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ACW announces second year of Individual Screenwriters Awards. |
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The aim of the scheme is to offer sums of funding in order to buy time for would-be screenwriters to write a feature-length script of any genre - including animation - aimed at a cinema audience. It is intended that the funding, up to £5,000 per project, is used to develop a project from treatment stage to revised first draft. The closing date for applications to the scheme is 18th December 2002, and shortlisted candidates (to be informed by end of January 2003) will be expected to participate in workshop events in February before a final decision is made in March. The scheme is open to anyone, whether first time writers or more experienced screenwriters, who wish to develop a project before taking it to potential producers. One of last year's chosen projects - Julian Griffiths' Flinch - will be the subject of a Script Factory reading at the Sgrîn organized Focus on Film conference, to be held at Cardiff’s Coal Exchange on Thursday this week. Further Details for interested individuals: Sgrîn/ACW Lottery film funding is committed to the on-going development of an indigenous film industry and primarily seeks to achieve this by supporting production companies based in Wales in both development and production projects. However, Sgrîn/ACW is keen to ensure that writers who have promising projects, in an early stage of development and without a producer attached, are given the opportunity to receive financial support to develop those projects further, facilitating the future attachment of a producer. This scheme aims to: 1. Offer an increased opportunity to identify and nurture new talent. 2. Offer more established writers an opportunity to complete a draft screenplay before entering negotiations with a production company. 3. Increase the number of screenplays being developed, with a view to providing an extended seedbed from which the Welsh production industry may benefit. 4. Provide opportunities for writers born or resident in Wales or who are developing projects with clear cultural relevance to Wales. Individuals can apply for this scheme if: · They wish to develop a feature length film screenplay (fiction, documentary, animation or experimental) from a 12-page treatment, for theatrical release and / or showing in other public places, such as at film festivals. · Their project is capable of qualifying as British under the terms of Schedule 1 of the Films Act 1985, amended 1999. This requires that the film-maker is resident in a EC member state or is a commonwealth citizen, or has a company registered in a member state. Please note: Work that has already been completed cannot be funded, neither can funding be offered to individuals currently in full time education. Funding is intended for projects at treatment stage only, and first draft scripts or more developed work cannot be considered. |
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Monday, November 18, 2002 |
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