Euroscript is delighted to announce the winner of its Screen Story Competition 2008.

This Other Eden by Jessica Davidson is a gripping thriller that moves between a wild, almost magic realist Northumbrian landscape and the grim urban world of the international sex trade.

The judges were impressed with the coherence of the story, the highly distinctive settings, the depth of characterisation and the high standard of the writing.

Jessica wins a full development programme which includes script-editing mentoring through three full drafts of the script and, if the script is sufficiently developed

by the end of the process, its promotion to the market.

In second place, Laptop by David Varela, was the only animated film to reach the shortlist.

The judges were sold by the tight, well structured plot as well as the richly imaginative animated world in which the story takes place.

David wins a Full Script Report on his script.

Three Bullet Point script reports are awarded to the three runners up:

The Sea Man by Olga Rozanova
The Wedding Witch by Gilli Moorhawk
Project Diamond by Linda Wilkinson

Shortlisted:

Runners by Massimiliano Sappa
A Blue Forest by Marcus Campbell
Deborah by C M Mooney
The Trapdoor Spider by Patrick Leo Nash
Mike Lansky's Torment by Jeff Notton

For further details contact:
competition@euroscript.co.uk
or telephone:  07958 244 656

The winners of 2007's Screen Story Competiton were announced at the Cheltenham Screenwriters' Festival in July 2007

First Prize
The Lost and Found by Alexis Roberts

Joint Second Prize
Greengrass by Nicola Mills
The Scent of Jasmine by Janet Bridge and Karen Kallis

Third Prize
Cunnedda's Land by Ian Craine
The Watermarks by Jo Lewis

Click here to read an interview with Paul Sellars, a past winner who has completed the Euroscript development programme.

Previous Winners

2005
Paul Sellars with 'The Judas Boy'. 

2004
Mike Barnes with 'Dead Red'

2003
Faisal-Azam Qureshi with 'Bright Darkness'

2002
Brendan Foley with 'Island Wedding'

2001
Marcella Forster with ‘Dark Rosaleen’ (in development with 4Way Films and Independent Artists)

2000
Philippa Goslett with 'Little Ashes'.  Soon to be released.  Keep track of it here.