Save Our Scripts WON'T OPEN A CALL FOR APPLICATIONS THIS YEAR.  Please check back this Autumn for news about 2013.

Thanks for your interest and thanks to the amazing participants of the last two years workshops.

SOS team

Last night Henry Darke's COMING UP short film Hooked was broadcast on Channel 4. Catch it on 4oD in the next days...

Congratulations Henry!

Check out screenwriters and comedians Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's new guide for hopeful screenwriters: Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!

Applications now open for the UnionDocs Collaborative in Brooklyn, New York, an exciting year-long program for non-fiction media research and group production!

Application deadline for non residents is on July, 22nd

check it out!

Harry Wootliff, who attended the first edition of SOS, has just been selected at LES ATELIERS, Premiers Plans D'Angers, with her project EATING THE ELEPHANT.

While Tristan Goligher was in NYC presenting his film WEEKEND directed by Andrew Haigh at BAMcinemaFEST, Valentina Brazzini was in Edinburgh launching the latest project from The Bureau. It's called Collabor8te, a new scheme for short film writers created with Rankin and DazedTV. Our new collaboration was launched presenting a selection of inspirational short films yesterday during EIFF 2011. Read about it on Dazed Digital.

Last day of writing for the selected 2011 participants: after a week of woskhop last may,  a one to one development meeting half way through the work on their treatments, a few drinks and dinners and many many days of writing, the first module is about to come to an end.

We're grateful to our amazing 15 writers for having egaged so generously with the development process and we're looking forward to seeing the results!

This year's MEDIA European Talent Prize has been awarded to the scriptwriters Virág Zomborácz from Hungary and Hanna Sköld from Sweden for their film scripts for Afterlife and Granny's Dancing on the Table. Afterlife was developed through the first and second module of  SOS 2010. Read more...

RUTH PAXTON's project SHOWLAND has been selected for the next BINGER FILM LAB! Congratulations RUTH!