JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW
FROM PAGE TO SCREEN
Toby Jones in Frost/Nixon.
© Universal Pictures.
SAT 15 FEB /
PEARSE ST LIBRARY / 2PM
FREE BUT TICKETED
In recent years, some of the most
successful films at the box office
have been adaptations from popular
novels. This event will explore how this
adaptation process occurs. How does a
book get optioned for screen? Do you
need an agent and how do you approach
one? What do agents do and how do they
find books to bring to the screen? Writing.
ie’s Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin will quiz
industry insiders Camilla Young
and Conor Barry to find the answers
to these questions.
Having worked in the actors department
of Independent Talent for over two years,
Camilla Young joined Curtis Brown in
2010 and since then has worked with
Nick Martson, representing an amazing
list of both new and established writing
and directing talent across television, film
and theatre.
Conor Barry, founder of SP Films with
Brendan Muldowney, has produced
a number of award-winning features,
documentaries and short films. His
most recent production, Love Eternal,
which screens at this year’s festival, is an
adaptation of Kei Oishi’s novel In Love
with the Dead.
Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin is a publishing
consultant and literary scout, founder of
The Inkwell Group and Writing.ie, Vice
Chair of Irish PEN and the Irish adviser
to the Alliance of Independent Authors.
This event is held in association with
Dublin City of Literature and the national
online writing magazine, Writing.ie.
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION
FRI 21 FEB / IRISH WRITERS’ CENTRE / 4:30PM
FREE BUT TICKETED
Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird
Hosted by Laurence Mackin, Arts Editor
of The Irish Times, this panel gathers
together some of the most celebrated
writers and film-makers working in Ireland
to discuss the relationship between
books and film and how a literary voice
translates to the screen. They will also pick
out their own personal favourite scenes
of dialogue from film in a celebration of
screenwriting as fans and not just
as professionals.
The panel will include acclaimed Irish
author (and film festival regular) John
Connolly; British screenwriter Malcolm
Campbell, who has written for Skins and
Shameless, and who wrote the screenplay
for What Richard Did, loosely based
on Kevin Power’s novel A Bad Day in
Blackrock; Irish film-maker and lecturer
Pat Murphy, celebrated for her films
Maeve, Anne Devlin and Nora; Irish writerdirector
Michael Kinirons, well known for
his short film Lowland Fell, among many
others; and Darren Thornton, another
successful Irish writer-director who
received critical acclaim for his short films
Frankie and Two Hearts and the TV series
Love is the Drug.
This event is held in association with the
Irish Writers’ Centre.
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