My Details
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Great Britain , South East
Current Work Details
- Where I work
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I am an individual working from home
- Resources / Expertise
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I write original scripts and I am best at writing dialogues according to professional readers. I can cook for the crew! I can write French subtitles.
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Shooters Q&A
- Films I wish I had made
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West Beyrouth, He loves me,He loves me not; Full Monty, The Piano Teacher, Il Postino, The Vanishing,Cinema Paradiso, Miracle in Milan, Osama, The Barbarian Invasions, Battle Royale, Educating Rita, Jeux Interdits, Tsotsi, Volver, London to Brighton and another hundred of them.
- I cried watching
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I cried when I was nine watching Immitation of Life with Lana Turner.A rare anti-racist film of the 50's.
- I left the cinema during
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Reservoir Dogs (sorry)
- Directors I love
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Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Patrice Leconte, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Polanski, Joseph Losey, Sergio Leone, Tornatore, Pasolini, Bunuel, Vittorio de Sica, Almadovar, Coline Serreau, Amenabar, Michael Cimino,Ang Lee, Stanley Kubrick and hundred more
- Actors I admire
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Jody Foster, Christopher Walken,Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert,Kate Winslett, Kenneth Branagh. Jeremy Iron, Julie Walters, Morgan Freeman, Carmen Maura, Gong Li...
- Writers I respect
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I respect them all but love a lot of them.
- My desert island discs
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Shostakovich’s waltz from the Jazz suite No 1 to glide above the palm trees, Rock Around the Clock to climb the coconut trees, Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair to remind me of Yorkshire, Jean-Jacques Goldman to remind me of France, Sound of Silence to put up with it, music theme of the Magnificent Seven to keep hope,and, to give me the illusion there is a god, Bach’s cantate Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire and the Beatles' Let It Be while I am dying on the sand.
- Books I have given my friends
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The Perfum by Patrick Suskind, Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehman, Hundred Year of Solitude by G. Garcia Marquez, Le Sabotage Amoureux by Amelie Nothomb (Loving Sabotage)The Sound and the Fury by W. Faulkner, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Tintin, Spirou and French Grammar Made Simple.
- My death row meal
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I would eat poisoned French cakes and Trogneux's chocolates so that I would die before being shot, electrocuted, hanged or beheaded.
- The best thing I own
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Without computer + bike + mobile, I would be growing cabbages in my garden.
- More about me
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I gave up teaching in schools to teach part time in a prison. I also write for the theatre and the theatre for children.
Shooting People stuff
- Joined
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29/4/2005
- Recent Bulletin Posts
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30/6/2009 Script Reading Service suggestions?
30/6/2009 Re: Watch Toast on Film of the month leaderboard
1/6/2009 Re: Should SP be a forum.
6/5/2009 Re: Films on the International Space Station
28/4/2009 What makes you write in
28/4/2009 The best Script Editing courses in London
28/4/2009 A: My African immersion experience documentary - what CAN I do with IT? ANY SUGGESTIONS????
28/4/2009 Re: Film Of The Month: Teen Angst.V Old dear angst
25/3/2009 10 Stupid Mistakes Screenwriters Make
23/3/2009 Re: !! Stupid is film of the year in..... the News of the World !!
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