VLOGGING – FACEBOOK – GUEST SPEAKERS PROFILES

VIDEO BLOGGER REQUIRED

Screenwriters' Festival is looking for a Vlogger (Video Blogger) to cover this year's Festival. We need someone with experience of Video Blogging and who has the necessary equipment, the technical and editorial know-how for swift daily turnaround throughout the Festival's run. Taking in the sights and sounds, conducting short 'soundbite' interviews with the speakers, guests and organizers - and getting an edited 3-5 minute highlights featurette uploaded to the website each night. See the video blogs from last year (still available to view at the Screenwriters' Festival website) for an indication of what we're playing.

Click here to view the Screenwriters' Festival Video Blog

This role will entail perks!! If you have examples of your Video blog work which we can take a look at then get in touch!

WILL YOU BE OUR FRIEND? – ON FACEBOOK!

Screenwriters' Festival now has a 'group' page on the popular social networking site Facebook and we're looking to establish a healthy membership as soon as we can. If you're a Facebook user then do please join our gang and do also invite those on your own friends lists to do likewise. We've already uploaded a clutch of photos and video-blogs from last year's Festival and (in addition to these ongoing e-bulletins) we'll be posting the very latest programme updates to our Facebook group.

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GUEST SPEAKER PROFILES

This week we are looking at award winning writers and playwrights Christopher Hampton and Peter Morgan

SPEAKER PROFILE #09 - Christopher Hampton Christopher Hampton's plays, musicals and translations have garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award, while prizes for his film and television work include an Oscar, two BAFTAs and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Plays include 'The Talking Cure', 'White Chameleon', 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and 'Total Eclipse'. He wrote the book and lyrics (with Don Black) for the musicals 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Dracula' and the libretto for the Philip Glass operas 'Waiting For The Barbarians' and 'Appomattox'. His screenplays include 'The Quiet American', 'Mary Reilly', 'Dangerous Liaisons', 'Imagining Argentina' and the recent 'Atonement', which won both the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for best Picture.

SPEAKER PROFILE #10 - Peter Morgan Peter’s credits include scripts for Stephen Frears' 'The Queen', Kevin MacDonald's 'The Last King of Scotland', the west end play 'Frost/Nixon' (which is currently receiving a big screen makeover), and the forthcoming adaptation of the Philipa Gregory novel 'The Other Boleyn Girl'. Prior to his work on 'The Queen', Peter scripted the TV drama 'The Deal' about the 'agreement' between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he is currently working not only on big screen adaptation of his 2002 TV series 'The Jury' but also on a follow-up to 'The Queen' which will focus on the relationship between Tony Bair and his American counterparts Clinton and Bush.