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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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Tag Archives: filmmaking
Arjun & Alison: the trailer is out!
Been waiting all year for this, and it’s finally here. The trailer for Arjun & Alison, the indie feature film I was hired to script in February 2010, worked on all that year and saw shoot in Birmingham last November. It’s been in a Mumbai edit suite most of this year and this is the first glimpse of what the film might actually look like. (The security guy with his back to camera is me, by the way).
It’s a marathon, not a sprint…
I know, I know. I’ve been pretty quiet this last year. Hardly a blog to my name and my hits have plummeted (I’m still amazed so many of you keep coming back to look, if I’m honest). But there’s a reason. And the reason is that, rather than writing about screenwriting, I thought I’d actually do some. And last week something very special happened. Yes, fifteen years of hard, largely unpaid work finally came to fruition, and my first feature …
Networking is rather like making love to a beautiful woman…
August is probably the wrong month to network seeing as every producer I’m talking to is buggering off to find some sun, but I’m nothing if not perverse, so it’s been a bit of a cracking fortnight on the schmoozing front. But I realise that most screenwriters would rather hack off a toe than go out and network, so I thought I’d talk about how to make it seem less painful. Last week I took part in a frantic day …
Writers don’t mean shit
I’ve noticed a growing militancy in screenwriters since the WGA strike. Not least in myself. It seems we are absolutely fucked off to the back teeth with our status in this industry as little more than work experience fluffers (excuse my vulgarity, but this industry makes me feel like a whore sometimes). A couple of incidents this week have added to the humiliation. The nominations for the Emmys were announced and much media furore ensued. I read all about it on Digital Spy …
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 …
