Are you a Writer, Director, Producer, Developer - anyone working with screenplays and stories - and have an interest in Thrillers or Horror? Film Victoria is hosting two lectures by Stephen Cleary, the internationally renowned head of ARISTA/EURISTA script development.
The workshops are:
'Writing and Developing Thrillers' by Stephen Cleary - Thursday 14 May
Look at the roots of the thriller, the underlying principles of the genre, the distinctive qualities of the various types of thriller and demonstrates exactly how, in the writing, you pull the audience to the edge of their seats and then keep them there.
'Writing and Developing Horror' by Stephen Cleary - Friday 15 May
See how the key elements of Sex and Death and Fear play through character and plot, discover the fundamental importance of metaphor in the genre, and examine in detail the essential structural rules and principles of Horror screenwriting.
Workshop presenter Stephen Cleary was Head of Development at the UK's national film Agency, British Screen, for three and a half years. He developed over 60 produced feature films including LAND AND FREEDOM (Ken Loach), BEFORE THE RAIN (Milcho Manchevski, Academy Award nominee for best foreign film, winner Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival), ROB ROY (Michael Caton-Jones), and BUTTERFLY KISS (Michael Winterbottom).
Stephen founded ARISTA, Europe's largest private film development agency in 1996. Graduates of Arista's training programs have written, directed or produced over 250 feature films and thousands of hours of television drama. Films produced, directed or written by Arista graduates in recent years include: THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND; BRICK LANE; TOTSI; THE FLYING SCOTSMAN and LONDON TO BRIGHTON.
Full details of the workshops can be found on the Film Victoria website
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