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This one-day workshop will help screenwriters advance their material by exploring it ‘off the page’. Participants will act out each other’s work and tutor, David Keating (writer & director of The Last Of The High Kings and Wake Wood), will guide writers to improve their dialogue, action and scene descriptions. All participants will do a small amount of preparation prior to the day, which you will email to the tutor. This will include writing 1 or 2 pages of script and analysing each scene according to conflict, exposition and needs/wants of characters. You can bring a camera and ask someone to record your work being acted out, if you want. Keating wrote and directed The Last of the High Kings (Miramax), starring Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne and Christina Ricci. His latest feature, Wake Wood (Hammer/Vertigo/IFB), will be released in 2010 and stars Aiden Gillen (The Wire), Eva Birthistle (Ae Fond Kiss) and Timothy Spall (The Damn United, Sweeney Todd). As a screenwriter, he has worked for Columbia Pictures/Sony and on Mike Newell’s Into The West (Miramax). He has directed TV drama, documentaries and music videos. He has also mentored on screenwriting labs Equinoxe Germany, Equinoxe TBC France, Moonstone and tutored writers and directors at Mira Nair’s MAISHA Initiative in Kampala for East African Filmmakers.
Date: 1 Saturday, 27th February
Fee: €100 (students, unemployed)/ €130
Contact: Email education@galwayfilmcentre.ie or phone 091-770748

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‘Entangled in Yugoslavia’, by Dubliner Stephanie Allen-Early, is a personal memoire of time spent in the former Yugoslavia. Harrowing and uplifting by turns. Stephanie is married to Patrick Early, who once lived and wrote poetry in Co. Clare. They now alternate between France and London. The writing is clear and journalistic and devoid of the clichés of mere reportage. The personal point of view permits a greater in-depth quality around the subject-matter. Much of the UNICEF work involved trying to protect children in the midst of carnage. Irish bookshops take note.

ENTANGLED IN YUGOSLAVIA, by Stephanie Allen-Early. ISBN 978-86-913053-0-7 Pbck. 51pp. NPG. Published by Y.B.S., Belgrade. Illustrated.

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