August 12th 2008.
OK, so once more unto the breach dear friends. Was wanderng around the Interweb looking for details of what is happening with the Oscar Moore Foundation (nothing at all apparently) and stumbled across some crew called Kaos Films who are running a screenwriting competition. And get this, the first prize is that they guarantee to produce the winning film with a budget of up to two million dollars, which sounds almost too good to be true. I wonder why I have never heard of them before. A run tour of Google and it appears that they have been running a similar competition for shorts for the last eight years, but this is the first time they have done one for a feature length. Any genre is allowed and the film can be set anywhere within reason. I'm taking within reason to mean is "you might have the best script ever but if it's set in Middle Earth, we can't recreate the White City on a 2 million dollar budget." I check out a few of the screenwriters blogs and am quite surprised at some of the negativity that I find. Mostly around the entry fee and the assignation of rights. OK, I'll accept that the entry fee is a little steep - sixty five quid per script - but at the same time, I'd always assumed that most wannabe screenwriters like me would be saying "CHANCE TO GET A FILM PRODUCED - WHO DO I HAVE TO SHAG OR KILL TO LAND THAT DEAL?" Hell, even the chance to get my work under the noses of the judges - Kenneth Branagh, Sir Alan Parker, Wooley, Powell, Kuhn, etc is probably worth a punt. So, sod the naysayers, I'm entering.
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Hi John,
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say congradulations on winning the BFSC with your script, I certainly can't wait to see it, just the title alone intrigues me.
I've just joined twitter so found your blog through that, and I've been rivited by your blog and hope you carry it on at some stage.
By the way, I'm Jane Hamer, writer and winner of the BSSC with 'Room to Let'. My film has just been made and is in editing right now. Arif is a smashing bloke isn't he?
Good luck with everything and let us know when we can see your film.
Kind regards,
Jane
Hi Jane,
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading the blog - glad you are enjoying it. Yes, I do plan to add to it, just as soon as I have something new to add. We took the decision to hang fire on production because the film is set in the summer and there was a concern that Irish weather would foul us up - and was that ever an inspired decision, as Dublin was pretty much buried under ten inches of snow until the end of March. So with that time we tweaked the script a little bit more - it's rather worrying that it gets better with every draft (hypothetically if we stuck at it long enough we might end up with Citizen Kane) so we now have what we shall call "the final, final, no we really mean it this time" version. Hopefully I will have some news to report soon.
Sorry for delay - that's good news and look forward to seeing the rest of the blog. Hope the weather went ok for you in the end.
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