Storyhouse Lab
Storyhouse, a new annual festival which champions, cultivates and celebrates the art of storytelling for the screen will be held in Dublin’s Light House Cinema on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 March 2024.
Speakers announced for the inaugural Storyhouse include Academy Award© nominee Tony McNamara (Poor Things, The Favourite, The Great), Academy Award© nominee and recent BAFTA winning screenwriter Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall), two of Britain’s most exciting new voices, Molly Manning Walker (How to Have Sex) and Charlotte Regan (Scrapper), as well as novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls (One Day, Patrick Melrose) and writer-director Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider, Border).
Full details & tickets here.
Storyhouse Lab
In parallel with the main event storyhouse is also issuing a call out to new and developing screenwriters, inviting them to apply to take part in Storyhouse Lab, the first iteration of a unique interactive programme. The lab will provide a small cohort of emerging writers with complimentary access to all storyhouse events as well as additional focussed sessions with our guests under the mentorship of bafta and ifta winning tv and film screenwriter malcolm campbell (what richard did, bad sisters). The participants in this group will be carefully selected to promote new, diverse, inclusive and gender balanced voices.
The deadline to apply is Friday 1st March. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday March 8th. The Lab will be free of charge for all participants.
Apply here.