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London Screenwriters' Festival

3 days ... 50 speakers ... 400 writers and producers ... and you!

This October 29th-31st take in the launch of the London Screenwriters' Festival - a gathering and pooling of the talents and resources of some of the most successful and prolific screenwriters, producers and film makers working in the industry today.

This exciting new festival offers a myriad of events, lectures and workshops specifically designed to allow participants to hear from, interact with and be inspired by top industry professionals.

The Festival is designed for established writers and for beginners looking to hone their craft and further their own careers. It promises to provide invaluable opportunities for writers like you to learn from and connect with professionals in the film community.

Tickets are £299 for the three day Festival.  Check out the Festival website for a list of speakers, workshops, seminars, and competitions, then sign up here (enter 'celtx' as your discount code, and get a £37 discount)!

AFTRS Dept. of Screen Studies launches screenculture.net

 

 

 

The Celtx team extends Congratulations to our friend, Mike Jones and his colleagues at the AFTRS Dept. of Screen Studies on their recent launch of screenculture.net - "a new website for ideas and intuitions about screen cultures and futures." Mike wrote us and shared the following about what they'll be offering on the site :

We are blogging regularly around themes such as: Genres, Webisodes, Magic Realism,  Development, Story, “Auteur TV” (our name for a phenomenon we are attempting to define/describe) Research and more - and we’d like to invite you to rss our posts as well as to propose guest posts on our monthly (roughly!) themes, when inspired.

Other features of the site include: the latest info about our new courses – Screen Studies now convenes three awards courses at AFTRS, an historic first for the momentum of ideas here. 

The courses are:
- MA by Research - is a program of self-directed study on a project that will produce new knowledge for industry.
- Graduate Certificate in Screen Culture - where students encounter the key ideas that shape our screen culture and develop and articulate their own.
- Graduate Certificate in Webisodes (new in 2011!) - designed for a new generation of screen storytellers who will be using camera and laptops as sketchpads, making and remaking their stories as a way of learning their craft, honing their ideas and developing their online audiences.

Also featured on screenculture.net is info about our students’ research projects, links to their blogs and links to other screen culture sites of note.  We’d be delighted to link to your site or blog, too, send us the info!

All the best,

Mike
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Mike Jones
Lecturer in Screen Studies
Australian Film Television and Radio School