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I'm a multi-award winning scriptwriter and producer, who has had work shown in over 40 international film festivals and worked in the creative and corporate fields. My intelligent, tightly structured writing has featured in short films, features, TV and online series and viral marketing initiatives. I have the proven ability to create original concepts or write to order, depending on the needs of the producer or client. I have worked with Blue Zoo, MTV, Vermilion and Soup. Awards include best drama at the New York International Film Festival, second in The End Of The Pier Film Festival, finalist in the Super Shorts Awards and Winner of the main Jury prize at the 2008 Wood Green International Short Film Festival.
For
resume/treatments please go to my main website: http://www.scriptfirst.com/
I'm on imdb here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1987210/
My TV work includes:
THOSE
SCURVY RASCALS - One
of the writers: Peter Devonald
Logline: Those Scurvy Rascals follows the adventures of
three pant obsessed pirates who appreciate all the things a good pirate
should: a seaworthy ship, a well worn plank... but they're not interested
in treasure - all they want is pants, pants and more pants!
Genre: Animation series. Length: 5 minutes each episode.
Screenings/Status: Nickelodeon and other networks. ***Nominated
For British Academy Children's Film And Television Award 2006. Winner
of two top animation awards at the 10th British Animation Awards ceremony
- Best Children's Series and the Children's Choice Award***
Filmmakers: Directed by Oli Hyatt and Adam Shaw. Series creator
and main writer: Simon A. Brown
Prod co/ other details:
Blue-Zoo
Productions and Entara Ltd.
Website: www.thosescurvyrascals.com
and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0921644/
I've
had lots of short films produced, including:
GIRL LIKE ME (F.K.A. WASTED)
By Peter Devonald
Logline: Lucy is young. Lucy is pretty. Lucy is damaged.
Living with abusive, dysfunctional parents, her only comfort is strangers
and her sidekick Becks: She wants to be a woman, older, independent,
but how far will she go?
Genre:
Drama.
Length: 10 minutes each episode. Screenings/Status: Shot
on Super 16 between 15-17th April 2008.
Festival details to follow.
Filmmakers: Directed by Rowland Jobson.
DOP
- Robbie Ryan (Wasp, Brick Lane, Red Road, Cubs). Production Design
- Helen Scott (Wasp, The Bill, Red Road). Cast Includes Steven Elder
(Vanity Fair, Gallow Walker, Heartbeat). Producers Zoe Webster, Victoria
Wood, Rowland Jobson and Peter Devonald.
Prod co/ other details:
Seefood Film and TV. ***Wasted
won the London Borough of Haringey Film Award and is funded by Haringey
and Film London***
Website: http://www.seefood.tv/seefoodnews.htm
:
- ) by Peter
Devonald and James Appleton.
Logline: A group of
bored teenagers mimic tv shows by making video clips with 3G phones,
but peer pressure and a blurred sense of reality lead to a fatal accident.
Genre: Drama. Length: 10 minutes. Screenings/Status:
***Winner
of the main Jury prize at The 2008
Wood Green International Short Film Festival***
Main Actors: Casting
in association with the Norwich Young Peoples Theatre Company.
Filmmakers: Director - James Appleton. Producer - James
Appleton.
Prod co/ other details:
Signals Media
Arts and Electric Eye Productions.
Website: http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=56872D9C0ecbe0598BsXn239F408
WATCH HERE: http://www.jamesappleton.com/colonhyphenclosebracket.html
THE CALLING
by Peter Devonald.
Logline:
Two men, two lives, one moment.
Genre: Drama. Length: 2 mins 10
secs. Screenings/Status: Premiere: 7th August 2007 01zero-one,
Soho. SUPER SHORTS 2007: ***FINALIST (final 5)***. Selected for
the fifth round of the New Arrivals competition. Selected for screening
and in competition in the 2008
Wood Green International Short Film Festival.
Main Actors: Robin
Mcloughlin
and Michael Dacre.
Filmmakers:
Director - Jason Edwards. Producer - Andrew
Cameron.
Prod co/ other details: Vermilion Films. Super
16mm Anamorphic
Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1076787/
TOAST
by Peter Devonald and Kevin Scrantz.
Logline:
Ingmar's
perfect life of synchronisation comes crashing down when a mundane burning
becomes an existential crisis.
Genre: Comedy. Length: 8 minutes.
Screenings/Status: Premiere:
8th March, Bradford Film Festival 2006. Selected: Warrington Film Festival
2006. Selected: ***Second in The End Of The Pier Film International
Festival 2006***. Selected: The Deep Fried Film Festival 2006.
