The Screen Arts Institute

  Screenwriter Diana Voxerbrant attended the Screen Arts Institute’s Working Title workshops late last year and was selected to pitch her movie, “Girls Don’t Kill”, to Working Title and the Director Oliver Parker (“Othello”, “The Importance of Being Ernest”).  Last week, Diana was at the WT offices, pitching one-to-one to Oli, and next week she’s…

The Screen Arts Institute is holding its annual Pitch Salon next week on Wednesday 19th March at the iconic Electric Cinema on Portobello Road.  12 Writer/Film-makers pitching themselves and 12 projects developed to good 2nd draft stage. Our mentors include Tim Bevan at Working Title, the director Oliver Parker, Rob Kenny at the Curzon Group,…

  Stephen May, Director of The Screen Arts Institute, is running a weekend workshop/retreat giving you a chance to develop your movies and pitch them to the best in the industry.  Steve is a writer/producer/actor/director who has worked with the best on both sides of the Atlantic: Castle Rock, Miramax, Ealing Studios, the BBC, Working…

  Huge congratulations to one of our long-time Mentors, Joram ten Brink, for winning the best-documentary Bafta last Monday with his film “The Act of Killing”.  The film has won over 40 awards at festivals and is nominated for this year’s Oscars.  Good luck, Joram! Watch this interview with Joram      

Joram Ten Brink, a longtime Mentor and collaborator with Stephen May and the Screen Arts Institute, has had his film “The Act of Killing” nominated at this year’s Oscars. Joram, as producer, not only raised the cornerstone finance for the film but has mentored the director, Joshua Oppenheimer, through the 7 years of shooting and…

  The scientist-philospher-priest, Teilhard de Chardin, defined one of the challenges of living a full life in these terms, “Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean won’t carry us, let us venture onto the waters – just to see.” Or, as the best selling author Susan Jeffers puts it, “Feel…

  On Tuesday actor-writer-director Liam Hughes (participant on this year’s Storytelling for the Screen programme at the SAI) pitched two projects to Ealing Studio’s Head of Dev/Producer, Sophie Meyer.  In addition, Liam has just finished directing principal photography on a script written by fellow SAI participant, Terry Comer. The SAI is seeking new film-makers (writers,…

  Johnny Fewings, who has been Universal Pictures’s MD in the UK for a decade, shared wisdoms with The Screen Arts Institute today. He gave great insight to the changing model of feature film production and distribution at the £1m – £3m range.  Looking, amongst other things, at “four-wall” buy-outs of independent screens when launching…

  Several writers (Tricia Wise, Kim Parker, Mark Howard & Nick Flugge) from The Screen Arts Institute visited Harriet Spencer, Development Executive, at Working Title’s London offices yesterday.  Great insight from Harriet.  New creative relationships begun.  Thank you, Harriet. A reminder that the SAI is running story workshops in association with WT Films in November. …