Show Don’t Tell
“Show Don’t Tell”: What it Means and How to Apply It Possibly one of the most famous tenets in all of visual media, “show don’t tell” is the principle of showing the viewer something, rather than explaining it through dialogue or narration. Show Don’t Tell doesn’t just apply to one aspect of screenwriting but to […]
Script Angel partners on Steven Knight Writing Competition
Script Angel is excited to announce its partnership with the Birmingham Film and TV Market on Steven Knight’s ‘Make It In Birmingham’ Writing Competition. The Birmingham Film & TV Market and Steven Knight are teaming up to find the best screenwriters in the Midlands for the 2022 ‘Steven Knight: Make It In Birmingham’ Award, in association […]
Script Angel partners with KIFF
Script Angel is thrilled to announce its partnership with Kingston International Film Festival on its UK Short Screenplay Award, offering new talent the opportunity to get their short film script produced. Kingston International Film Festival (KIFF) runs 24-26 June 2022 for three days of screenings, events and workshops. Supported by BAFTA award-winning film director Mike […]
Writers’ Guild Awards 2022 Winners
Script Angel was thrilled to support the 29th Writers’ Guild Awards, honouring writers behind some of the most critically acclaimed works over the last two years, including Russell T Davies, Emerald Fennell, Andrea Gibb, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Chinonyerem Odimba, Kevin Dyer and Jack Thorne. The awards, hosted by WGGB President Sandi Toksvig OBE, celebrated […]
Script Angel partners with Filmarket Hub
Script Angel has partnered with Filmarket Hub, an online marketplace for films and series in development, to showcase selected projects from its screenwriter coaching programme. Hayley McKenzie, Script Angel Founder said: “In our mission to develop and showcase the best emerging screenwriters and projects from across the globe, we are delighted to partner with Filmarket […]
Screenwriting Contests
Placing in well respected screenwriting contests and script competitions can get your writing noticed by the industry, and be a step towards your professional screenwriting career. We’ve scoured the thousands of competitions to bring you a carefully curated list of the best screenwriting contests, labs and schemes from around the world. We regularly update this […]
Content London 2021 Industry Report
Content London is the annual gathering of the global drama industry and, after twenty months of back-to-back video-meetings for us all, it was a welcome return to meeting people in-person, Hayley McKenzie reports. As a globally significant co-production, financing and development market, Content London attracts not only commissioners from just about every streamer and broadcaster worldwide, […]
Writers’ Guild Awards 2022 Nominations Announced
Script Angel is very proud to sponsor the 29th Writers’ Guild Awards, to be presented on Monday 14 February 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians in central London. The ceremony will honour two years of British writing talent, following the cancellation of last year’s awards due to the Covid-19 pandemic. WGGB President Sandi Toksvig […]
Studio21 Script Competition 2021 Winners Announced
The winners of the Studio21 Script Competition were announced at the prestigious C21 Drama Awards held at Content London. From the 22 shortlisted projects, 6 Finalists were selected to pitch their projects live at Content London. An esteemed judging panel, drawn from Studio21’s advisory board, read all 6 Finalists’ pilot scripts and series pitch materials. […]