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.
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