TIME-TRAVEL ROMCOM, STAG WEEKEND HORROR AND INUIT EPIC TOP THIS YEAR'S EUROSCRIPT SCREEN STORY COMPETITION WINNERS.

The 17th Euroscript Screen Story Competition has been won by Sonya Desai with her romantic comedy 'Mean Time' in which a girl has to fight her future self to win back the man she loves.  In joint second place are Jason Parry with 'Stag' about a stag weekend that goes terrifyingly wrong and Géraldine Vessière's 'Two Old Women', an epic Alaskan tale based on Inuit myth. Winners of the annual competition win the chance for their scripts to be successfully developed into cinema films.

Two further writers came joint fourth -  Margaret Folarin with 'White Wedding' and Hari Patience with 'The Fixer' - they win Bullet Point Reports on any feature-length script of their choice.

Runners up 2010

Philip Grant
The Hotter it Gets

Rachel Macaulay
The Wedding

Matthew Redmond
Regret

Caroline Clark Gebbie
Daddy Won’t Kill You

Tylie Cox
To Edith

Tom Murphy
Foot Soldiers

Mark Conway
Henry

Dries Coomans
Man Hunt

James Walker
When Tigers Sleep

Matthew Houghton
As the World Can Show

Ery Nzaramba
Dambudzo:  The Troubled One

Winner 2009

Carla Grauls
Superstition

Runners up 2009

Mark Conway
The Devil's Doctor

Will Jewell
The Accident Club

Paul Valnay
This is Not My Beautiful Wife

Ian Masters
Rouge Noir

Winner 2008 

Jessica Davidson with 'This Other Eden'

2007

Alexis Roberts with 'The Lost and Found'

2006

Paul Sellars with 'The Judas Boy'. 

2005

Mike Barnes with 'Dead Red'

2004

Faisal-Azam Qureshi with 'Bright Darkness'

2003

Brendan Foley with 'Island Wedding'

2002

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

2001

David Baboulene with 'Love Life'.

2000

Philippa Goslett with 'Little Ashes'.  A Spanish-British movie which examines the fraught relationships between Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, is now on release, having premiered at Raindance in 2008.  Screenwriter  Philippa Goslett developed the script with Euroscript, having won Euroscript's 2000 Screen Story competition.  It's directed by the acclaimed director Paul Morrison who also shot the superb Wondrous Oblivion; and stars, among others, Robert Pattinson, who caused such a stir in Twilight.

Click below to read some reviews:

Marie Claire

Blitz Feed

Filmfestivals.com