Consulting
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Script Reading, Editing and Coverage

The personal touch: let's go through your project together to determine the best way to make it work.
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Script Consultancy and Development

The face-to-face stuff, in person or remotely, let's work together on developing ideas, screenplays and training in the craft.
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Other Services

Seminars and workshops, jury membership, bespoke screenplays, copywriting and screenplay proof reading and translation.
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SCRIPT READING, EDITING AND COVERAGE

Having worked with internationally renowned script tutors such as Hettie Macdonald, Christian Routh and Ian Sellar (UK), Mark Travis (USA), Judith Weston (USA), Jacques Akchoti (France), Clarence Hamilton (South Africa), Martin Daniel (USA), Ken Dancyger (Canada), Arne Bro (Denmark), Gyula Gazdag (Hungary/USA), David Howard (USA) and Franz Rodenkirchen (Germany), I am a highly-trained script and story editor for both commercial and arthouse productions, offering assistance at every stage of the writing process.  

For me, story editing is not about imposing a structure onto a story, but more about finding the key impulses behind the writer’s decisions and motivations, and bringing them to the fore, allowing the essence of the hidden story to predominate. 

Previous clients include:

DV8 Films
Smarthouse Pictures
Namibian Film Commission
Cinema Suitcase
Synscope Entertainment
M-TV Hollywood Heart
For Film's Sake

RATES (July 2022)
Payment is 50% up front and 50% on completion.

Reading and Feedback notes (5-10pp)
Short script (up to 40 pages) - £165
Feature script (41 to 100 pages) - £415
Long feature script (more than 100 pages) - £525

Follow-on Consultancy/Development
1-hour initial discussion: script concept, market, project summary - £90
Table read and development sessions (online) - £80/hour
Full-day session - £695
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Package (feature length)
Script read, script notes, 2-hour discussion, second read, 2-hour discussion, final report: - £900*
*Scripts longer than 120 pages will incur a surcharge. 

Other services
- Logline and Synopsis writing 1-2pp £165
- Character Development and Breakdown £195
- Treatment (8-10pp) £495
- Festival-ready project pack (incl. all items above) £699 (20% off)
- Re-writing/co-writing POA
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VIEW SAMPLES
UK Feature Production (names changed to protect intellectual property; pdf download)
Namibian Film Commission  (.pdf download)

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CONSULTING
As a professional screenwriter, filmmaker and tutor, I am able to combine my own training, education and experience in real-world filmmaking with experience in screenwriting lecturing, tutoring and coaching, along with ongoing professional film research.

I have worked under and alongside the following internationally renowned script and filmmaking tutors:

  • Hettie Macdonald (Royal Court Theatre)
  • Sam Haillay (Third Films, via Film London)
  • Angeli Macfarlane (via Film London)
  • Christian Routh (ScripTeast)
  • Ian Sellar (UK)
  • Mark W. Travis (USA)
  • Judith Weston (USA)
  • David Howard (USA)
  • Martin Daniel (USA)
  • Esther van Driesum (Binger Filmlab)
  • Molly Malene Stensgaard (Danish Film Insitute)
  • Ken Dancyger (Professor of Film and TV at Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film, Television, & New Media)
  • Arne Bro (Danish Film School)
  • Gyula Gazdag (UCLA)
  • Franz Rodenkirchen (Torino Filmlab)
  • Jacques Akchoti (La Femis)
 
As a story editor I have also been hired by public and private film bodies in the capacity of story editor, or as a reader in film funding applications. I am also scriptwriting consultant at Soho-based Scriptwriter London, for whom I offer one-to-one consultancy and devise HE workshops.

  • I usually do one-to-one script consultancy work from my London offices. 
  • From these offices I also give scriptwriting courses and workshops through Scriptwriter London. 
  • ​I also offer distance (Skype) and on-site visits. 
  • See below for the service that suits your needs. 
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SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
​For writers, fine arts students and PhD candidates, this is a bespoke seminar that uses the fundamentals of story to help with the writing up of PhD dissertations, screenplays for fine art projects, or personal development. Rates are flexible and according to what you can afford. 

Previous clients include:

SPACE Hackney
NIDA Doctoral School
University of Roehampton
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JUDGE/JURY MEMBER
I have served as judge and/or jury member on behalf of film schools, funding bodies and film festivals. 

Previous clients include:

London Kurdish Film Festival (jury member)
Namibian Film Commission 
Attagirl (For Film's Sake/Screen Australia)
JMC Academy Martini Film Awards, Brisbane
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COPYWRITING
Whether it's writing fresh copy to get a business started, or rewriting tired content to kickstart your new personal or professional profile, we write innovative and visually arresting copy that can be used for pitches, presentations, websites or lectures. 

Previous clients include:
Simon Emmett Photographer and Filmmaker
Mandela Rhodes Place (Three Cities Hotels)
FOAM Amsterdam
Yahoo! TV
Groundglass
Swimsuit SA (Sports Illustrated)
Al-Jazeera English (Surprising Europe)
Hype Magazine
And Beyond
Cape Town Tourism
Getaway Magazine
Lonely Planet
Amazon Twitch

RATES
Hourly rate: £75 (minimum 3 hours per job)

Day rate: £550 (50% up front for new clients; jobs with 24-hour or weekend turnaround carry 50% surcharge)

Flat rate: Many jobs are charged a flat fee depending on requirements. These could include any or all of the following services:  

  • Face-to-face, project brief, strategy. Meet with client and discuss project proposal and desired outcomes.
  • Creative planning. Development of creative ideas and overall creative approach.
  • Research. The job may require independent research, including readings, archive material and interviews.
  • Technical Aspects. In some cases, the copy may be of a highly technical nature. This requires professional rigour and fact-checking.
  • Revision stage. Based on the client’s needs, up to three revisions of the copy take place.
  • Alternative versions. Where applicable, different versions of the original copy may be required by the client for different needs.
  • Further meetings. The client might wish to have further or ongoing meetings face-to-face during the writing and revision phase.
  • Third-party meetings. All parts of the client’s business might be relevant to the job, requiring a liaison with other business aspects or departments.
  • Other requirements. The job might include tasks outside the ordinary remit of copywriting, such as translation, html coding, visual matching, and so on.
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TRANSLATING AND ENGLISH ADAPTATIONS OF SCREENPLAYS
I provide translation work from Dutch, German, Afrikaans and French into English. In translating scripts, I use the nuances and stylistic characteristics of the scriptwriting style to create an English script, rather than merely an English-language version of the Dutch script. ​

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FOAM | Eyeworks | Topkapi Films
sample 1 ("De Boskampis", European Film Partners, .pdf)
"La Holandesa", Smarthouse Films
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BESPOKE SCRIPTWRITING

"If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage." So goes the saying. And I kind of agree with it.

I am a working professional screenwriter. My scripts have been selected for several international script programmes and markets, including IFP (New York), Berlinale Co-Production Market (Berlin), Scrawl (London) and Binger Filmlab (Amsterdam).

​I have also been hired by public and private film bodies in the capacity of story editor, or as a reader in film funding applications.
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RATES
Rates are determined on a project by project basis, but are all based on standard unionised rates as set forth by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.  

CONTACT
Contact us to find out more about our screenwriting commissions. ​
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