Sole Purpose
Productions
presents
A Full Day Film or TV
Script Workshop
With Margo Harkin and Patricia Byrne
Saturday 3rd
March 2012
A fantastic opportunity
for local writers!
Sole
Purpose Productions will run a full day workshop on one full length film or TV
script. This will be facilitated by film maker Margo Harkin and convened by
Patricia Byrne on Saturday 3rd March 2012, 10am – 4.30pm, in the Playhouse. Only one script from one writer
is chosen for the day. Your script will be stood up by professional actors
associated with Sole Purpose Productions.
Margo
Harkin is the Producer of Besom Productions in Derry, Northern Ireland and has
worked in the film and television business as a Company Manager and as an award
winning Producer/Director since 1984. Her multi award winning first drama Hush-A-Bye-Baby
has been distributed internationally and has been widely anthologised. Her
recent documentary Bloody Sunday -A Derry Diary was nominated in the
Best Documentary category for the Prix Europa 2007
and the 2008 IFTAs. Her feature documentary Waveriders who the Audience Award on its first
screening at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in February 2008.
If
you are working on a full length film or TV script and have a full first draft,
or nearly full draft, then you can take part. We can only work with one script,
so each script will go through a process of discussion with Margo to decide
which submission to work with.
If
you would like to be considered, please send us:
Deadline
for submission is Saturday 18th February 2012. The cost of the
workshop is £90. If there is a difficulty in covering the cost then contact us
and we can discuss it further. Email your script, overview, character
descriptions and contact details to solepurpose@mac.com
or you can post it to Sole Purpose Productions, The Playhouse, Artillery
Street, Derry Londonderry, BT48 6RG.
Funded
by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Small Lottery Grants