2011 BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series

26 July 11

In association with The JJ Charitable Trust

"Without great scripts, films are nothing. born from a desire to celebrate the art of screenwriting and acknowledge its primacy in film, the inaugural 2010 Screenwriters' Lecture Series had a huge cultural impact. With the aim of making this the greatest
celebration of screenwriting in the world, BAFTA and BFI
are proud to announce an extraordinary line-up of
speakers for our second year, featuring
many of cinema's major screenwriting voices."
Jeremy Brock, Screenwriter and Founder of the Lecture Series

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William Nicholson

Tuesday 13 September, 18:45 / BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly

Twice Oscar nominated but it was almost by accident that Nicholson moved into writing for screen. Early in his career, Shadowlands earned the writer both a BAFTA award and an Oscar nomination, exploding him on to a world stage. Subsequent work included the screenplay for Nell (with Mark Handley), directed by Michael Apted, and the Ridley Scott directed Gladiator for which he shared an Oscar nomination with John Logan and David Franzoni. Nicholson currently has several projects in development, including a script for Working Title’s adaptation of Les Miserables to be directed by Tom Hooper. Of his writing, he says, "I am not writing to reveal my own mysteriously-fascinating self to others but to explore the world we all share".

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Moira Buffini

Friday 16 September, 18:30 / BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly

Best known until recently as a writer for theatre, Buffini has established herself a playwright whose ambitious and confident vision refuses to be restricted by the confines of current theatre conventions. She is a founding member of the Monsterists, a group which advocates large scale productions (despite the prevailing notion that the theatre can no longer resource such storytelling). She is already bringing this same attitude to her screenwriting and has entered the sector with a bang. Her skill at handling multi-character and mutli-stranded stories made her the perfect choice for adapting comic strip Tamara Drewe for the screen (directed by Stephen Frears). Her forthcoming adaptation of Jane Eyre (directed by Sin Nombre’s Cary Fukunaga) is released in September 2011 and her reworking of her own play, Byzantium to be directed by Neil Jordan and starring Soairse Ronan.

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John Logan

Tuesday 20 September, 19:00 / BFI Southbank

Widely regarded as one of Hollywood's leading screenwriters, John Logan has collaborated with some of the most visionary directors of our time: Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg. This multi-Oscar and BAFTA nominated writer might not be a recognised name to everyone, but with an ability to turn his hand with superb virtuosity to any style or genre from The Aviator to Star Trek: Nemesis or Any Given Sunday, his work is in high demand. This year alone, his writing is at the heart of four major features: animated comedy Rango; Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut Coriolanus; Bond 23 directed by Sam Mendes; and Hugo Cabret, a 3D film directed by Scorsese.

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Guillermo Arriaga

Monday 26 September, 19:00 / BFI Southbank

In the last decade, Guillermo Arriaga has become a major screenwriting force, with a style that is equal parts head, heart, and soul. With both Amores Perros and his BAFTA-nominated screenplay for 21 Grams he updates classic melodramatic themes of love and loss with a structural complexity that is utterly modern. Babel (like his earlier features, made with director Alejandro González Iñárritu) received an Oscar nomination. His first work as writer-director, The Burning Plain starred Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Basinger.

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Frank Cottrell Boyce

Tuesday 27 September, 19:00 / BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly

A much loved and prolific writer, Frank Cottrell Boyce moves effortlessly between media - stage, TV and film as well as several children’s novels. His long term collaboration with Michael Winterbottom gave us Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People and Cock and Bull Story and in 1999 he was nominated for a BAFTA award for Hilary and Jackie. As a writer, he rejects formulaic approaches to narrative and he has a reputation for being a truly original and inventive storytelling, as well as a wonderfully witty and engaging speaker on the art and craft of writing.

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Paul Laverty

Thursday 29 September, 18:30 / BFI Southbank

Paul Laverty's writing delicately balances the political and emotional. He's best known for his 15-year creative partnership with Ken Loach which has yielded outstanding feature films such as Carla's Song, My Name Is Joe, Sweet Sixteen, A Fond Kiss and The Wind That Shakes the Barley. A recent Spanish language script for Even the Rain (directed by Icíar Bollaín) won a slew of awards, including a Goya nomination and an Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Programmed alongside the BFI’s major Ken Loach season, Laverty joins us to talk about his creative approach, which helps give voice to people too often neglected by mainstream cinema.

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Charlie Kaufman

Friday 30 September, 19:00 / BFI Southbank

Modern screenwriters don’t come more iconic than Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Synecdoche, New York: these all are intensely individual works of art but they share a sense of their creator - wildly imaginative, with a sharp mental acuity and mischievous wit. A rare chance to peek inside one of the most original minds in the industry.

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