Irish screenwriters Brian Ó Tiomáin and Shane Grealy Perez have been chosen as part of a group of nine European writers to attend the latest Equinoxe screenwriting workshop currently being held in Elmau, Bavaria in Germany.
The residential workshop sees experienced industry advisors work intensively with screenwriters on selected scripts. Advisors include James V Hart, writer of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ and renowned script supervisor Angela Allen, who started her career on ‘The Third Man’ and went on to work with countless luminaries, including 13 of John Huston’s films.
Brian Ó Tiomáin is from Dublin and writes in Irish and English and has won prizes in the Oireachtas Irish language literary awards over the last five consecutive years. He has been selected for Équinoxe with ‘Dublin Stories,’ a coming of age story about two inner city boys growing up on the periphery of a gang war.
Transplanted New Yorker Shane Perez resides in Galway and comes to Équinoxe with his screenplay ‘Blood & Sand’ which tells the tale of a soldier serving in Iraq who discovers he fathered a son during the first Gulf War 14 years earlier. ‘Blood & Sand’ won Best Screenplay at the London Independent Film Festival in March 2009.
The Équinoxe Screenwriting Workshop runs twice a year and the next workshop will be taking place in the West of Ireland in April 2010. The deadline for submissions for said session is the 3rd November 2009. For more information see www.equinoxegermany.org
