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Jonathan Glazer awarded Wellcome Trust/BFI Fellowship

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- Award worth £30,000 and provides access to research

Jonathan Glazer awarded Wellcome Trust/BFI Fellowship
British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer

British writer/director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin [+see also:
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) has been named the 2014 Wellcome Trust and British Film Institute (BFI) Screenwriting Fellow in association with Film4. This screenwriting initiative, which is designed to bring the worlds of film and science closer together, is worth £30,000 and provides tailored access to research. It will run for one year from January to December 2015. The current Fellow, Clio Barnard, will complete her Fellowship at the end of this year. 

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Glazer said, “Being awarded the Screenwriting fellowship is a unique opportunity: I’m looking forward to being exposed to new influences and ideas and where they might lead me. My method of working has always been fluid and receptive, so to be gifted such incredible access will be invaluable.”

Members of the Fellowship Panel, which includes script and story editor Kate Leys; Director of Strategy at the Wellcome Trust, Clare Matterson; Senior Development and Production Executive at the BFI Film Fund, Lizzie Francke; and Senior Development Editor at Film4, Eva Yates, chose Glazer.

Francke said, “Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin was the most compelling and extraordinary cinematic vision of last year – a 2014 odyssey that explored the space between male and female. The Wellcome Trust Fellowship allows him to get under another skin – exploring biomedical science – and we expect that it will have the same audacious and mind-blowing results.”

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