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29/09/2005

Arista launches programme for MA screenwriter graduates

Are you an MA screenwriter graduate in the UK looking for an accelerated introduction to the producers, directors, financiers, agents, distributors, journalists and other power brokers in the British and International film industry?
Would you also benefit from a sustained development feedback into the projects you are working on from experienced and successful screenwriters, story development experts and other industry mentors over a nine-month period?
Would you like free access to a series of project development workshops in Europe and the UK? Would you like exclusive membership of an industry dining club which hosts intimate lunches and dinners with industry insiders talking exclusively to you and six colleagues about their work and how you might be a part of it?
If so, Arista’s new ADEPT 3 MA screenwriter graduate programme is custom-made for you. Supported by Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, The Media Programme of the EU and Arista’s own Writer Scholarship Fund, ADEPT 3 is a nine-month pilot programme which will hand-pick seven of the UK’s most promising MA screenwriter graduates and develop their knowledge, contacts and industry savvy over a nine-month period, as well as developing their screenplays with the help of the UK’s best screenwriting and industry talent.
If you want to know more about ADEPT 3 call Jonathon Rawlinson on Tel: 0207 323 1775 or e-mail [email protected] to ask for an application pack.
Bursary support and travel grants are available to those in economic hardship.
(CD/SP)
VMI.TV Ltd

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