Screenwriters
ANDERSON, J J
After a short-lived spell as an apprentice draughtsman, he studied Art, photography and eventually film at the Bradford College of Art. Worked as a psychiatric nurse, AV technician, civil servant, and professional driver before returning to complete a degree, followed by an MA in Scriptwriting at the Northern School of Film, Leeds Metropolitan University. Has won awards for photography (Creative Camera, Victoria BC) and Scriptwriting (Yorkshire TV/Granada/Tyne Tees TV New Voices ‘The Wedge’).
A full member of the Writer’s Guild (GB)
BOOTH, Phil
Phil graduated from London Guildhall University with a BA Hons. Degree in Media Studies and started in the film industry as a runner, with Red Rooster Film & TV, in 1994. He quickly moved up the ladder within the Assistant Director ranks and now works as a 1st AD. He has worked all over the world and has had the benefit of learning from directors such as Joe Wright, Ken Loach, Tom Hooper, Robert De Niro, Andrei Konchalovsky, David Mamet, Gurinder Chadha, Neil Marshall and Todd Haynes.
His 6-part tv series Oh Brother! is currently under consideration by a major production company.
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O’LEARY, Ronan
CREDITS: Riders to the Sea – PBS Special starring Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer adapted and directed by Ronan from the Abbey Theatre production of the J. M. Synge classic Fragments of Isabella – Adapted and directed by Ronan from the Pulitzer nominated memoirs of Auschwitz survivor Isabella Leitner. Shot at Ardmore studios in Ireland..
RADFORD, Michael
The acclaimed Oscar Nominated British writer/director Michael Radford established his international reputation as the writer and director of Nineteen Eight-Four (Umbrella-Rosenblum Films/Virgin Films), starring John Hurt and Richard Burton in his final role. He went on to write and direct the Oscar winning Il Postino (Cecchi Gori Films) for which Michael was Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenwriter and the film was Nominated for Best Picture – altogether the film was Nominated in five categories. He also won the BAFTA for Best Director and Best Film not in the English Language, as well another 35 international awards. His films have won over 60 major international festival prizes.
STAGG, Phil
Before becoming a full-time screenwriter and director, Phil spent more than 20 years as a Fleet Street journalist, principally with the Daily Mail.
Since entering the film industry, he has written and directed two full-length features, Barefooting and Deep Lies, both of which were screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 and 2009 respectively. His screenplay Wodehouses’s War is to be directed by Michael Radford for the UK’s Corona Pictures and Olav Wyper is a co-producer on this film. Meanwhile Phil is working on the screenplay of The Club 1948, a thriller set during the Berlin airlift, for the Munich based ART-OKO Film GmbH.
WILLIAMS, Gill
Gill is a new writer and although she’s written several screenplays, THE LAST HAND is her first work to be submitted to film producers. She is also in the process of completing a TV drama and developing additional film screenplays, including an adaptation of a 1920s novel.