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Rory Potts

Screenwriter
Writer, Producer, Actor, Director.

About Me:

Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: Story structure, 2nd AD

Training:

2013 - 2015
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol Acting Academy
2016 - 2017
Theatre Royal Bath, 18-25s Theatre School (Devising)
2019 - 2019
National Film and Theatre School, Intro to Short Filmmaking
2019 - 2019
National Film and Theatre School, Directing the Short Film
2019 - 2019
Raindance Film School, Filmmaker's Foundation
2019 - 2019
Raindance Film School, Director's Foundation
2018 - 2021
King's College London, Comparative Literature

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My Work and Credits:

I'm Not In Love

About: After receiving a marriage ultimatum from a woman he's not sure he truly loves, Rob is up against the clock to realise he should stop looking for the fabled 'Miss Right' and learn to see what's right in front of him.

Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Une Partie de Campagne - Jean Renoir/L'Eclisse - Antonioni/Voyage to Italy - Rossellini/Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis

I cried watching:

Lord of the Rings

I left the cinema during:

Amelie

Directors I love:

Jean Renoir, Luis Bunuel, Noah Baumbach, Safdie Brothers

Actors I admire:

Joaquin Phoenix, Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Michel Simon, Meryl Streep

Writers I Respect:

Charlie Kaufman, Sam Shepard, Shakespeare

My desert island discs:

There are too many to list.

Books I have given my friends:

Middlemarch, The Remains of the Day

My death row meal:

Beefburger or Steak

The best thing I own:

My lease on life