Exclusive: Origin Pictures, Paines Plough, BBC Films launch writing scheme
Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.
Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.
The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.
The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.
Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.
Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...
Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.
Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.
The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.
The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.
Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.
Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...
- 7/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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