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A brief SWF view of Libraries...Libraries are funny things, they're either stuffy and dusty - with elderly people shuffling about making sure that Lord Byron is not in the 'L's - or they're weird half-way houses between a council reception and a job centre where job hunters sit and peruse the employment pages of the local rag. We like to think of ours as like the one at the beginning of Ghostbusters...
Script Library "Dare to dream!" that's our motto! And it may be yours too! The Screenwriters' Festival is the Magic Kingdom of screen industry events. A place, somewhere over the rainbow, where dreams come true and careers are made and even re-made thanks to the networking opportunities provided by the Festival. This year we fling open for the first time, the shiny, bullet-proof, wipe-clean doors of the Script Library, a virtual wonderland into which all delegates are entitled to upload their taglines, synopses and the first ten pages of their scripts. In so doing they place themselves and their work very much in the shop window, to tantalise and intrigue and perhaps even to thoroughly sate the appetites of those casually browsing for something that might take their fancy! Delegates uploading to the library will of course provide their contact details so that interested parties can get in touch directly with the writer(s) responsible. The Library has been set up as yet another sensational facility to assist Festival-goers in connecting and networking. No rights or ownership are surrendered and any negotiations that might take place between writers and interested parties are entirely a matter for those concerned. The Screenwriters' Festival simply administrates the library as a platform from which writers can achieve real exposure for their work and directly to a wide range of industry personnel who are keen to see it. |
Protecting Your Work:
We recommend, for your own peace of mind that, prior to uploading your work to the library, you formally register your script, to protect your copyright. As you will doubtless already know, while a script can be copyrighted, an idea cannot, and with that in mind we have introduced measures to ensure you will know who is reading your script.
Every time somebody downloads your script you will receive an automatic email notifying you of the name and delegate number of the person who has downloaded your work. This will ensure that you will be aware at all times of who has accessed your work and you can, if you wish, cross refer the name and number with the details of all delegates listed in the main Delegate List.
Do be sure to include your own details on the title page of your work and in the form when uploading.
Before you head off to the Library you will have to have purchased a ticket to the Festival.