bAFTA ROcLIFFE NEw wRITINg FORum Ð FILm SHOwcASE 2015

A huge thank you to our script selection
panelists and judges. They included:
Anna Burns
Camille Gatin
Celine Coulson
Christopher Granier-Deferre
Emily Gotto
Jean Kitson
Jenn Lambert
Joe Naftalin
Jon Croker
Kate Prentice
Lauren Dark
Laurie Cooke
Lincia Daniel
Matthew Dench
Michael Berliner
Nabil Elouahabi
Susan Jacobson
Tessa Inkelaar
Ursula Devine
BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include:
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Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell,
Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron
McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates,
Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell,
Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien,
Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop
and Dave Spikey.
Bafta Rocliffe
New Writing Forum Ð
FILM SHOWCASE 2015
wednesday 2 december 2015 // BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN
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Casting
Faye Timby
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Artwork
K aty Edelsten
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Rupert Cross c/o Air Edel
L aura Nakhla
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OLIVIA HETREED is a British
screenwriter, whose work
includes the multi-award winning
Girl With A Pearl Earring, starring
Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson
and the radical adaptation of
Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold.
Olivia has worked on international feature
projects including Bosnia’s first animated feature
film, Birds Like Us, and extensively in TV drama
(The Canterbury Tales, The Treasure Seekers, Roman
Mysteries). She is President of the Writers’ Guild
of Great Britain and a very experienced mentor
of new writing talent, working with Arvon
Foundation, the London Screenwriting Festival,
Sarajevo Talent Campus, and several film schools.
ANDY PATERSON is an
award-winning producer and
sometime screenwriter. His
films include The Railway Man
(Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman),
which he co-wrote with Frank
Cottrell Boyce; Girl With A Pearl Earring; Hilary
and Jackie (Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths);
Kevin Spacey’s Beyond The Sea and Restoration
(Robert Downey Jr). Tigers, co-written with
Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic, the story
of a whistleblower who took on the Nestlé
corporation, will be released in early 2016. In
2016, their production company, Sympathetic
Ink, will produce Olivia’s latest screenplay, The
Grand Sophy, adapted from the Georgette Heyer
novel and developed with BBC Films.
Farah Abushwesha is a
producer and founder of the
BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing
Forum. She is currently producing
The Last Photograph directed by
Danny Huston, an Irish Film
Board After 16 short commemorating the Easter
Rising and a series of female-led comedy sketches
with Emmy award winning producer Stephanie
Laing. Other recent productions include Pressure
with Danny Huston and Matthew Goode and
teen thriller Don’t Hang Up. She is the author
of the Amazon best selling Rocliffe Notes – A
Professional Approach for Screenwriters & WriterDirectors. She is a champion of new screen talent
and has worked on many acclaimed directorial
debuts including BAFTA Breakthrough Brit
Rowan Athale’s The Rise and BAFTA nominee
Tom Harper’s The Scouting Book for Boys, and has
run talks and lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London,
San Diego and Johannesburg.
Mules
by Anthony Khaseria
by Georgia Lester
georgialester@googlemail.com
Talk To The
Animals
Directed by David Freedman
Directed by Susan Jacobson
by Mark Eccleston
Music by Rupert Cross
Music by Rupert Cross
Directed by Sa m Washington
anthonykhaseria@hotmail.co.uk
david@davidfreedman.co.uk
c/o Air Edel
susan@pistachio.co.uk
c/o Air Edel
Three female friends escape their mundane reality for a
summer in Magaluf, but their desperation for adventure
leads them into a drug smuggling ring.
Anthony Khaseria grew up in Windsor
but has lived in Paris, Edinburgh, Brighton and
Oregon, USA. He holds a BA honours degree
in English and an MA in Screenwriting. His
narratives often contain playful elements with
unexpected set-ups and twists and he is currently
developing several feature film scripts, a sitcom
and a short film script. His short Reflections won
the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series and
premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April
2014. No one in his family has worked in the
film industry before but reading film magazines
and scripts as a child inspired him to write for
the screen. Anthony has a part-time admin job
which gives him time to write and has recently
started working as a freelance script reader.
Georgia Lester started writing in the Skins
CAST
Narrator
K ate Okello
Roger Carey Associates
sam@samwashington.com
Music by Rupert Cross
The true shambolic story behind Doctor
Dolittle, the film that bankrupted Fox,
ruined Rex Harrison’s marriage and nearly
killed its heroic producer Arthur P. Jacobs.
For the past 12 years Mark Eccleston has
been a full-time broadcast and print film critic,
working for every major radio and TV network
plus numerous magazines and websites. Before
that was a meandering career including BBC
journalist, producer, world correspondent, travel
reporter, TV presenter and voice over artist.
The writing credits cover TV sketch comedy,
documentaries, an Afternoon Drama The Third
Eye and the Private Eye on BBC Radio 4 and an
award-winning short film. His killer estate
agent thriller Dirty Deeds was long-listed in the
BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum TV
Drama 2014 script call.
CAST
Narrator/Older Mermaid
A my De Bhrun
Nat
Bobby Rainsbury
Narrator/Brennen
Jonathan Tafler
Holly
Jodie Comer
Narrow Road Agency
Marshall
Robert Mccafferty
Clare
Jo Joyner
Gordon & French
Ally
Michael Henratty
Alex
Nathan Whitfield
Jorg Betts
Cassie/Young Mermaid
Sorcha Groundsell
Tilly/Doctor/Drunk Woman
Lia Burge
Wintersons
Sharon Henry Management
Wintersons
Sharon Henry Management
Middleweek Management
Conway van Gelder Grant
Cole
Andrew Barrett
Eamonn Bedford Agency
Lee Morgan Management
Independent Talent Group Ltd
Katie Threlfall Associates
Wintersons
Wintersons
c/o Air Edel
Narrator
MUZZ KHAN
Rex Harrison
Trevor White
Rachel Roberts/Polynesia
Summer Strallen
Anthony Newley/Jip
Willia m Belcha mbers
Cheetah
Alexander Vlahos
Katie Threlfall Associates
Talk to the Animals
CAST
writers room at the age of 18, pretending to
be a cool teenager. Her improvised tales of
drinking and drugs must have impressed because
she remained on the Skins team for five years,
writing four episodes. Georgia became the
youngest ever writer on Hollyoaks at 19 and has
written 20 episodes. She also wrote an episode
of E4’s Youngers. In 2014, Georgia spent three
months in New York, story producing E4’s
structured reality show Taking New York, learning
what ‘some scenes have been constructed for
your entertainment’ actually means.
markeccleston@hotmail.com
Mules
When a teenage boy goes offshore fishing with his
father for the first time, they catch something which
causes a profound change in his beliefs.
The Haul
The Haul