Who does write British films?
It would be with fair to say (perhaps with a hint of envy) that Richard Curtis is really the only well-known, successful and award-winning British screenwriter of the last 15 years. I find it a struggle to come up with any other screenwriters, I can only think of Tom Stoppard and Simon Pegg (an elite few anyway). So I was really pleased to see that the Film Council has commissioned a report into who actually gets hired to write British Films. The report was conducted by no other than my former Screenwriting lecturer at Royal Holloway - Susan Rogers. What did it have to say ? Well I missed the event on the 6th July, but the findings can be read on the below link. Its a one pager so not too long. In brief; of the 63 people that wrote films between 2004 and 2005, mostly were white, male and had previous / personal relationships with the commissioners of scripts. Hmmmm . . . I see the FC are hot on promoting women in screenwriting, perhaps it is time for Madame de Pompadour to put quill to parchment and write her own rom-com.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/information/news/p=D424399A1123f2CEC1SxY1561482&skip=
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