LondonSWF 2021 (September) Update Due to Covid uncertainty, we will be running a hybrid festival in 2021, with a three-day live event* and online sessions spread over a longer period of time. Things could change rapidly so keep an eye on our updates HERE. In person delegates will require daily flow tests and vaccine status declaration. |
We are assembling the GREATEST roster of screenwriting speakers ever for our TENTH anniversary!
The London Screenwriters’ Festival will host around 130 professional speakers from all areas of the film and television business. Many have also agreed to intimate online Script Chats (subject to technology) after their respective sessions so that you can get facetime with them. Although speakers are being added continuously, the vast majority will be confirmed in the summer of 2021. Get updates by signing up below.
"Inspiring speakers, enthusiastic team, supportive community, and fabulous pitching opportunities!"
Alison Clapham, Screenwriter

Headliners
Linda Aronson – Practitioner, Screenwriter
Author of: The 21st-Century Screenplay

William Nicholson – Screenwriter & Novelist
Credits include: Gladiator, Les Miserables, Mandela: Long Road To Freedom

David Reynolds – Screenwriter

Diane Drake – Screenwriter and Story Consultant

J. Michael Straczynski – Screenwriter, Producer, Director

Lorien McKenna – Screenwriter, Story Manager, Producer
Credits include Bave, Inside Out and Curious George TV series

Meg LeFauve – Oscar-nominated Screenwriter

Mike Medavoy – Producer, CEO of Phoenix Pictures

Pilar Alessandra – Script Consultant, Educator
Author of The Coffee Break Screenwriter

Scott Myers – Screenwriter, Producer, Educator
Credits include K-9 with Jim Belushi and Trojan War with Jennifer Love Hewitt

The Festival has created a grounded, rounded, richly valuable experience for writers like myself."
Lee Stone, Writer

Screenwriters
Ashley Pharoah – Writer
Credits include: Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes

Jed Mercurio – Screenwriter
Credits include: Line Of Duty, Cardiac Arrest

Tim Bain – Screenwriter
Credits include: PJ Masks, Fireman Sam

Aimée Kwan – Writer, Director and Actress

Alexis Kirke – Screenwriter, Technologist

Amanda Graham – Screenwriter and Trainer

Anthony Mullins – Screenwriter, Director and Script producer

Aschlin Ditta – Screenwriter
Credits include: The Catherine Tate Show, Little Heart

Clive Frayne – Screenwriter, Development Consultant and Author
Author of The Process of Screenwriting

Debbie Moon – Screenwriter
Credits include: Wolfblood, Hinterland

Dominic Morgan – Screenwriter
Credits include Hard Target 2, An Act of Defiance

Dui Jarrod – Screenwriter, Director and Playwright

George Kay – Executive Producer, Writer
Credit include: Lupin, Killing Eve, Criminal UK, The Tunnel, The Hour

Glenn Gers – Screenwriter

Henry Fitzherbert – Screenwriter
Credits include Slaughterhouse Rulez, Born a King

James Wood – Screenwriter
Credits include: Rev, The Gamechangers

Jeff Kitchen – Screenwriter
Jessica Ruston – Screenwriter
Credits include Harlots, Young Wallander

Joe Ainsworth – Screenwriter
Credits include: Brookside, Holby City and New Tricks.

Joe Wielosinski – Screenwriter, Teacher

Jose Molina – Screenwriter, Producer

Kat Wood – Screenwriter & Director
Credits include: Home, Arthur & Merlin

Lisa McMullin – Screenwriter
Credits include EastEnders, Doctors

Lucinda Coxon – Screenwriter
Credits include: The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White

Mark Sanderson – Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Author, Blogger, and Lecturer
Author of: A Screenwriter’s Journey to Success: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics to Survive as a Working Screenwriter in Hollywood

Pat Higgins – Writer, Director
Credits include TrashHouse, Hellbride, KillerKiller

Pen Densham – Producer, Screenwriter

Richard Kurti – Screenwriter
Credits include: Wolfblood, Primeval

Robbie Sunderland – Writer

Sally Abbott – Screenwriter
Credits include: The Coroner, Vera, Death in Paradise, Eastenders and Frantic Assembly

Simon Cox – Writer, Director

Simon Nye – Screenwriter
Credits include: Men Behaving Badly, Reggie Perrin and The Durrells

Thandi Lubimbi – Screenwriter

Trish Curtin – Writer, Producer

It was a pleasure to engage with such a diverse group of passionate writers..."
Kate Harwood, Controller Series/Serials, BBC Drama

People Who Get Stuff Made
Ned Dowd – Producer
Apocalypto, King Arthur, Ondine, Shanghai Noon and Last Of The Mohicans

Julian Friedmann – Film, TV & Literary Agent
Staunch supporter of emerging talent

Jeremy Howe – Drama Commissioning Editor | Radio 4
Credits include: The Archers, Bloomsday

