Updates and News
ORIGINALITY vs CREATIVITY vs COMMERCIALISM:
A Follow-up with Steve La Rue As a continuation from his talk at this year’s London Screenwriters’ Festival, development executive Steve La Rue has
How I got my script to Hollywood via the Elevator Pitch at LondonSWF
Guest post by John Craig Howells I’m like you. I don’t live in the glamour or bustle of the film industry. I don’t have
Echoes in eternity: In conversation with William Nicholson
Screenwriter of ‘Gladiator’, William Nicholson delivered an outstanding session at the London Screenwriters Festival this year, crammed with hard won lessons, pragmatic advice
What Hollywood Career Coach Lee Jessup Thought About The London Screenwriters Festival
Full disclosure: I can be quite the cynic. I probably think that I am more than I actually am, but still… It’s not often
How we ALL let Kate Leys know how much she meant to us
Life has a way of gate crashing our gameplan and shuffling the cards around. Dealing us a surprise hand. This happened for one of
How LSF2014 led to me getting a joke on HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU!
by Niki Wakefield In truth, topical comedy is not one of my strong points – probably because I can’t tell the difference between David
The impact your story can have and how it can change the world
Guest Blog by LSF’15 delegate Lesley Grice A few months ago I lay in bed in Paris saddened by the news of the death,
10 Aphorisms to Write by: My #LondonSWF 2014 by KT Parker
Creative Director Chris Jones and his amazing team did it again. They put on a superlative event that inspired, energised and empowered us to
If You Love Your Story? Let It Go
So it’s been a week since LSF – where did the time go, eh!! One thing I see a lot of submissions-wise is what
Can I Make Some Changes Before I Send My Screenplay?
So LondonSWF 2014 happened and needless to say, IT WAS AWESOME. Hope you’re connecting, tweeting, blogging and enjoying yourself even AFTER the event because
Jackie Malton and Pete Salt, The Real Sources Behind Prime Suspect and Casualty
Realism, that thing that gives drama it’s impact, often involves writers going to a source or special consultant to enrich the content of their
Getting a Writing Gig that Lasts Years: Writing Sit-Coms ~ #LondonSWF
Sit-Coms are, love ’em or hate ’em, a lasting style of comedy and one in which, if you’re fortunate enough to be good at,
Originality, Commercialism and Creativity: Steve La Rue and David Reynolds
There are twenty-nine superhero movies currently scheduled for release, TV development exec Steve La Rue calmly announces to a gasp from the many delegates
Silence of the Lambs: Script to Screen with Screenwriter Ted Tally
There’s not a lot of talking going on, even from Ted Tally, as Silence of the Lambs plays on screen gripping a room of
The British Screenwriters’ Awards 2014: Hosted by Rhona Cameron
In a star studded (Ted Tally and Joel Schumacher sat next to one another in the front row counts) and joyous event 2014 found
Adapting Novels: Ted Tally with Daniel Martin Eckhart
Adapting novels into screenplay is something many screenwriters balk at, whether wanting to focus on their own stories exclusively or finding the process of
The Craft: Killer Style, Tone and Techniques with Pilar Alessandra
Script consultant and editor Pilar Alessandra took us on a whirlwind hour of screenwriting craft to analyse screenplay and see how our choices, if
Echoes in Eternity: In Conversation with William Nicholson
With a formidable body of work, William Nicholson joined us to share some of his experience, in his own words, “to try and be
Hollywood Classics: Joel Schumacher
Once again sitting down with Joel Schumacher (do I make that sound like there’s not a few hundred people in the room?) to look
Joel Schumacher Script to Screen: The Lost Boys
Watching one of my favourite films, The Lost Boys as Joel Schumacher himself sits in the room talking about it’s making was for me
Writing Visually with Ludo Smolski
Development consultant and script editor Ludo is, he tells us more of a reader than a writer. And in the scripts he reads he’s
Tony Jordan: Lessons Learnt From The Scriptwriting Trenches
Veteran Writer Tony Jordan joined us to discuss the span of his career and the things he’s learned along the way. Beginning at aged
Writing Breakthrough Crime Drama with Lynda La Plante CBE ~ #LondonSWF
Spanning a vast amount of broadcast time over decades of good drama Lynda La Plante has a vibrant and ongoing writing career, but that’s
FADE IN: The London Screenwriters’ Festival is About to Begin!
As Chris Jones opens the 2014 London Screenwriters’ Festival I once again begin to bring you just a small portion of the seminars, screenwriting
Travelling Light
It’s at this time each year that I pack some stuff into my camera bag and head of to live tweet and to blog
#LondonSWF Last Minute Checks …
Eeep! With Festival Week and Ned Dowd’s “Producing YOUR Movie” one day course just under twenty four hours away, official LondonSWF 2014 madness is kicking
Actors Table Read Schedule Announced
Congratulations to all the screenwriters whose scripts will be work-shopped with directors and actors at the LSF this year. You can see all the
Advice from some of our 2014 Pitch Execs at the Great British PitchFest
We asked the execs attending the PitchFest for their advice and here are a few of the quotes. You can see ALL of the
So, Joel Schumacher is coming to LondonSWF 2014! by Lucy V Hay
Let that sink in a minute. JOEL FREAKING SCHUMACHER!!!!! Joel is a writer, director AND producer with an UNBELIEVABLE portfolio, especially for us eighties
A Look In The Spec Pile: #LondonSWF Script Labs 2014
So, my crack team of readers and I have been hard at it these past two weeks (snarf) and we’re *almost there* on scoring
And the winner is….!
Lights… Drum roll…. And the winner is…. Huge congratulations to DARREN BARKER, the Winner of the Script Angel / LSF Screenwriting Contest 2014. The
3 Ways To Write A Trans Character by Elinor Perry-Smith
We love female screenwriters and directors here at @LondonSWF (not to mention better representation of marginalised voices, generally), so when we were recently invited to
Superhero Training Day For The LSF Team
Adrian, a new LSF Team recruit looked at me with concern… ‘When you said we will firewalk I thought you were speaking metaphorically…’ The
A Look In The Spec Pile: The Actors’ Table Read 2014 by Lucy V
So it’s submissions week here at LondonSWF and wow! All kinds of stories, genres and characters have been flashing before my eyes so I
How I got my agent: LSF Delegate Cera Rose Pickering shares her LSF strategies
I just recorded a terrific podcast with actress turned screenwriter, Cera Rose Pickering, an LSF veteran of three festivals and in for her fourth
