Screen International - 29 June 2009

Writer-director Paul Schrader is to attend the inaugural ScreenLit, Film, TV & Writing Festival at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema (29 June to 5 July).

Schrader, the writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and whose own directorial credits include Cat People, Light Sleeper, Blue Collar and American Gigolo, will receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Screenwriting.

Linda Pariser, festival director, said: "Schrader’s decades as a scree...

Film & TV Writing Festival - 29 June - 5 July

This year sees the first ever ScreenLit Film, TV & Writing Festival in Nottingham, UK. The festival was inspired by the rich, continuing heritage of writing from Nottingham and the East Midlands, but the scope is international and across artforms. Each year ScreenLit will celebrate the writers’ seminal contribution to 21st century culture through the narratives of film, TV, books and the ever expanding range and forms of new media.

This year...