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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone... read more
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems... read more
Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Hello, do you have a tax shelter?
How wannabe film producers get their training with EAVE Dentists, lawyers and electricians can all go to college to be trained in their job. In the film world you can even go to directing school or a writing academy. But no one teaches you how to be a film producer. It’s just something you learn to do when you balls it up as a director, isn’t it? Okay, that’s a joke, but the point remains that you can do film …
A little bit of soap…
Soap operas are the biggest employers of scriptwriters on the market, they provide regular, well-paid work for writers, are widely acknowledged to be the perfect training ground for any scriptwriter, and they reach audiences that most movies can only dream of. So why does every wannabe scriptwriter on the block turn their nose up at soaps and dream about writing the next British blockbuster? Maybe it’s a snobbish thing. British scriptwriting has always had a problem shaking off the deadly …
