|
|
Post by roger1 on Mar 8, 2008 9:54:11 GMT
Received some exciting news on Thursday, my script 'Tender' has been commissioned by EM Media and The UK Film Council through DV Shorts.
Tina Pawlik and Yvonne Bray will produce and the brilliant Deborah Haywood (Lady Margaret) will direct. If there're people on here that haven't seen Lady Margaret I urge you to watch it (a great turn by Kieran Hardcastle as well).
Yeah, so got another 2 scripts pretty much written and a baby due in August - gonna be a mad old year me thinks!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Dazza on Mar 8, 2008 11:22:00 GMT
What brilliant news congratulations. Are you able to give any details about what the film is about? Feature or short?
|
|
|
|
Post by roger1 on Mar 8, 2008 11:56:04 GMT
It's a messed up love story set against a back drop of inner city estate life, domestic violence and gangs. It's a short - I think it'll come in at 17 minutes.
|
|
|
|
Post by salvador on Mar 8, 2008 11:57:51 GMT
Excellent! Congrats mate, great stuff
|
|
|
|
Post by Kezz on Mar 8, 2008 12:17:31 GMT
Ha, Congratulations on that my friend.. Lets hope the Tina/Debs connection will be successfull again this time round !
Kieran.
(Thanking you kindly for the compliments btw!)
|
|
|
|
Post by roger1 on Mar 8, 2008 12:24:52 GMT
Thanks folks - appreciate it.
Hey Kieran, you're a talent mate!
|
|
|
|
Post by sammo on Mar 9, 2008 7:51:53 GMT
Thats amazing - congratulations on the commissioning.
I hope it all goes well, will you keep us all updated?
Best of luck with it all.
|
|
|
|
Post by roger1 on Mar 9, 2008 13:07:00 GMT
Cheers - yeah I'll keep you up to speed.
|
|
|
|
Post by theunwashedmass on Mar 9, 2008 16:04:38 GMT
Good news! Hope it goes well!
|
|
|
|
Post by Tom on Mar 15, 2008 9:06:00 GMT
Ah, great stuff indeed. Keep it going!
|
|
|
|
Post by RydCook on Mar 21, 2008 22:23:35 GMT
Congrats!
|
|
|
|
Post by roger1 on Mar 28, 2008 13:11:49 GMT
Just found out we've got Des Hamilton on board as casting director - he's the guy who discovered Tomo. Hopefully he can pull it out of the bag again and find us the peeps that'll bring this thing to life.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave on Mar 28, 2008 23:38:24 GMT
Congratulations Roger1!
I was wondering, do you have an agent or anything? How did you forward your script and get it noticed?
I saw Lady Margaret.... you're definitely in good directorial hands there!
|
|
|
|
Post by roger1 on Mar 29, 2008 8:16:20 GMT
Cheers - yeah, Lady Margaret is great.
I entered a scheme called DV Shorts - basically all the regional screen agencies get involved. My screen agency is EM Media, I wrote a script, entered it and luckily got selected as one of 12 to go into development.
After 3 months development they selected just 4 scripts to get made, I was one of the lucky 4. What's great about DV Shorts is that it's backed by The UK Film Council, getting their input and logo on your film is great. I'd urge anyone wanting to get their films made to enter this scheme. OK, competition is stiff - I think in the East Mids there were well over 100 entries and like I said only 4 selected, but if you get selected - what an opportunity!!
I have no agent as yet, hopefully that'll change when I finish my feature length script.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dazza on Mar 29, 2008 11:19:21 GMT
Roger is spot on, our region run it as well Dave Southwest Screen Council they are based in Bristol.
I applied a couple of years ago to the DV Shorts program and got knocked back but that was before I wote anything properly and the two ideas I submitted were pretty shite looking back now but they were pretty helpful.
I have two scripts in the pipeline, one I am going to make myself and one I am going to try and get funding for from them on the next DV shorts program.
|
|