Screened: The Final Cut
Film Festival, Brighton 2006.
Selected: Heart of Gold International Film Festival 2007, Australia.
Selected: 10th Nuit du court métrage/ The Short Film Night of
Lausanne 2007.
Main Actors: Andrew
Bumfrey and Gillian Tully.
Filmmakers: Director - Steve Hammal. Producer - Steve Hammal.
Prod co/ other details: Funded
by Open Lens/ City-Eye - Screen South. Prod
co: Dark Skies Film.
Website:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805699/
WATCH HERE: BBC
website
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by Peter Devonald, Scott Rawsthorne and Kevin Scrantz.
Logline: A gun: from replica, purchase, crime, recommission
to murder.
Genre: Drama. Length: 12 minutes.
Screenings/Status: ***Winner: Best drama
- New York International Independent Film & Video Festival***.
Selected: L.A International Short Film Festival. Shown on MTV UK (13th
September 2005): ***Evening Standard Pick Of The Day***.
Selected: Filmstock International Film Festival 2006. British Council
sponsored.
Main Actors: Joyce Nettles casting. Stars:
Matthew Marsh, Alexandra Moen, Barbara Keogh, David Gyasi, Marcus Rogers.
Filmmakers: Director - Scott
Rawsthorne. Producer - Jon Shaikh/
Bernie Costello.
Prod co/ other details: Diamond Bullets/
MTV.
Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478961/
THE
JOURNEY (f.k.a HEAVEN) by
Peter Devonald and Katina Medina.
Logline: When
a child finds herself lost in 'the plaza', an ambiguous place isolated
between heaven and earth, an old man appears to help... But it's the
old man who must learn to take the final steps to freedom.
Genre: Drama. Length: 15 minutes. Screenings/Status:
Premiere
11th January 2006: Curzon, London.
Main Actor:
Lucy Joyce.
Filmmakers: Director - Katina
Medina. Producer - S. Chamberlain.
Prod co/ other details: 6 day shoot on 35mm: London Film School.
Website: http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=510149D2115c23934CNhO328E55A
BEGGARS
BELIEF
by Peter Devonald.
Logline: An affluent suited man begs on the street: a man, dressed
in rags, admonishes him. Who's life is richer?
Genre: Drama/Comedy. Length: 3 minutes. Screenings/Status:
Big Issue Film Festival (Nov 22nd 2004, Prince Charles Cinema), Community
TV (Nov 8th-22nd), Triggerstreet (official selection 2004), shown in
France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Canada, Senegal
and Korea through TresCourts, selected for The Homeless Film Night (Common
Place, Leeds, 18 Dec 2005), Nordkapp Film Festival 2005 and Capalbio
international short film festival 2005.
Main Actors: Adam Robertson and Simon Allix.
Filmmakers: Director - Scott
Rawsthorne. Producer - Bernie
Costello. Prod co:
Diamond Bullets (16mm).
Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472613/
END
OF THE WORLD
by Peter Devonald and Kevin Scrantz.
Logline:
The
end of the world is nigh - and Caroline makes sure her husband knows
it.
Genre: Comedy/ Drama. Length: 5 minutes. Screenings/Status:
Selected for screening and competition in the 2006 Talent Circle Super
Shorts Film Festival.
Main Actors: Caroline
Jay (Caroline) and Sean Brosnan (Keith).
Filmmakers: Director - James Appleton. Producer - Alex
Feakes.
Prod co/ other details: Waveform Films.
Website: http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=56872D800f3c636209xUv1513192
WATCH HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxx0orkbCU
Throughout my career
I've placed in screenwriting awards, including winner of the Haringey
Film Award (2007), semi-finalist in The British Screenplay competition
(2006), final shortlists for UKFC funding in London/ Midlands (2006),
nine Top Screenplays on Coppola's Zoetrope (2005-2001), Winner of The
Times award to attend the National Academy Of Writing (2003), Winner
of Raindance Live Ammunition (2003), top ten on Kevin Spacey's Triggerstreet
(2003) and final shortlist (18 from 2000) in the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge
(1993). My theatre and radio works have been short-listed three times
for the Woolwich Radio Playwrights Award (1996-7), shortlisted at the
11th Playwriting Festival (Warehouse, 1996), finalist at the International
Playscript Competition (1995), and winner of the London Playwright Of
Year (1992). I was also the judge/ mentor for the Sir Peter Ustinov
Television Scriptwriting Award (iEMMYS, New York, 2003-6).
James
Appleton - my main director collaborator - can be found here: James
Appleton
Website:
http://www.scriptfirst.com/
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