Ceri Meyrick – Executive Producer and Head of Development | BBC Studios

Alexei Slater – Filmmaker - Turn The Slate Productions

Carrie Courogen – Associate Director of Creative Development | Condé Nast

Catherine King – Development Co-ordinator | Reel One

Catherine Williams – Screenwriter
Credits include New Teletubbies, Topsy and Tim, Waffle the Wonder Dog, Chip and Potato

Gary W. Goldstein – Producer
Credits include: Pretty Woman, Under Siege, The Mothman Prophecies, and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle o

Stewart Le Marechal – Producer | MetFilm

Hearing what was in my head come alive in front of me left me inspired."
Edwina Tyrrell, Screenwriter

Directors
Debbie Isitt – Screenwriter & Director
Credits include: Confetti, Nativity 1, 2 & 3

Jim Agnew – Director, Writer and Producer

John Maclean – Screenwriter & Director
Credits include: Slow West, Pitch Black Heist

Marcus Markou – Screenwriter & Director
Credits include: Papadopoulos & Sons

I'm only on my second LSF and already it is THE thing I look forward to every year!"
Sarah Paviour, Writer

Actors
Matthew Joseph Campbell – Writer, Actor

Stephen Arthur – Writer, Actor

It's so rare to have so many writers – some of the most intelligent, imaginative souls there are – in one place at the same time..."
J Beltrame, Screenwriter

People Who Know Stuff
Lucy V Hay – Script Editor | Bang2write
Bionic blogger, script editor, author and the voice of new writers!

Ellin Stein – Script Editor, Educator
Author of That's Not Funny, That's Sick

Chris Jones – LSF Director & Founder, Filmmaker, Author
Credits include the Oscar®-shortlisted Gone Fishing; author of the Guerilla Handbooks

Bob Schultz – Writer, Producer, Professor, Instructor
Credits include Below Zero, Hitlersaurus!

Stephen Follows – Writer and producer
Credits include: Baseline, Sign Language

Jean Kitson – Agent, Kitson Press Associates
Founder: Kitson Press Associates

Adele Anderson – Personal Fitness Trainer and Screenwriter

Caroline Ferguson – Writer and Mindset Trainer

Chris Gore – Writer, Comedian, Author and Television Personality

Harriet Bratt – International Speaker, Trainer

Houston Howard – Co-Founder of One 3 Creative, Producer, author
You're Gonna Need A Bigger Story, You're Gonna Need A Bigger Workbook

Ian Shorr – Writer, Producer and panda enthusiast
Known for Splinter (2008), Office Uprising (2018) and Infinite (2021)

Joanna Tilley – Writer and Script Consultant

Lee Jessup – Career Coach
Credits include: Getting It Write: An Insider's Guide To A Screenwriting Career

May Gibson – Producer & Script Development Executive
Credits include: The Musketeers, Wolfblood

Patti Good – Therapist, Teacher, Healer and Spiritual Mentor
Meditation Teacher, Doula, Hypnobirthing Practitioner and Reiki Master

Philip Hughes – Screenwriter, Educator
Writing credits include Thunderpants, I Want Candy, The Queen's Nose

Roxanne Harvey – Producer
Credits include: Casualty, The Bill, Bad Girls

Sean Robert Daniels – Nicholl Fellow-winning Screenwriter
Killers, The Docket, The Last Victims

Shannan E. Johnson – CEO of The Professional Pen

Suzanne Gundersen – Founder of ScreenwriteNOW

Ted Wilkes – Screenwriter, Educator
Co-author of The Beginning, The Middle & The End (available soon)

It’s extraordinary to meet so many people in one place who are on the same journey, and I will never get tired of hearing their stories."
Michelle Hood, Screenwriter

Moderators
Mark Pallis – Screenwriter
Credits include: Garrow's Law, Iron Monk, Tales of Peter Rabbit

Guy Rowland – Screenwriter
Credits include Sam Jackson's Secret Video Diary

Cera Rose Pickering – Screenwriter, Playwright & Actor
Credits include: Downton Abbey, Endeavour

Desi Lyon – Writer & Moderator
Fiona Hunnisett – Screenwriter, Moderator

Georgina Sherrington – Development Producer

Guy Mannerings – Moderator
KT Parker – Screenwriter & Playwright
Credits include Jenna the Great and The Chamber of Beheaded Queens.

Liz Slade – Moderator, Screenwriter, Lawyer

Lucy van Smit – Novelist & Screenwriter
Credits include: The Hurting

Mai Davies – Moderator

Maureen Hascoet – Producer, Director
Credits include 50 Kisses ('Enough' segment)

Vera Mark – Writer, Script Coach, Moderator
Vera is a moderator at the festival.

Thanks to you and your team for the most amazing four days at the Screenwriters’ Festival; I have come away buzzing and have already bought my ticket for next year!"
Liz Mente-Bishop, Screenwriter
