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Hollywood script coach Jen Grisanti is running three standout sessions for us at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, as well as a whole day

In a film world obsessed with structure, there was something refreshingly honest about John Yorke standing up in front of a room full

Slots confirmed for the Script Surgery at LondonSWF There are still a few people we are waiting on to confirm their slots, but

Realism, that thing that gives drama it’s impact, often involves writers going to a source or special consultant to enrich the content of

Sit-Coms are, love ’em or hate ’em, a lasting style of comedy and one in which, if you’re fortunate enough to be good

There’s not a lot of talking going on, even from Ted Tally, as Silence of the Lambs plays on screen gripping a room

In a star studded (Ted Tally and Joel Schumacher sat next to one another in the front row counts) and joyous event 2014

Adapting novels into screenplay is something many screenwriters balk at, whether wanting to focus on their own stories exclusively or finding the process

Script consultant and editor Pilar Alessandra took us on a whirlwind hour of screenwriting craft to analyse screenplay and see how our choices,

With a formidable body of work, William Nicholson joined us to share some of his experience, in his own words, “to try and

Once again sitting down with Joel Schumacher (do I make that sound like there’s not a few hundred people in the room?) to

Watching one of my favourite films, The Lost Boys as Joel Schumacher himself sits in the room talking about it’s making was for

Development consultant and script editor Ludo is, he tells us more of a reader than a writer. And in the scripts he reads

Veteran Writer Tony Jordan joined us to discuss the span of his career and the things he’s learned along the way. Beginning at

As Chris Jones opens the 2014 London Screenwriters’ Festival I once again begin to bring you just a small portion of the seminars,

It’s at this time each year that I pack some stuff into my camera bag and head of to live tweet and to

We have some exciting news about the London Screenwriters’ Festival this year. We are running a number of new initiatives and can finally

Mad Men writer and producer Lisa Albert in conversation with Mary Kate O Flanagan took us in depth though the scripting process as

It was heartening to hear Bob Schultz say at the beginning of his interview with Frank Spotnitz that he’s been to many screenwriters’

Roland Moore, Chris Hill, Mark Pallis and Kevin Hood joined Stephen May for a discussion of writing period drama, and whether it’s a staple

“I’m a great believer in the front row.” Says one delegate as the room fills up for this seminar on TV writing. Just

Stephen Follows interviewing Gareth Unwin and Lisa Bryer is quite the collection of Producer talent to have on one stage. What is the

In Another corner of Herringham Hall at LSF is The Big Idea Bookstore, with a huge array of books, many of which get

If you’re looking to improve the strength of your writer’s voice then stopping by The Writers Guild of Great Britain station in a

Psychiatrist Dr. Raj Persaud is both an accomplished and entertaining speaker and also knows an intriguing amount about writers. For instance, he tells

When an Oscar winning screenwriter walks into a room and says, this is not going to be about me and what I want

In the earlier part of his career he took some rejection and gave up writing himself as he had no discipline for it

The festival opening is a part of the festival that some people skip, thinking it’s not a ‘learning’ part of the festival. Indeed,