with screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum, now in its fifteenth year, is a platform for new writing and a networking event. Three script extracts from yet-to-be-commissioned writers are selected by an industry panel from an open call out. Award-winning screenwriter JULIETTE TOWHIDI read Modern Languages at Oxford University before training as a journalist with Reuters news agency. Juliette then worked as a script editor in Paris and London for Canal+ and Roman Polanski before turning to screenwriting full-time. Juliette credits include the original feature Calendar Girls, starring the Academy and BAFTA-winning Helen Mirren, which went on to win the Golden Wave Screenplay Award at Bordeaux Festival of Women in Film in 2004. Juliette recently wrote the adaptation of Vera Brittain’s First World War memoir, Testament of Youth and Love, Rosie. Juliette has a number of feature films in development including Notting Hill Carnival, The Brontes and The Ice Palace, whilst alsocontinuing to write the original BBC series Death Comes to Pemberley. BAFTA ROCLIFFE NEW WRITING FORUM WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2O14 // BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a writer, producer and founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forums. She is the author of Rocliffe Notes – A Professional Approach for Screenwriters & Writer- Directors. She has worked in film production for many years; forthcoming productions include Pressure with Danny Huston and Matthew Goode, Suite Francaise with Michelle Williams and Kristen Scott Thomas, and teen thriller Don’t Hang Up. She is a champion of new screen talent and has worked on many acclaimed directorial debuts including Rowan Athale’s The Rise and BAFTA nominee Tom Harper’s The Scouting Book for Boys, and has run talks and lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London, San Diego and Johannesburg. Thank you to the panel of industry experts: Alan McKenna Camille Gatin Celine Coulson Cynthia De Souza Dan Hubbard Emma Norton Georgina Carrigan James Floyd Jean Kitson Jon Croker Katie Goodson-Thomas Lauren Dark Len Rowles Mady Niel Max Pirkis Michael Berliner Susan Jacobson Tessa Inklaer Zam Salim BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca O'Brien, Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop and Dave Spikey. Moderator and Rocliffe Producer FARAH ABUSHWESHA [email protected] BAFTA Producer JULIA CARRUTHERS [email protected] Casting LAURA DICKENS [email protected] Artwork CARLO CRESCINI [email protected] Composers courtesy of CHANTELLE WOODNUT, Air Edel [email protected] Projection BAFTA PROJECTION TEAM [email protected] Find us on Facebook BAFTA BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum Follow us on Twitter @rocliffeforum @BAFTA Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies of their scripts or projects. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot provide contact details of attendees.