Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays

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Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays includes detailed case studies of produced dramas made on both shoestring and bigger budgets, and industry insights from their writers, directors and producers. It looks in-depth at Scottish BAFTA-winning Night People, the iconic coming out movie Beautiful Thing (Film4, 1996), the touching New Orleans drama Hours , starring the late Paul Walker (Pantelion, 2013) and the ambitious true story of Saving Mr Banks (Disney, 2013), based on the battle of wills between Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers and Walt Disney himself.

Author Bio

Lucy V. Hay is an author, script editor and blogger who helps writers via her Bang2write consultancy. She is the associate producer of Brit thrillers Deviation (2012) and Assassin (2015), both starring Danny Dyer, and has consulted on a huge number of award-winning films over the past decade. Lucy is head reader for the London Screenwriters' Festival and has written several novels, including her crime fiction debut The Other Twin (2017, Orenda Books) and two other books for the Creative Essentials series: Writing & Selling Drama Screenplays and Writing & Selling Thriller Screenplays. She lives in Devon with her husband, three children, five cats and a bunch of African Land Snails.