovering actors and key creatives, many of whom have gone on to win Academy Awards and Baftas and become household names.

See below for some of the previous Stars of Tomorrow:

Previous Stars of Tomorrow include: 

• James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Emily Blunt, Noel Clarke and director Andrea Arnold, all selected for the first-ever edition in 2004

• David Oyelowo, Eddie Redmayne, Ruth Negga, writer Abi Morgan and producer Mia Bays (2005)

• Riz Ahmed, Dan Stevens, Hayley Atwell and Andrea Riseborough, with directors Tom Harper and The Blaine Brothers (2006)

• Andrew Garfield, Felicity Jones, Matt Smith and Gemma Arterton , writer Jack Thorne (2007)

• Dev Patel, Claire Foy, Tom Hiddleston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and writer-director Andrew Haigh (2008)

• Luke Evans, Daniel Kaluuya, Bel Powey, directors Destiny Ekaragha and Richard Ayoade (2009)

• Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Jessica Brown Findlay and writer Kelly Marcel (2010)

• John Boyega, Richard Madden, Joe Cole, Vanessa Kirby and writer-directors John Maclean, Rowan Athale, Scott Graham and Michael Pearce (2011)

• Tom Holland, George MacKay and Letitia Wright (2012)

• Will Poulter, Cush Jumbo, Arinze Kene and Stacy Martin (2013)

• Olivia Cooke, Taron Egerton, Jack Lowden, Maisie Williams and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (2014)

• Jessica Barden, Joe Alwyn, Barry Keoghan and writers Charlie Covell and Marnie Dickens (2015)

• Jodie Comer, Hannah-John Kamen, Josh O’Connor, Florence Pugh, director Kate Herron and producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (2016)

• Directors Nathaniel Martello-White and Remi Weekes, actors Jessie Buckley, Naomi Ackie, Harris Dickinson, and Michaela Coel (2017)

• Rhianne Barreto, Dafne Keen, Niamh Algar, directors Rose Glass and Koby Adom (2018)

• Actors Sam Adewumni, Dixie Egerickx, Himesh Patel, Vicky Knight, Synnove Karlson and directors Rapman and Alice Seabright (2019)

• Actors Paul Mescal, Emma Corrin, Ncuti Gawa, Micheal Ward and directors Akinola Davis Jr and Charlotte Regan, producer Joy Gharoro Akpojator, writer Courttia Newland (2020)

• Actors Daryl MaCormack, Aaron Pierre, Ann Skelly and Anjana Vasan and directors Raine Allen-Miller, Thomas Hardiman and Adura Onashile, alongside writer Sam Steiner and producer Sorcha Bacon (2021)

• Actors Louis Partridge, Yasmin Finney, Rosy McEwen, Jamie Flatters and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, and filmmakers Luna Carmoon, Ruth Greenberg, Runyararo Mapfumo and Eddie Sternberg