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OLIVIA HETREED is a British screenwriter, whose work includes the multi-award winning Girl With A Pearl Earring, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson and the radical adaptation of Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold. Olivia has worked on international feature projects including Bosnia’s first animated feature film, Birds Like Us, and extensively in TV drama ( The Canterbury Tales, The Treasure Seekers, Roman Mysteries ). She is President of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and a very experienced mentor of new writing talent, working with Arvon Foundation, the London Screenwriting Festival, Sarajevo Talent Campus, and several film schools. ANDY PATERSON is an award-winning producer and sometime screenwriter. His films include The Railway Man (Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman), which he co-wrote with Frank Cottrell Boyce; Girl With A Pearl Earring; Hilary and Jackie (Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths); Kevin Spacey’s Beyond The Sea and Restoration (Robert Downey Jr). Tigers, co-written with Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic, the story of a whistleblower who took on the Nestlé corporation, will be released in early 2016. In 2016, their production company, Sympathetic Ink, will produce Olivia’s latest screenplay, The Grand Sophy, adapted from the Georgette Heyer novel and developed with BBC Films. FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a producer and founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum. She is currently producing The Last Photograph directed by Danny Huston, an Irish Film Board After 16 short commemorating the Easter Rising and a series of female-led comedy sketches with Emmy award winning producer Stephanie Laing. Other recent productions include Pressure with Danny Huston and Matthew Goode and teen thriller Don’t Hang Up. She is the author of the Amazon best selling Rocliffe Notes – A Professional Approach for Screenwriters & Writer- Directors. She is a champion of new screen talent and has worked on many acclaimed directorial debuts including BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Rowan Athale’s The Rise and BAFTA nominee Tom Harper’s The Scouting Book for Boys, and has run talks and lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London, San Diego and Johannesburg. A huge thank you to our script selection panelists and judges. They included: Anna Burns Camille Gatin Celine Coulson Christopher Granier-Deferre Emily Gotto Jean Kitson Jenn Lambert Joe Naftalin Jon Croker Kate Prentice Lauren Dark Laurie Cooke Lincia Daniel Matthew Dench Michael Berliner Nabil Elouahabi Susan Jacobson Tessa Inkelaar Ursula Devine BAFTA ROCLIFFE NEW WRITING FORUM Ð FILM SHOWCASE 2015 WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER 2015 // BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien, Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop and Dave Spikey. Rocliffe Producer and Moderator FARAH ABUSHWESHA [email protected] BAFTA Producers JULIA CARRUTHERS [email protected] Rocliffe Producer ED CRIPPS [email protected] Casting FAYE TIMBY [email protected] Artwork KATY EDELSTEN [email protected] RUPERT CROSS c/o Air Edel LAURA NAKHLA [email protected] Find us on Facebook BAFTA BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum Follow us on Twitter @rocliffeforum @BAFTA Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies of their scripts or projects. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot provide contact details of attendees.
