2017: July meeting review and August news

Our August meeting and July report

6 August: Special guest Howard J Ford

Brighton & Hove’s award-winning independent film writer and director Howard J Ford will be talking about his work and his latest film ‘Never Let Go’, followed by audience Q and A.

Howard is known for The Dead (2010), The Dead 2: India (2013) and Never Let Go (2015), and is also an award-winning commercials director.

More about his work here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285683/

About ‘Never Let Go’

Written and directed by Howard J Ford, starring Angela Dixon

Winner: Best Independent Feature [The National Film Awards 2016]

Winner: Best Director, Best Actress and Best Film [Artemis Women In Film Festival Los Angeles 2016]

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8bWiGn9liU

www.neverletgomovie.com

July meeting review

Our July meeting saw our first Summer Party and announced the winners of the 2016- 17 Constance Cox playwriting competition

We are delighted to announce …

The Winners

First : ‘The Teaswell Incident’ by John Dutton Prize £150

This play will receive a studio recording by TBC Audio

Second: ‘Storm in a League Cup’ by Simon Josiffe Prize £75

Third: ‘Rock and Chips’ by David Weir Prize £50

Congratulations to John, Simon and David.

All three winners also receive:

A rehearsed ‘script-in-hand’ reading with a discussion before an audience of members, writers’ family and friends, with the winners as special guests

A recording of your reading at the meeting

A prize certificate

Thank you and well done to the four runners up:

‘Cash’ by Julia Norman

‘Distortion’ by Celia Dodd

‘The Other Apprentice’ by Randy Lee Gross

‘Will’ by Robert Cohen

We aim to present readings and discussions of the runners up at future meetings – dates and details to be notified.