Our enthusiastic team combines a wealth of professional skills and experience as writers, script editors, producers and directors. All are working within the industry, and many have additional teaching and guidance qualifications.
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Gabriella Apicella
James Bartlett
Paul Bassett Davies
Clarissa Caleo-Green
Paul Gallagher
Fenella Greenfield
Charles Harris
Ian Long
Kevan Tidy
Matt Tromans
Anne Woods
Gabriella Apicella
Gabriella Apicella is a freelance writer who has recently had short films, experimental theatre pieces and prose for an art installation commissioned. She is Co-Founder of the UnderWire Festivals which, with support from WFTV, BEV and Euroscript aims to promote the raw talent of women in the film industry. Gabriella teaches Screenwriting, Creative Writing and Literacy at organisations including Birkbeck College and the Lyric Theatre, and also runs the monthly fiction event, Storytails.
James Bartlett
James Bartlett is a writer and journalist living in Los Angeles. He is also a story analyst for Sundance, National Geographic Films, New Regency, UCLA and the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, as well as several regional funders in the UK and Ireland.
He began his career working in film production and music licensing and moved to Belfast in 1999, where he received funding on two feature projects and worked for ARISTA Development. In Los Angeles he co-edited and wrote the nationally-distributed FLM Magazine for Landmark Theatres, and currently writes for magazines, newspapers and websites worldwide and is the Hollywood reporter for JackFM radio in Oxfordshire. If you are in LA and wish to use James as a one-on-one script consultant or, if you are writing a feature-length script targeted at the American market and would like to use James as your script editor, click here.
Paul Bassett Davies is a writer, director and actor. He founded the Crystal Theatre, whose pioneering multimedia work was acclaimed in Britain and Europe. He created a series of one-man shows, two of which were Perrier Award finalists at the Edinburgh Festival. Other shows combined live performance with video and other media to create innovative theatrical experiments.
Radio and television credits include: Spitting Image, Smith and Jones, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrot and many more. He had his own series with Jeremy Hardy, and produced Sony Award winning BBC radio series Do Go On, which he wrote with Griff Rhys Jones and Graeme Garden using improvisation to create the scripts. He wrote the screenplay for The Magic Roundabout film and has a feature film in production based on comic book legends The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
Clarissa Caleo-Green
With over 14 years experience in development, finance, production, festivals and exhibition Clarissa has a solid understanding of the UK film industry. As Project Co-ordinator at the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund for 9 years, Clarissa oversaw the administration of and provided script notes for over 60 films from finance to delivery, including The King’s Speech, Brighton Rock, Mike Leigh’s last three films and John McDonagh’s The Guard.
Before her time at the Film Council, Clarissa was administrator and script reader for the Oscar Moore Foundation, run by Screen International and set up to support European script writing talent. For the past two years she has been assessing applications for The Bureau Film Company’s Save Our Scripts scheme and working as a freelance script consultant.
Paul Gallagher
Paul is a writer and script consultant. He set up Euroscript EU MEDIA programme [CEO 96-02], developing and marketing feature film scripts Little Ashes, DuCain’s Boys, Mermaids & Money Troubles, Dark Rosaleen, Metro and Heart and Soul, all optioned or produced. Short stories, poetry and book published 2009 Dancing in the Waves [Mer]. Editor of Screenwriter magazine [90-02], columnist for magazines: Savvy, Screenwriter, Filmwaves.
Paul runs the MA Screenwriting, Birkbeck College, London University. He has taught at London Film School; run workshops in Greece, Portugal, France; delivered talks at International Festivals: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, London, Lisbon; and sat on International Film Festival juries in Portugal and the UK.
Fenella Greenfield
Fenella Greenfield was a trustee of the Screenwriters' Workshop for many years, helping to launch Euroscript as an SW European initiative. She has worked as both script editor and tutor for both organisations. She has written broadcast scripts for radio and television. She’s a TV promo director and has won awards both here and in the States for her work. Read a review in Time Out about her course the Absolute Beginners' Guide to How to Write a Screenplay.
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Charles Harris
Charles Harris is an writer-director who has worked with top names in cinema and TV, from James Stewart to Alexei Sayle. His first script was optioned in Hollywood and he continues to write and direct original and commissioned scripts, winning international awards for his work.
As consultant, Charles has worked with professional writers from all over the world, and lectured at international film festivals, universities and film schools. He is also a qualified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Master Hypnotist.
He publishes regular articles about screenwriting in his ScreenLab blog
Read a Scriptwriter Magazine review of one of Charles Harris's workshops.
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Ian Long
Ian is a writer, teacher, script editor and story consultant whose recent writing projects include an epic animated feature based on Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and a contemporary psychological thriller. Both are slated for imminent production. Ian has recently written and produced his own short film.
He has worked as a consultant for the UK Film Council's Premiere and New Cinema Funds, the First Film Foundation, the Script Factory and many other bodies and producers. He is currently overseeing a horror feature to be shot on location in Italy, developing a science fiction feature with a leading director and working on a collection of short stories.
Kevan Tidy
Kevan has many years of practical experience of the creative industries, first as a songwriter and musician and then as a specialist entertainment and intellectual property lawyer. His main aim as a lawyer is to ensure that creatives get a fair deal. He has worked as an in-house lawyer for Scottish TV and for several of the top national law firms.
He was also one of the founders of the International Entertainment Division of Arthur Andersen, the largest legal practice in the world. For the past five years he has run his own specialist law firm. He can be contacted at fromkevan@yahoo.co.uk and will be pleased to answer questions on copyright and other forms of intellectual property, media and entertainment law, how to read contracts and the pros and cons of setting up of companies.
Matt Tromans
Matt Tromans is a writer, director and producer with a burgeoning list of credits on both commercially and critically successful feature films. After spending many years in Hollywood working with two time Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte, he recently returned to Europe where he continues to write, direct and develop high profile projects.
His first film as a producer ‘Off The Black’, in association with Forensic Films NYC (Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Raising Victor Vargas), premiered strongly at the Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently picked up for Theatrical Distribution by Think Film. His most recent film as a producer starred Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting, Black Hawk Down), Dina Korzun (Last Resort, Forty Shades of Blue) and Nutsa Kukhianidze (Good Thief) and has recently been selected as Georgia’s official entry for the best foreign language category at the Academy Awards.
Matt has worked closely with internationally renowned writers and directors including Ang Lee, Neil Jordan and Olivier Assayas. He is an experienced reader and evaluator of scripts and believes strongly that an effective film begins with a good script. His debut short film as a writer/ director will shortly begin screening at major international film festivals where it is expected to perform strongly.
Anne Woods
Anne Woods is a professional screenwriter with her own production company and an inspirational and highly experienced script consultant. She worked for several years at the BBC and has script edited hundreds of projects for independent production companies in the UK and Europe.
As a director of Euroscript, she has taught on many residential workshops and offers personal mentoring and consultancy. She currently has a low budget feature film in production and is working on her PhD undertaking research into the output of BBC Films.
