Sessions 2015

Sessions will be added in late Summer 2015

Over the three days of the London Screenwriters’ Festival we will run over one hundred seminars, workshops and networking events for professional screenwriters. We film most sessions, so if you miss one, or two clash, you’ll be able to catch up later online. For updates about the festival, sign up below.

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From my first year last year I have seen a tangible difference in the quality of my writing. I couldn’t wait to get back and learn more.

Vicky Hinault, Screenwriter

Headline

The 2015 British Screenwriters’ Awards

It’s about time someone put the originators and architects of great storytelling front and centre. And we did in 2014, and are doing it again in 2015, just BIGGER!

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You’ll leave feeling invigorated and raring to go. It’s essential that us writers get a good kick up the arse from time to time, and believe me, this festival wears one hell of a big boot…

Michelle Goode, Screenwriter

Beyond the workshop

Get Listed in the Talent Directory

Get yourself listed in the 2015 Talent Directory that is shared with other delegates and execs attending the festival.

Script To Screen

Read the script, watch the film or TV show, then meet the writers, filmmakers, producers at the festival.

Script Chat

Get intimate face-to-face time in our hugely popular Script Chat roundtable sessions. Ask our speakers the questions you want answered.

Advanced Mentoring at the Script Labs

Get one on one tuition and coaching from our experts in these intensive three hour sessions. Only six writers are selected for each lab.

Get Your Script Performed

Have scenes from your script read, performed and workshopped by professional actors and directors.

We will read your script: The Script Surgery

Need a professional to read your screenplay? Get one-on-one feedback on your script with Euroscript.

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Hearing what was in my head come alive in front of me left me inspired.

Edwina Tyrrell, Screenwriter

Great British PitchFest

Pitch at the Great British Pitchfest

This is your big moment… Pitch your killer project to professional producers and top agents. Past sessions have resulted in options AND representation!

The Pitch Factor

Have you got the Pitch Factor? Live from the London Screenwriters Festival, the Pitch Factor returns with CASH prizes and our very own Simon, Cheryl, Louis and ridiculously Scary!

The Elevator Pitch

Are you good enough to exit the elevator with the million dollar business card before the doors slide shut?

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I pitched my script to an agent at the festival and five months later, after a rewrite using what I learned at the LSF, I’ve just been signed by that agent!

Hayley November, Screenwriter

Practical help

PitchFest Bootcamp with Bob

Great American Pitchfest Guru Bob Schultz will start every day with a short 30 minute PitchFest bootcamp to get you ready for your pitch!

What will actually happen to your finished script? Live script edit

Live and dynamic script redraft, edit, slash and burn… Only for the bravest of writers!

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Thank you so much for your inspiration and community spirit. I can’t say enough how energizing and uplifting it is!

Jo Buckman, Producer and Screenwriter

Talent fast-track

Meet The Experts

A panel of leading film industry professionals provide confidential one-on-one advice to move your project onto the next stage.

Get legal advice in our free legal clinic at the festival

We all have concerns about our screenplays and career, but often can’t afford a specialist lawyer. At the festival you can get that face time you need, with a media lawyer.

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What a great networking tool for writers to meet producers and like-minded people…

Natalie Bailey – BBC Director, Producer

Open and Close

Festival Opening

Get fully prepped to get the most from the festival in this kick ass opening that will frame your three day roller coaster. NOT TO BE MISSED!

Festival Close

NOTE THIS SESSION BEGINS AT 6.15pm SHARP AND IS JUST 15 MINS LONG. Join the team for the FABULOUS close of the festival and our promise for 2015.

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The Actor’s table read was so illuminating – seeing what happens to your script when it is handed over to a director and actors was a complete eye-opener.

Joanna Marie Fox, Screenwriter

Social Connection

Networking Drinks In The Bar

Don’t be shy – grab a beer and break out those business cards!

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LSF was a celebration of screenwriting and of our screenwriting tribe.

Gordon Slack, Screenwriter