NEXT SCREENWRITING COURSES

BIOPICS AND TRUE STORIES
Wednesday 28 January 
Tutor: Gabriella Apicella

With The Imitation Game and 
The Theory of Everything tipped to win big at the Oscars, how do you write a screenplay based on true events?

THE COMEDY WRITING WEEKEND
Sat 21 - Sun 22 February 
Tutors:  Paul Bassett Davies and Fenella Greenfield

This innovative new course will put your laughs on screen.  You write your sketches, we film and edit them - all in one weekend.

SCREENLAB: 
COMPLETE TREATMENTS
Saturday 28 February
Tutor: Charles Harris

Treatments are essential both for developing and for marketing your scripts - and yet most writers get treatments wrong.

WRITING FOR RADIO:
Movies in the Mind
Sat 7 - Sun 8 MARCH 2015
Tutor:  Paul Bassett Davies

This course covers nearly every aspect of writing for radio: comedy gags, sketches and shows; radio sitcoms and series;  short drama; full-length drama; radio ads - and beyond, to explore all the possibilities of work in the medium.

ARE YOU ELIGIBLE for a discount on our courses.  Find out here.

MONTHLY SCRIPT WORKSHOPS
Join an intimate workshop at the BFI training rooms. Limited to only 6 participants and facilitated by a Euroscript Board Member each session is designed to help you reach the next stage of developing your script.

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EARLYBIRD BOOKINGS
Save up to 25% on selected day and weekend screenwriting courses if you book early.

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Need a scriptwriter?  You've come to the right place.  Find out who's making it here.

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"The advice Euroscript offer is invaluable."
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"Euroscript went the extra mile for us."
For screenwriter training, beginner and advanced, international cinema and TV script development, we were the first screenwriters' workshop in the world (originally London Screenwriters' Workshop). And we’re still the best. 

WHY? Because we’re run by experienced professionals, with contacts across the industry and passionate about great screenwriting. 

Our feedback comes from experience and our course numbers are kept low to ensure personal tuition and advice.

THE EUROSCRIPT SCREENWRITING COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES

Now in its 21st year, the Euroscript Screenwriting Competition has grown the talents of screenwriters from around the world.  We accept entries from all over the world, the deadline is midnight 31st March 2015

The Euroscript Screenwriting competition pursues Euroscript's vision to improve the quality of screenplays available for production - more...

To help you win:  read HOW TO WRITE A WINNING TREATMENT

For more winning help:  read THE MOVIE CHECKLIST

DOWNLOAD our free booklet EUROSCRIPT'S STORY STRUCTURE CHECKLIST
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Some potentially useful funding news from WorldView, a project of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
The WorldView New Genres Fund helps projects reflecting world issues that can connect with new audiences. Grants of up to £20,000 are available for research, development and pilots.
The Worldview Multimedia Fund provides a grant of up to £10,000 for established media producers/journalists to spend up to three months researching programme ideas in the developing world.

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A SCREENWRITER

Why not surprise the significant screenwriter in your life with a Euroscript Gift Voucher? Simple, stylish, and redeemable against any of our screenwriting courses and script feedback services. 

Buy it, download it, give it.  
Full instructions here.

SOME LIKE IT HOT

Put the date in your diary now. 

Monday 2 March at 7.15 is Euroscript's next TableRead and it promises to be the best ever.  

Remind yourself how great the movie was by watching this old promo Fenella made to promote it on LivingTV (as it was then).

Read Fenella's blog about TableReads@Euroscript here.

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BUY THE BOOK

Director of Euroscript, Charles Harris, has put his years of teaching screenwriting into this compelling book. Available online and from all good bookshops - more...

BAFTA AWARD FOR EUROSCRIPTER'S SHORT 

Euroscript screenwriter James Walker donned the producer's hat for Sleeping With the Fishes, about a lonely fishmonger more at ease with her fish than her customers - and was rewarded with a BAFTA for Best Animated Short of 2014.
If you want to watch the film, contact the team via their website for the password.

HORROR SHORT "THE URGE" IS A BIG HIT WITH VIEWERS

Brian Barnes wrote his short film "The Urge" after attending Fenella Greenfield's Write a Short in a Day workshop - and it's now spent a full year as the 8th most watched horror film on IndieFlix. "I'm very proud of my cast and crew, and very grateful to Fenella for her tips," Brian says.

LAST YEAR'S BEST FILMS: A SCRIPT DOCTOR'S CHOICE

Euroscript editor, novelist and screenwriter Andrew Cartmel selects the best of last year's crop here. Look out for Andrew's soon-to-be published "Vinyl Detective" novels - a series about a fanatical record collector turned sleuth.

SUCCESS FOR NIDHI

Euroscripter Nidhi Gupta been shortlisted for the Eastern Edge Film Fund from Film London for her short film script Suburban Dracula, and is also producing for a local production company as well as developing projects with Cambridge TV. Only recently we reported her first writing credit on short film Unfinished Business... More here.

BLOGS TO HELP YOU WRITE

Euroscript's blog.

Paul Bassett Davies's blog.

Charles Harris' Write On blog.

Fenella Greenfield's blog.