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BRONA C TITLEY Head writer on new Channel 4 pilot Next Week’s News with Deborah Frances White. Writing on 'Tracey Breaks The News' and currently writing new cartoon comedy for Nickelodeon. STUART THOMSON Has BBC3 commissions. Feature is in prep, with two sitcoms optioned and in development. HENRY DALTON & PAUL COPE Work bought by Warner Bros, MTV, Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Productions; writing animated series for Tiger Aspect with Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh (Emmy-winning creator of Phineas and Ferb). 

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 ROCLIFFE AUDIENCE

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. Matt & Kayleigh are writing on Stella, Sara is working on the new Wombles series.

"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

Julian Fellowes advice to Rocliffers:

"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

"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