First Glimpse of New Writing Talent at EIFF

The Nine writers and their mentors.

Nine new writers will introduce their debut feature film ides at a special event at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, combining presentation “pitches” and “script in hand” performances by an ensemble of actors.

“The writers applied for one of our Screen Writing Residencies Programme, which are part of Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures,” explains Claire Dow, Projects Manager at Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. “They all came to the programme with some screen experience — some had worked in television, some had done lots of short films — but the caveat was that none had done a feature film…

First published by Reel Scotland; read more here