Last month we shared that we were quarter finalists in the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. We were delighted as there were 6,915 scripts entered. This morning we received this email… ‘Congratulations! You have advanced into the Semifinal Round of the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Your script is one of only 149 […]
As the 50 Kisses song initiative draws to a close, I thought I would share some of my personal observations about the entrants, what we can learn from them, and how we can apply those lessons to our own scripts and films when submitting to a process such as a competition or open call for […]
Our ‘50 Kisses’ competition longlist was announced this week – you can read the list of the 508 scripts that made it here. Having chatted to some writers who didn’t make the longlist, I realised that we needed to provide a forum for their work too, so yesterday we created ‘Near Kisses’, a page where […]
Yesterday afternoon at the Apollo Cinema 20 excited teams of film makers gathered to see who would emerge as winner of the 2012 Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge. Having watched a few online I had some idea of the quality this year and had very little hope of our film getting any further than […]
Final guest blog about SciFi London 48 Hour challenge films, this time from pal Tom Worth… take it away Tom… I love 48 hour film challenges. I’m not sure why though: they’re exhausting, stressful and at the end you have a film you wish you’d had time to polish a bit better. However, there’s something […]
Guest post from Adele Kirby on her SciFi London 48 hour film challenge film. I’ve been going to the SF London Film Fest a few years now, and annually considered the people who undertook the 48Hr Film Challenge to be a pack of loons. Having now completed it, I can safely confirm this as truth. […]
Day three of war stories from the SciFi London 48 hour challenge, today Simon Cox… take it away! I’d heard about the Sci-Fi London 48 Hours Film festival, but to be honest, I hadn’t ever considered actually doing it. I was more interested in getting my own feature film projects off the ground. However, as […]
Post the 2012 Sci_Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge, I asked some of the film makers to share their experiences making their films, so that we might learn from the successes and failures. First up is Jake Wynne, heading Team Superluminal 2012 and his film ‘Eight Items’. Take it away… I am a director working […]
The script leg of the ‘Four Nights In August’ competition closed last week and now we have a winner. Stop the press! WE HAVE TWO WINNERS! Yes we had a tie, so we decided to split the award. First, and in no particular order, is ‘Everything You Need’ by David Turner. And sharing that top […]
Now that our Screenwriting a Film Making Competitions are live, I thought I would write about why these competitions are going to be so fascinating, and why you should enter, be you a filmmaker or a screenwriter. So what are the competions? 1. A one page screenwriting competition, free and open to anyone, that closes […]
Off the back of the success of #Comfest for the London Comedy Writers’ Genre Fest back in April, Team LSF are delighted to announce a GHOULISHLY good new contest based around Halloween for London Screenwriters’ Festival 2011, which takes place this October. Want to a win a ticket to the event? Here’s what you do: […]
(NOTE – PLEASE SWITCH TO 720P TO WATCH IN HD) Writing a short script is much harder than it sounds. Those of us who have done it can attest to this. And so I thought I would share a podcast interview with writer and producer Stephen Follows, about his script for ‘Sign Language’ which won […]
From guest blogger Eddie Hamilton When Chris asked me to go along with Vernon and Ivan to represent Gone Fishing at the first Performance Short Film Competition on 25th March 2009 and shoot a special edition blog webisode I was thrilled. We were shortlisted down to the final 12 out of over 400 short films […]
Since returning from Rhode Island, I have received a huge number of emails on all manner of subjects. I thought I might share a few with you… There's nothing I can really put into words about how I feel about your project, we've all felt loss, and your film speaks to me, especially with my […]
So the Kodak Screenings have begun, and yesterday I attended the afternoon screenings and we made this short video here. I am attending again today, and will be there during the week at various points too. If you can make it, we would love to see you there. Go on, you know you want to […]
The Kodak 2008 Awards are now underway, and we need your help and support TO WIN with ‘Gone Fishing’! Gone Fishing is down to the final 8 films, and the best film is an audience award. So, we need you and EVERYONE you know, to get to a screening and vote for our movie. Most […]
I am just preparing Gone Fishing for the Kodak Awards. Sadly, the film can only be screened on DigiBeta, which is much lower resolution than the HDCam or 35mm copies we could have used. This is a pragmatic choice on behalf of the festival organisers and Kodak, as not all of the films being screened […]
Great news! Gone Fishing has just been selected for two major events. First off is the prestigious UK 2008 Kodak Awards. I just got an email from the organizers and here’s what it said… ‘The Kodak Short Film Competition Judging is now complete. I would like to officially congratulate you in being one of the […]
