HOW TO APPLY
Course Fees: €150
Course Dates: 15th & 16th October
The application process is competitive and there are limited places.
Booking a place on a course requires a 50% non-refundable deposit.
To apply please email stating your interest to info@cinemanorthwest.com
ACCOMMODATION
List of local accommodation.
Shared Hostel accommodation at a rate of 10 Euro per night is available for a limited number of places.
The venue is 2 minutes walk from this accommodation.
Book via info@cinemanorthwest.com
Tea and Coffee will be provided. Lunch on both days is available for an additional 20 euro.
Adaptation - a two day screenwriting workshop
presented by Stephen Cleary
presented by Stephen Cleary
Stephen Cleary is a story developer and feature film producer. He has developed over 60 produced features with directors including Ken Loach, Milcho Manchevski, Michael Caton-Jones, Michael Winterbottom, Beeban Kidron and Marc Evans. He was Head of Development at British Screen for four years. He produced New Years Day in 2001, (Panorama selection Sundance Film Festival, Winner Best British Film Raindance Film Festival) and co-produced Goodbye Charlie Bright in 2002. That same year he was also co-screenwriter of the feature, Alexandria.
Stephen founded and ran Arista, Europe’s largest private film development agency from 1996 to 2006. Graduates of Arista programs have written, directed or produced over 250 feature films, including The Last King of Scotland; Brick Lane; Totsi; The Flying Scotsman and London to Brighton.
Stephen founded and ran Arista, Europe’s largest private film development agency from 1996 to 2006. Graduates of Arista programs have written, directed or produced over 250 feature films, including The Last King of Scotland; Brick Lane; Totsi; The Flying Scotsman and London to Brighton.
Stephen has spent the past two years working mainly in Australia and Japan. He is the Grace Marion Wilson Visiting Fellow in creative writing at the film faculty of Melbourne University. In partnership with the South Australian Film Corporation, he co- designed FilmLab, an initiative producing eight low-budget features in three years. The first of the eight, Matthew Bate’s Shut Up Little Man! premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011.
Stephen Cleary’s world renowned ADAPTATION workshop returns to Ireland. This two day workshop is aimed at filmmakers, producers and writers who are planning to adapt work for the screen.
Stephen Cleary’s world renowned ADAPTATION workshop returns to Ireland. This two day workshop is aimed at filmmakers, producers and writers who are planning to adapt work for the screen.
Stephen Cleary’s adaptation workshop came along at the perfect moment. We had just optioned a book and the process of deciding which elements of the novel we wanted to adapt and how we would set about doing it became so much clearer. I can’t recommend it enough!”
Natasha Marsh, Producer, Academy Award Winner, WASP
The first day introduces you to a new way of marrying the specific technical demands the original material makes of the writer with a fast and practical way of getting to the thematic centre of the adapted screenplay you want to write.
The second day shows how to use key screenwriting techniques to ensure your adaptation is truly cinematic as it moves away from the source material to achieve its own integrity. This is followed by a step-by-step guide through an adaptation screenwriting process.
The second day shows how to use key screenwriting techniques to ensure your adaptation is truly cinematic as it moves away from the source material to achieve its own integrity. This is followed by a step-by-step guide through an adaptation screenwriting process.