Author: mandyleewords
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Edinburgh International Film Festival TALENT LAB
Edinburgh International Film Festival TALENT LAB As just announced in Screen International, I’m very thrilled to be one of the writers on the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s 2013 TALENT LAB. The Lab will bring together 30 emerging directors, producers and screenwriters with UK and international film professionals. I’ll be attending with my new project JAM JAR,…
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Tantalus on the Avalon Mentorship
I’ve now finished the Avalon Mentorship with theatre company Siege Perilous, and the 6-month development and mentoring process has resulted in my new full-length stage play, TANTALUS. Set in 1953 at the end of sweet rationing as sugar fills the air after war-time austerity, it focuses on a tense relationship that time (and equality) has forgotten.
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Masterbaker wins script consult
My romantic comedy feature screenplay, MASTERBAKER, has succeeded through all the stages of a worldwide script competition, and has won an in-depth script development consultation. Great news for the next polish!
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Spring (allegedly)
It’s been a busy couple of months as I’ve caught up on things, and I’ve been very bad regarding blogging. There was nearly 2 inches of dust when I opened the rather creaky blog door. We have been going through the mill regarding the terrible weather – that’s my excuse. Hell, it was snowing yesterday.…
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Different Hats
Hat number 1 (FILM – probably a baseball cap): I’m pleased to be working with award-winning London Director Deva Palmier on a few film projects. We’ve already collaborated on the script for a short film set in London, and she’s also attached to direct a feature film I have in development, and another short I’ve…
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It’s good to share
Facebook. Blogging. Social media. I’m guilty, and conflicted. Where does the genuine desire to share end, and ‘showing off’ begin? Where does the joy of revealing an experience end, and neediness begin? You remember the old days… you’d go and do something or see something interesting and you’d take a photograph to remember it or…
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Enter stage right…..Avalon Mentorship
Well my new birthday ‘year’ kicked off excitingly with the news that I’ve been awarded an Avalon Mentorship with theatre company Siege Perilous to develop my first full-length play for the stage, Tantalus. I can’t call the last year horrible, because it had some wondrous moments and terrific things in it, but my goodness, it…
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Allowing
I visited an amazing garden at the weekend. It was bursting with the last-minute, leftover energy of August, all blossoming borders and overlapping drapes of leaves and flowers. And for a while I just wandered and didn’t think at all about words or characters or plot-spinning. I just breathed in the colours and smells and…
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Lone Bird
Are you a lone bird or a sociable sort when it comes to writing? I’ve enjoyed writing with a co-writer this month, on a feature project set in India with a musical element. We’re currently at a developed treatment stage and already have some interest. It’s been a while since I co-wrote, and in this…
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