Philippa Fordham
Pilippa Fordham, comedienne and Euroscript member, launched her new radio comedy series, the Fordham & Lipson Show, commissioned by the BBC following the double-act's Edinburgh success and broadcast on Radio 4 November and December 2007.
Philippa Fordham and Simon Lipson first performed their comedy double-act in 2001 at the Soho Theatre. Philippa first trained as an actress and later performed in a range of comedy shows as well as various TV and radio programmes such as People Like Us on BBC2 and the movie 'Johny English'. Simon was a stand up comedian and impressionist who had appeared on DeadRingers on Radio 4, The Stand Up Show on BBC1 and Celebrity Squares on ITV.
Philippa and Simon took their sketch show, He Barks She Bites, to theEdinburgh Festival in 2005 where they were nominated for the prestigious Double Act Award and subsequently commissioned to write and perform in their own series.
They were also asked to write a sitcom for BBC1 TV and have several projects in development.
Greg Loftin
Member Greg Loftin's first feature Saxon was selected for its World Festival Premiere by the 2007 Edinburgh Film Festival.
Greg Loftin runs his own video production company First Field, and has been writing original scripts and directing shorts since graduating with first class honours from Central St Martin's (MA in Independent Film and Video) and King Alfred's College (BA Hons in Drama, Theatre and TV Studies). His short Don Juan premiered at the Santander Film Festival.
Saxon, produced by Elise Valmorbida, is Greg's first feature film as writer and director, completed following many years of script development.
Judy Upton
Former Euroscript competition winner, playwright and screenwriter, Judy Upton, from Shoreham on Sea, West Sussex, scooped another prize in the national 'Make Your Mark in Film' scriptwriting competition with her entry ‘My Imprisoned Heart’.
Singled out by judges as a clear favourite, Judy was awarded £3,000 and will see her film put into production and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007.
She has also been awarded a Research and Development Grant 2007 from PAWS (Public Awareness Of Science & Engineering) to develop her TV series idea 'Tooth And Claw' with Film & General.
Judy has been writing scripts since she was in her twenties and has seen them performed at theatres including London’s Royal Court and the Birmingham Repertory theatre; her work has also been aired on BBC Radio 4. Her play, ‘Ashes and Sand’ was the winner of the George Devine Award and turned into a film starring Nick Moran.
Nicola Mills
Joint 2nd Prize, 'Greengrass' Nicola Mills. After working as a designer director in the world of Channel Identities, and winning awards with her re-brand of the BBC News, Nicola joined the National Film and Television School in 2004. Her graduation film The Toughest Girl in the World has been sreened at various festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, as well as travelling the world with Future shorts.
She has just finished shooting The Other Me, a surreal black comedy, written by Mark Cowling and the winner of the British Short Screenplay Competition 2005, which is now in post-production.
Nicola is now working on a draft of ‘Greengrass’, second prize winner in the Euroscript 2007 screen story competition, and another feature-length screenplay, ‘Digging for Marni’, a surreal comedy about a woman who has to travel to India to rescue her errant sister from burying herself alive in the name of world peace. She was asked to apply for the prestigious Sundance Film-makers award and submitted this project. Nicola has been developing this script on the Binger Film Lab Script Development Programme in Amsterdam from September 2007 to February 2008.
