Euroscript: The first and still the best for screenwriters
We’re the UK's foremost script feedback, development, and mentoring service.
Our passion is good writing and our mission is to improve the quality of scripts in the industry.
Alongside courses, workshops and events, we also run an annual story competition.
We've been established for 30 years, and our expertise is respected internationally.
Our passion is good writing and our mission is to improve the quality of scripts in the industry.
Alongside courses, workshops and events, we also run an annual story competition.
We've been established for 30 years, and our expertise is respected internationally.
THE EUROSCRIPT SPEAKEASY IS BACK!
agent, manager or lawyer?
It’s the Great Debate for all screenwriters.
Professional writers have traditionally been represented by agents, who put them up for gigs, market their original projects, negotiate contracts and take a tidy cut of their income along the way. But times are changing. Should emerging writers now be looking at the American model - working with a “talent manager” - or perhaps just using a media lawyer instead, as and when required? What are the pros and cons of each, and how do they all work in practice? What are the alternatives when you don’t have an agent? Join us for lively discussion with our special industry guests: |
BRENDAN FOLEY
Acclaimed screenwriter/creator, represented by United Agents in the UK. His new show Sherlock and Daughter is about to launch in the USA |
ANGELA JACKSON
Top media lawyer working with writers, producers, directors and financiers
Top media lawyer working with writers, producers, directors and financiers
STEPHANIE JOALLAND
Renowned writer/director, currently working in film and stage and managed by Zero Gravity in LA
Renowned writer/director, currently working in film and stage and managed by Zero Gravity in LA
We'll be kicking off the evening with a pitching session - in which three aspiring writers give a 90 second pitch for their film or TV projects and receive live feedback from our guests & members of the Euroscript team.
After the evening's discussion there will be Q&A with the guests, followed by networking in the bar.
SEATS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY!
DATE: Tuesday 25 February
TIME: 7pm
After the evening's discussion there will be Q&A with the guests, followed by networking in the bar.
SEATS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY!
DATE: Tuesday 25 February
TIME: 7pm
The 31st Euroscript Screen Story Competition 2025
is now OPEN
deadline 31 March 2025
Write a great prose summary of your feature-length screenplay in no more than 750 words (it can be less than 750 words but no more) and submit it by the deadline.
We also ask for ten pages of sample script from the screenplay story you are submitting. All entrants receive a Euroscript Treatment Barometer Report on their 750-word story summary. |
See below for info on our workshop How to Write a Winning Treatment.
UPCOMING COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
INTRO TO:
WRITING FOR ANIMATION
WRITING FOR ANIMATION
Ever dreamed of writing for Walt Disney or Pixar?
This live webinar gives you an introduction into the world of animation. From 2D to 3D, and stop-motion, discover how to tell animated stories! DATE AND TIME Tuesday, 18th February 2025 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm GMT Online |
INTRO TO:
WRITING FOR CHILDREN
WRITING FOR CHILDREN
Interested in writing films or series for children?
This live webinar gives you all the basics. Discover how to tell stories for a younger audience! DATE AND TIME Thursday, 20th February 2025 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm GMT Online |
HOW TO ADAPT ANYTHING (because Adaptations sell)
More than half of all Academy "Best Picture" awards have been adaptations.
Right now, adaptations are more popular - and successful - than ever.
Learn the secrets of successful adaptation at this one-day workshop.
Tutor PAUL BASSETT DAVIES has many years of experience
adapting work from multiple sources across different media.
DATE AND TIME
Friday 7th March 2025
10.30am - 5pm
Central London
A SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION IS A REINVENTION NOT A REWRITE.
Right now, adaptations are more popular - and successful - than ever.
Learn the secrets of successful adaptation at this one-day workshop.
Tutor PAUL BASSETT DAVIES has many years of experience
adapting work from multiple sources across different media.
DATE AND TIME
Friday 7th March 2025
10.30am - 5pm
Central London
A SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION IS A REINVENTION NOT A REWRITE.
HOW TO WRITE A WINNING TREATMENT
(in time to enter it for
the 31st Euroscript Screen Story competition 2025)
Learn the secrets of powerful treatment writing in time to submit it to our competition.
DATE AND TIME Sunday 16th March 2025 10.30pm – 1pm ONLINE - London time |
Entrepreneurial modelling
for writers
Are you looking for new ways to sustain your freelance writing career?
This idea generation workshop introduces you to business modelling tools to turn your ideas into concrete projects or business ventures
DATE AND TIME
Friday, 14th March 2025
10.30 am to 17.00 pm GMT
Central London
This idea generation workshop introduces you to business modelling tools to turn your ideas into concrete projects or business ventures
DATE AND TIME
Friday, 14th March 2025
10.30 am to 17.00 pm GMT
Central London
ANALYSE THIS!
and learn to think inside the boxIf you want to write for television, it's important to learn how to watch TV drama differently and to develop a clear understanding of what scripts are actually for.
What’s on the page has to be SO much more than just a good read. It has to inform an entire creative team, enabling them to breathe life into every aspect of a script. This one-day workshop explores the function of stage directions, dialogue and story structure in a TV drama script, deconstructing it, scene by scene, to see how it serves as a template for what eventually ends up on screen. Crucial training for entry-level and emerging screenwriters. DATE AND TIME Friday 25 MARCH 11AM - 6M Central London |
HOW TO CLAIM
THE UK INDEPENDENT FILM TAX CREDIT
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Develop your script from initial idea to a final draft of your feature or short film, web or TV comedy or drama series and improve your writing, story assessment and editing skills in these monthly drop-in feedback workshops, hosted online and in-person (at BECTU) by Theresa Boden on selected Mondays daytime - 1.15-4.15pm & evening - 6.15 -9.15pm.
The workshops are for a maximum of 6 writers (writing teams may attend as one participant) so booking is advised a week before the workshop. |