WIN tickets to the London Screenwriter's Festival!

The London Screenwriter's Festival 2011 is fast approaching (where has the time gone?!) and I am delighted to be a part of the Literary Department again this year as a script reader. We have a fantastic writing challenge for you this year and some AMAZING prizes...

Fancy winning TICKETS to the London Screenwriter's Festival? 
How about £250? A pile of goodies?

Wow, pretty cool, huh? But that's not it.

Fancy having your script PRODUCED? And not once, but MANY times?

I'm not kidding when I say ALL these prizes are available to the winner of the London Screenwriter's Festival's screenplay competition!

Produced MANY times, you ask? Yeah! The winning script will be made available to any film-maker out there to produce, film and upload to YouTube as part of the LSF filmmaking challenge! So YOUR script will be interpreted/produced multiple times. Exciting!

So, what do you have to do to win this amazing prize? A one page script. Yup, that's it. Easy, right?

Or is it? This is a unique challenge to all you writers out there. The theme: Four Days In August. I'm sure you're all aware of the life-changing riots that took place in London, Birmingham and Manchester last month.

What began as a peaceful march in relation to the police response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by police officers on 4 August 2011, a riot began in London. In the following days, rioting spread to several London boroughs and districts and eventually to some other areas of England, with the most severe disturbances outside London occurring in Bristol and cities in the Midlands and North West of England. Related localised outbreaks also occurred in many smaller towns and cities. Police action was blamed for the initial riot, and the subsequent police reaction was criticised as being neither appropriate nor sufficiently effective. The riots have generated significant ongoing debate among political, social and academic figures about the causes and context in which they happened.

The London Screenwriter's Festival wants YOUR stories reflecting your thoughts on the events.

Consider what happened before the events, what happened during them, and afterward? Who was involved and how? Why were they involved? What was the impact on their lives and of the lives of the people around them? And what does it mean to them, to you and to us all?

The one-page limit will be a great challenge; saying the most with the least. How will you get across your story in just one page?

Deadline: Midday GMT, 30th September 2011. So get writing!

For more information and FAQs, see the official screenplay competition page on the LSF website.

GOOD LUCK! :)