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Course Aims
To give the course participants the confidence and skills to make their own dramas to a much higher standard . The script exercise which will “change the way you look at every script”
Tutor:
SIMON HOOK Director/Writer – Biography
Simon has directed two one-hour episodes of the BBC Scotland show Rivercity, directed twenty three episodes (and written one) of the top rated children’s television series M.I.High for the BBC (made by the same company as Spooks)
and five episodes of Hollyoaks for Channel 4.
Before television he wrote and directed a series of successful yet diverse shorts: The micro-budget, 6.6.04 attracted Completion Funding from the UK Film Council, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and was nominated for Best British Short at the British Independent Film Awards.
His short script Knit Your Own Karma won the First Film Foundation/Sci-Fi Channel Short Film competition from over 2000 entries. Described by jury member Terry Gilliam as “poetic and beautifully structured”, Simon directed it in May ‘01 and it played nationally in UCI cinemas in front of Planet of the Apes. At the Britspotting festival in Berlin that year, it won Best Short Film.
Amongst his earlier shorts, Same Dog…Whitewashed won Southern Arts’ David Altshul Award for creative excellence in film-making and the Halloween Society’s Audience Prize in London and Paris. Later, Uncle Gilbert and the Hurlo-Thrumbo was
voted Best of Festival at Winterthur film festival and was sold for broadcast in the USA by PBS, in France by Canal+ and to Air Canada.
He is currently developing an original comedy series with Masses Entertainment.
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