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Glittering line-up at Screenwriters’ Festival

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The list of speakers at the 4th annual Screenwriters’ Festival at Cheltenham (October 26-29) features the great and the good of British writers, including Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire [+see also:
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), Catherine Johnson (Mamma Mia! [+see also:
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), Armando Iannucci (In the Loop [+see also:
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), Mark Tonderai (Hush) and Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars).

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The festival will feature the people and institutions responsible for commissioning most of the original TV and film drama in the UK, including Ben Stephenson, Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning; Christine Langan, Creative Director of BBC Films; Kate Harwood, Controller of Series and Serials, BBC Drama; and Tessa Ross, Controller of Film and Drama at Film4/Channel 4; besides production companies like Warner Brothers, Kudos, DNA and Big Talk.

Festival director David Pearson said, “The film and TV industry’s key decision makers will be joining the UK’s leading writers, producers and directors, and this year there will be more market focussed meetings and networking that will once again lead to new projects being progressed and made. With our extended public events like Armando Iannucci’s ‘Funny Bits’ and Catherine Johnson’s ‘Musical Magic’, we are giving an even wider audience the chance to hear from the world’s leading screen storytellers.”

This year, the festival will focus on comedy, the resurgence of the British thriller and will also look at the theme of ‘Conversion’ – i.e., exploring ways to move from writing in one industry sector to another.

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