Speakers

kate The London Screenwriters’ Festival features over 150 professional speakers from all corners of the industry. Many have also agreed to intimate Script Chat sessions after their respective events so that you can get face time with them. As guide to the calibre and quantity of our professional speakers, check out our roster from LSF 2013 HERE. For updates, check back soon or join our newsgroup below.

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Thank you for this unforgettable time and life-changing experience. It was magical!

Valeriya Ordinartseva, Screenwriter

Speakers To Be Added

Over 100 speakers to be added – check back soon

Over the coming months the team will add more and more speakers.

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Thank you for this unforgettable time and life-changing experience. It was magical!

Valeriya Ordinartseva, Screenwriter

Headliners

Iain Smith – Producer

Credits include: Wanted, The Fountain, The Fifth Element

Iain is an established and award winning international film producer with a credit list as long as your arm!

Lynda La Plante, CBE – Screenwriter & Author

Credits include: Prime Suspect

Lynda has created some of the most iconic and successful British TV series, including Prime Suspect, Widows and The Governor.

Julie Gray – Story consultant and writing mentor

Director, Just Effing Entertain Me Screenwriting Competition

Hollywood screenwriter and script guru

Pilar Alessandra – Script Consultant and Educator

Credits include: The Coffee Break Screenwriter

Pilar's students and clients have written for Lost, Prison Break, Nip Tuck, House of Lies, CSI and Family Guy.

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The perfect balance between exhilaration and exhaustion…

Andrew James Carter, Screenwriter

Screenwriters

Allan Cubitt – Screenwriter

Credits include: The Fall, The Runaway

Allan is the creator and writer of the BBC's critically acclaimed smash hit The Fall starring Gillian Anderson.

Tony Jordan – Writer and producer

Credits include: Hustle, Life On Mars, Holby Blue

He’s written for and created some of the most iconic and successful British TV series, including Life on Mars and East Enders.

Andrew Ellard – Screenwriter & Script Editor

Credits include: The IT Crowd, Red Dwarf

“I wish Andrew came as an app” – Graham Linehan

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Thank you for this unforgettable time and life-changing experience. It was magical!

Valeriya Ordinartseva, Screenwriter

People who get stuff made

Brandy Rivers – Agent | The Gersh Agency LA

Brandy is looking for TV, and in features: contained thrillers, elevated horror, big world action movies and broad comedies. Also, books for film/tv.

John Yorke – MD Company Pictures

Credits include: Shameless, Life On Mars, Bodies

John is Managing Director of Company Pictures, the UK drama independent producing Skins, Shameless and The White Queen.

Stephen Follows – Writer and producer

Credits include: Baseline, Sign Language

Stephen Follows is an award-winning writer and producer.

Julian Friedmann – Film, TV and literary agent

Agent and great supporter of emerging talent.

Julian has years of experience as a literary agent and was the founder of ScriptWriter magazine.

Ned Dowd – Producer

Apocalypto, King Arthur, Ondine, Shanghai Noon and Last Of The Mohicans

Apocalypto, King Arthur, Shanghai Noon and Last Of The Mohicans are a handful of films on Ned's resume - it reads more like our movie collection!

Paul Ashton – Senior Film Exec | Creative England

Paul is a Senior Film Executive at Creative England.

Richard Holmes – Producer

From 'Soft Top...' and 'Shooting Fish' to 'Eden Lake' and 'Resistance'

Prolific and tenacious British producer who gets films made where others fail...

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I’m still buzzing my socks off about the lab… what a tremendous experience!

Michelle Lindsay, Screenwriter

Directors

Eran Creevy – Director and Screenwriter

Credits include: Shifty, Welcome To The Punch

Eran wrote and directed the BAFTA nominated Shifty; his latest feature Welcome To The Punch was Executive Produced by Ridley Scott.

Lance Nielsen – Writer & Director

Credits include: The Journey

Lance is a writer, director and producer who often tackles social and political issues.

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The perfect balance between exhilaration and exhaustion…

Andrew James Carter, Screenwriter

Actors

Paterson Joseph – Actor

Credits include: Peep Show, Green Wing

Paterson's TV credits include the award-winning Green Wing, Peep Show, Sex Traffic and Julius Caesar. His films include The Beach and In The Name of The Father.