Firestyle Magazine: Issue 6 - Winter 2016

CLAPPERBOARD
Maureen Sinclair & Colin Farrell
carol fundraisER
Clapperboard UK celebrated Christmas with a Clapperboard Presents fundraising event in partnership with
Liverpool Pride, and in memory of the late Liverpool BAFTA Award winning writer Arthur Ellison (Brookside, The
Street, Accused and Moving On) who sadly passed away last October. This quote from acclaimed writer Jimmy
McGovern who worked with Arthur says it all...
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“Arthur Ellison could talk for England.
One night he got his jaw broken in a
fight outside a pub, that shut him up
for a while and, unable to speak, he
resorted to writing. It was good so
he kept at it. He wrote for Brookside,
Hollyoaks, The Street, Accused and
Moving On. His scripts were always
about real people facing real
problems in real streets, always full
of humour and passion and energy.
He was a wonderful storyteller.”
Arthur Ellison and Jimmy McGovern. Jimmy
McGovern said ​ ​“I’m a great admirer of
Maureen Sinclair and what she has achieved
through her dedication and commitment to
the Clapperboard Youth Project, with very
little funding. It’s a wonderful creative way of
empowering young people and giving them
an opportunity that most of us never had”.
Award winning feature film
CAROL tells the story of a
young woman in her 20’s,
Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara
won an Oscar for her role), a
clerk working in a Manhattan
department store and
dreaming of a more fulfilling
life when she meets Carol
(Cate Blanchett), an alluring
woman trapped in a loveless
convenient marriage.