MA SCREENWRITING GRADUATE UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2009

GRADUATE UPDATE
MA SCREENWRITING
FEBRUARY 2009

GUY LODGE (2006)
His MA Feature screenplay "Exit 47" has been selected for the Berlinale Talent Project Market in 2009 as a potential directing project by a young German filmmaker, Theresa Von Eltz.

PIERRE LETHIER (2006)
His doctoral thesis on espionage in film, which is supervised by Professor Ginette Vincendeau at King's College London, is near to completion. Also has two books at the printer about to be published.

INES BRAGA (2007)
Feature film Commission from the UK Film Council the project is called 'Beatrice's Father' to be directed by Don Boyd - in development with the UK Film Council.
.'Fronteira' ,which is the LFS MA script, was selected for the Skillset ShortList -best 10 from all the UK screenwriting courses. (LFS had two scripts selected in the ten)
Her professional activity includes Power to the Pixel Coordinator @ the 52nd Times/ BFI London Film Festival.

STAVROS PAMBALLIS (2007)
Stavros Pamballis’s has writing credit on Shirley Adams directed by MA Filmmaking graduate Oliver Hermanus which is currently in post production.

His current projects include a commission to adapt the Graphic Novel, Quebrada for Filmmaker SRL(Italy) and an 80s Metal Biopic which is in development with Iron Box films. His latest feature project, Saving Abeo has been selected to the final round of the Channel 4, 4Talent/SWF 2009 Pitch In Time competition.

JIMMY RUZICKA (2007)
Working on feature screenplay with MA Filmmaking graduate Anu Menon called Click N Marry - a feature length romcom, the first of her three projects with new production company People Pictures. Due to shoot at end of March 2009.

GABRIEL VALLEJO (2007)
Best Comedic Short script at the BlueCat Screenplay competition in Los Angeles.

He wrote the screenplay for Survivor, which won Best Script Award at the BFM Film Festival and recently won a commission to develop a feature length screenplay with BBC Writer’s Room in 2009.

LUCIA LOPEZ (2007)
Development Executive with Matador Films.

AMOS SOFFIAN (2007)
“Breaking Bollywood" in development with Parkville Pictures (along with LFS producer grad Olivier Kaempfer).

Film London Freelance Script Analyst - reported on submitted screenplays for the Microwave Low Budget Feature Scheme.

NINA MITROVIC (2007)
Play commissioned by the National Theatre in Rijeka (Croatia) and in rehearsal for another one "Zagrebacki Pentagram" (a project of 5 writers)

MISHA DE CLERCQ (2008)
Writing a feature treatment for Warp X .

Script Reader for Trademark Films.

NINA GERSTENBERGER (2008)
Working as a Production Assistant to Paul Raphael, Starfield Productions through the Skillset Trainee scheme

ORPHEUS PERETZIS (2008)
Working as a Writer/Producer with promo company On Demand.

FELICITY CARPENTER (2008)
Shortlisted for Channel 4's New Comedy Writing award 2008.

Writer's Assistant for BBC sitcom My Family.

Writer on a new children's series for Helion Pictures, with development money from The Cartoon Network.

Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting award at the International Emmys 2007.

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