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  by ALRA 1 month ago

  This year, we are holding ALRA’s first Short Film Script Competition. We are looking for new, innovative writers to submit ten minute film scripts. All shortlisted films will be judged by a panel of experts – including professional screen writer, Brian Fillis and the TV director, Andy Hay.
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  by vanessa 7 months ago

  Calling all Screenwriters:
  The London Screenwriters’ Festival is back from the 28th – 30th of October 2011!
  
  Featuring:
  
  • Seminars, panels and workshops from leading industry professionals - “Love Actually’s” Duncan Kenworthy, ITV commissioner Elaine Bedell, writer Ashley Pharoah, Filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood; BBC’s Head of Drama Commissioning, Ben Stephenson, and many, many, many, many more!
  http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/ehome/LSF2011/speakers/?&
  
  • Speed Pitching! – pitch your script to key industry Producers, Agents and Commissioners. Last year many successful writers found agents- and one lucky writer got a $20million Hollywood Film deal (extremely limited places left - get your ticket asap)
  http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/ehome/LSF2011/speed-pitching
  
  • Take part in our ONE MINUTE Film & Script Competition based on the UK riots last month. Win cash and have your film judged by Director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Identity) and other leading industry professionals:
  http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/ehome/LSF2011/competitions/
  
  • Network with 400 other writers, 100 speakers and 80 Speed Pitching panelists!
  
  For more information and to buy a ticket hear to to www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com and to get 10% off! Just enter (VANESSAMAYFIELD) in the discount code box!
  
  I'm gonna be there, would be great to meet you there too!
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  by mike 2 years ago

  The 'chattering classes' read the Guardian, I believe, and were at one time referred to as 'the great and the good' I was under the impression that these were the classes that decide things like what TV programmes to watch etc. Reviewers, critics, journalists etc etc,
  (Jamie Oliver lives in Promrose Hill.)
  Most people on Word Cloud probably don't live in London so there aren't many entries on this post. I don't really live in London but visit occasionally and go there to work.
  I have tried to play the blues on the piano but cannot manage it. i am happier with Bach because the left hand and the right hand tend to do the same thing = aprt from trills etc, This does not seem to be the case with the blues where the left hand keeps up the rhythm and the right goes all over the place. Boogie Woogie is a nightmare. I tried to play a rag once and the only recorded version i could find was played by someone called Winnifred Atwell. Boy, can she boogie! I looked her up and she had been a top ten person in the fifties - not for Boogie Woogie. A forgotten person but I am sure she could tell that person who does pop progammes late at night and wears suits a bit like a penguin.
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  by Wrathnar the Unreasonable 2 years ago

  Cheek! I'm from a Saaf Lundn estate! Mind you, I am scum, so you may have a point. Wots the chattering classes, then?
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  by mike 2 years ago

  I am a suburbanite but have an unfulfilled wish to move from the lawn-mowing classes to the chattering classes. This might only be a sideways move, or an act of imagination - though In a practical sense, money is the main factor. However, I would feel a bit of an imposter if I moved to a basement flat in Hampstead without my 'boarding pass' of a best-selling novel,
  I had been exploring St John's Wood area and Primrose Hill last year, and must confess a certain disappointment. I am sure the interiors of the service flats in Primrose Hill are luxuriously appointed but the exteriors resemble a South london council estate. Similar houses to those in the 'Victorian' part of Primrose Hill can be bought in Chislehurst for a fraction of the price - but location is all!
  There had been a family background of journalism and a great, great grandfather lived in the area. He died in 'relative poverty' (so says the DNB) I checked the address in St johns Wood - St John's Terrace. At the time, the reisidents had been plumbers,etc. What now? (It is the only early Victorian Terrace left in St Jon's Wood.
  Mike
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  by Wrathnar the Unreasonable 2 years ago

  No activity for 10 months? This is London, England we're talking about, right? Not London, Arkansaw?
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  by Cory Jones 3 years ago

  I'll be watching closely but the word on the wind is that you could well be right.
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  by Kartik 3 years ago

  Cory welcome aboard. I saw from your profile that you also have Hesse and Sidhartha in your list. Would be great to chat to you sometime about your plot and storyline.
  I am really disappointed that I wont be there for the protests, but I hope there is no trouble - reports seem to indicate that things could turn quite nasty.
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  by Cory Jones 3 years ago

  As a London writer felt obliged to join, sounds morbid but I'm writing a book set against the backdrop of economic/social meltdown too, have high hopes for the G20 protests. Might try to be there on Aprils Fool Day when a lot of protest seems to be planned.
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  by Kartik 3 years ago

  Hi Sumayya - Not going to be in town when that happens unfortunately. Seems like lots of interesting events are happening while I am away. I was just reading about the G20 protests that are being planned in April, would have been good to actually observe what happens first hand (I have just started writing a novel set against the backdrop of the economic meltdown) but then again I worry that this will all get really quite violent and out of hand. Anyone planning to attend these protests?