"Appearing at BAFTA Rocliffe led to the film being optioned and to signing with a literary agent. You'll get few better chances of meeting people who may wish to collaborate with you in the future."

MUGS BY CHRISTOPHER BRAND - NOV 2009

"Immediately after New York, we got signed to an agency, and in turn had meetings with pretty much every major production company in London. We've had two scripts and one treatment optioned. This kick started our career and can be traced directly back to the BAFTA Rocliffe event!"

MAYFLOWER INVESTIGATIONS by THOMAS PHIPPS & PETER BOWDEN FEATURED AT THE NEW YORK TV FESTIVAL 2011

"It led to us working with some brilliant and inspiring industry professionals and being signed by an agent and Bwark Productions. We had been writing for years before winning the competition - it proved that we were right to keep going."

ANNEMARIE DRAYCOTT & CHARITY TRIMM - NEW YORK TV FESTIVAL 2011 WITH PHIL ROSENTHAL

Screen International Star of Tomorrow and twice BAFTA Rocliffe featured writer CLAIRE WILSON was signed by an agent the first time she was featured and her second feature BACK TO JACK, renamed WHERE THERE'S DARKNESS, is now with Element Pictures.

When three best friends - one tarnished LA It Girl, a Crocs-wearing mum and her nine-year-old son - embark on a hen do to Ibiza, unlikely lessons are learnt.

LADIES IN WAITING/GIRL HOOD BY OLIVIA POULET & LUCY BROWN WITH GUEST CHRISTINE LANGAN BBC FILMS Photo by Ed Miller

"The best advice I was given was: don't be afraid to throw away your best line. Behind that rather short and brutal sentence is the wider message not to be too precious with your work. It freed me up when I started out and it frees me up now."

INDUSTRY GUEST WRITER GUY HIBBERT TO BELFAST AUDIENCE NOV 2010

BAFTA ROCLIFFE NEW WRITING FORUM AT THE NEW YORK TV FESTIVAL 2012

GIRLS Showrunner & Exec Producer Jenni Konners with Matt Barry, Kayleigh LLewelyn, Sara Courtauld & Nicolas Small. Writing partners Matthew Barry and Kayleigh Llewellyn have had their winning script Grey optioned by Company Pictures. Sarah Courtauld is in talks to option her winning script. Whilst in NY, Sarah won a Hasbro Studios development deal with a Children's TV idea Buckle and Swash.

LONDON FORUM WITH JOHN MADDEN NOV 2012

GLAZVOROV by STEPHEN POTTS
A trainload of Tsarist Russians fleeing the revolution, Bolshevik partisans and the Glazvorov - savage but blind Siberian demons.
SHAFTED by TOBY COHEN
A group of Welsh miners who when faced with losing their jobs are inspired by the Chilean miners to fake their own disaster.
HEATED CURLERS by CLARE HEMPHILL
Inspired by the victory of winning Olympic Gold which dramatizes the cost, struggle and heartbreak of getting to that supreme moment.

Julian Fellowes advice to Rocliffers on getting your work out there:

"At the beginning, go for areas where your voice has the most chance of being left in your produced work and not gently edited out. Fringe theatre, review, radio, places where production is cheap enough and edgy enough for them not to be afraid of trying something new. Remember it is your voice, and not an imitation of someone else's, that will make things work for you, if they're ever going to. Send your script to your buddies to read, ask them to mark the script EACH time they get bored."

JULIAN FELLOWES TO ROCLIFFE AUDIENCE MAY 2011

"If you've had an idea that you've been mulling over for a while, there is no time like the present to start writing it. We wrote and compiled our BAFTA Rocliffe submission in the space of a week, and since winning it has quite literally changed our lives. Where there's a will, there's a way - pick up your pen and paper and get cracking!"
- Kayleigh Llewellyn & Matthew Barry

"As a live event BAFTA Rocliffe is nerve wracking, exposing and exhilarating in a way cinema rarely is. There is no hiding place. You can't charm an audience except with really engaging work."

WRITER DIRECTORS CHRIS AND BEN BLAINE ON BEING FEATURED