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Screenwriting Guide launch at SWF

Posted by on Friday, October 23, 2009, In : SWF 2009 

The Writer's Guild's screenwriting guide to be launched at Festival

A new good practice guide for screenwriters produced by the Writers' Guild, to be officially launched at this year’s Screenwriters’ Festival, calls for writers and producers to be partners not enemies.

The comprehensive "how-to" document aims to bridge the gap between the art and the business of screenwriting. It stresses that to be a success in the industry you need more than just a great script. Careful collaborat...


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THE SWF NEEDS YOU !

Posted by on Friday, October 23, 2009, In : SWF 2009 

Dear Fellow Writer,

My apologies for this intrusion but I write on a matter of some urgency.

You are probably aware that the annual International Screenwriters’ Festival is set to start next week in Cheltenham, running from Monday 26 to Thursday 29 October. It is the only festival in the world that celebrates both the art and business sides of screenwriting and that brings together both the British and international community of writers.

And it needs you.

The Screenwriting Festival’...


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Guest Speakers

Posted by Julie Stewart on Thursday, March 12, 2009, In : SWF 2009 

SWF have announced some of the speakers for October 2009 


Armando Iannucci
, writer/producer and director of BBC's political satire The Thick of It and the forthcoming big screen incarnation In The Loop.. Scottish-born Armando is a comic writer, performer, director and producer.  He originally worked for BBC Radio 1 as a producer on shows such as the Mary Whitehouse Experience, Girls Will Be Girls, On The Hour and Knowing Me, Knowing You. Armando went on to write and produced Knowing Me, Knowi...


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International Screenwriter's Festival

Posted by Julie Stewart on Thursday, March 12, 2009, In : SWF 2009 

SWF enriches the Art, Business and Craft of Screen Story Telling by providing the Global Community with New Opportunities....

The International Screenwriters' Festival is dedicated to the art, business and craft of writing screen story telling. Bringing together professional industry delegates, high profile guests and new talent from around the world, the Festival provides a unique forum to debate and discuss writing dramatic scripts for film, television and new media.

"…writing is a sol...


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