Friday 29 January 2010, 13:48
The shortlist that goes to the judges has been decided and congratulations to the scripts and writers below:
This year recorded the largest number of writers applying for the Tony Doyle Bursary. There was a real range of stories from serial killers, to Belfast based domestic dramas to period romps. We were surprised there weren't more theatre or radio scripts - but as this was the first year that the criteria opened up it is possible that some writers didn't pick up on it. We did notice a tendency for some writers to confuse feature film scripts with hour long dramas for TV - a lot of covering letters said a script was for TV when it was actually for the big screen.
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Comment number 1.
ChrisW31st January 2010 - 7:37
The web site says 'A shortlist of 20 submissions will be judged by a panel of former associates'.
Does anyone know if the shortlist of 20 will be released?
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Comment number 2.
John Sheahan1st February 2010 - 22:07
Perhaps I'm misreading it but you seem to be saying that people wrongly submitted feature film scripts.
But the rules of entry stated the following:
3. The submission should be either a 60 or 90 minute script for an original television, theatre, film or radio drama.
So the submission could be a film script.
You can probably tell I was one of 113 other new writers who got the generic rejection email.
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Comment number 3.
Paul Ashton2nd February 2010 - 10:24
John Sheahan - no, it was more that some writers described their scripts as TV singles when in fact they were clearly feature films, so it was interesting to note that distinguishing between the two (they are very different) proves difficult for writers.
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Comment number 4.
ChrisW2nd February 2010 - 17:59
Paul Ashton, i was wondering if u could answer my question?
"The web site says 'A shortlist of 20 submissions will be judged by a panel of former associates'.
Does anyone know if the shortlist of 20 will be released?"
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Comment number 5.
Paul Ashton4th February 2010 - 15:36
ChrisW - no we're not publishing the longlist online, but we will tell the longlisted writers privately that they reached that stage
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