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Thank you to the panel
of industry experts:
Alan McKenna
Camille Gatin
Celine Coulson
Cynthia De Souza
Dan Hubbard
Emma Norton
Georgina Carrigan
James Floyd
Jean Kitson
Jon Croker
Katie Goodson-Thomas
Lauren Dark
Len Rowles
Mady Niel
Max Pirkis
Michael Berliner
Susan Jacobson
Tessa Inklaer
Zam Salim
BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include:
Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian
Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell,
Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron
McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates,
Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell,
Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca O'Brien,
Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop
and Dave Spikey.
BAFTA ROCLIFFE
NEW WRITING FORUM
with screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI
WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2O14 // BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN
Moderator and Rocliffe Producer
FARAH ABUSHWESHA
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BAFTA Producer
JULIA CARRUTHERS
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Casting
L AURA DICKENS
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Artwork
CARLO CRESCINI
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Composers courtesy of
CHANTELLE WOODNUT, Air Edel
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Projection
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The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum, now in its
fifteenth year, is a platform for new writing and a networking
event. Three script extracts from yet-to-be-commissioned
writers are selected by an industry panel from an open call out.
Award-winning screenwriter
JULIETTE TOWHIDI read Modern
Languages at Oxford University
before training as a journalist
with Reuters news agency.
Juliette then worked as a script
editor in Paris and London for Canal+ and
Roman Polanski before turning to screenwriting
full-time. Juliette credits include the original
feature Calendar Girls, starring the Academy and
BAFTA-winning Helen Mirren, which went
on to win the Golden Wave Screenplay Award
at Bordeaux Festival of Women in Film in 2004.
Juliette recently wrote the adaptation of Vera
Brittain’s First World War memoir, Testament of
Youth and Love, Rosie. Juliette has a number of
feature films in development including Notting
Hill Carnival, The Brontes and The Ice Palace,
whilst alsocontinuing to write the original BBC
series Death Comes to Pemberley.
FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a
writer, producer and founder
of the BAFTA Rocliffe New
Writing Forums. She is the
author of Rocliffe Notes – A
Professional Approach for Screenwriters & WriterDirectors. She has worked in film production for
many years; forthcoming productions include
Pressure with Danny Huston and Matthew
Goode, Suite Francaise with Michelle Williams
and Kristen Scott Thomas, and teen thriller
Don’t Hang Up. She is a champion of new
screen talent and has worked on many acclaimed
directorial debuts including Rowan Athale’s
The Rise and BAFTA nominee Tom Harper’s
The Scouting Book for Boys, and has run talks and
lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London, San Diego
and Johannesburg.
THE POINT OF YOU
by CAROLINE CARVER
by KITTY PERCY
Directed by SUSAN JACOBSON
Directed by ALEXANDRA BOYD
Music by DR STEPHEN BAYSTED c/o Air Edel
Music by MARCOS DÕCRUZE
A vulnerable young mother must appease the spirit
of the man she killed in order to save her daughter.
A forensic observation of a wedding that goes horribly
wrong, witnessed through the different but connected
perspectives of the bride, her sister and their mother.
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c/o Air Edel
Kitty Percy is a recent graduate of the
University of the Arts London Screenwriting
MA. In recent years she has worked as a freelance
writer on magazines and in advertising. Her
broadcast credits include two short films and a
radio play. Before this she was a set dresser for
films and TV commercials. Kitty’s father worked
in animation, so the language of film and its
power as a storytelling medium has always been
present in her life.
by NAT LUURTSEMA
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Directed by SA M WASHINGTON
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Music by GRANT OLDING c/o Air Edel
The morning after a house party Annie wakes up
with a hangover, no memory of the night before
and, on her sofa, the corpse of the girl who stole
her boyfriend.
Emma Engers Associates, 020 7278 9980
Daniel
ABUBAK AR SALIM
Katie Threlfall Associates, 020 8879 0493
Becky
HOLLY AUGUSTINE
Narrator
ROBYN HOEDEMAKER
Michael Ford, DA A, 020 7255 6123
CAST
CAST
Bella
JESSICA CLAIRE
Nancy Hudson Associates, 020 7499 5548
Gramma
CAROLINE WILDI
RK A Talent, 020 7287 6934
A & J Artists, 020 8342 0542
Waring & McKenna, 020 7836 9222
Jane Lehrer Associates, 020 7435 9118
CAST
Liz
JANE LEANEY
Steve
ADA M BURTON
Em
JOANNE KING
Sally Hope Associates, 020 7613 5353
Narrator
SA MMY KISSIN
Stanton Davidson Associates, 020 7581 3388
Annie
SIRINE SABA
Scott Marshall Partners, 020 7637 4623
Gwyneth
LU CORFIELD
Belinda Wright, CDA, 020 7397 2749
Inspector Marin
A MERJIT DEU
United Agents, 020 3214 0800
Narrator
JEMMA CHURCHILL
RBM, 020 7976 6021
AnnieÕs Got Body Issues
Archie
HONOR KNEAFSEY
Nat Luurtsema is a BAFTA-nominated
screenwriter, stand-up, sketch writer and
author. Writer of Island Queen,
BAFTAnominated in 2014, Best Comedy: European
Independent Film Festival, and Official
Selection: London Short Film Festival
2013.
“My favourite… an excellent, laidback
piece” – Peter Bradshaw’s BAFTA round-up,
The Guardian. Star of sketch group Jigsaw
(two Radio 4 series, three sell-out Edinburgh
runs).
“Full-pelt sketch comedy from
performers who radiate enjoyment and ease
with a crowd” – Brian Logan, The Guardian.
Nat’s memoir, Cuckoo In The Nest (Hodder
and Stoughton) was Sunday Express Book
Of The Year.
The Point of You
Caroline Carver started writing short films
and wrote and produced the film You, Me and
Captain Longbridge, which went on to be officially
selected for twelve festivals and won three. She
recently won a competition for a short film made
by Spidervision productions, based on India’s
involvement in World War 1.
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ANNIEÕS GOT
BODY ISSUES
The WaterÕs Deep
THE WATERÕS DEEP