Funding for Screenwriters: Where Do You Actually Start?
Helen Tompson shares lessons from her own experience in securing funding for projects, from researching opportunities to getting something useful out of the process, whatever the outcome.
Helen Tompson is a screenwriter, script reader, adjudicator and creative learning consultant whose work focuses on character-led storytelling and overlooked perspectives.
She has developed projects across film and television and has experience of applying for and working with a range of industry funding and development opportunities, including BFI NETWORK funding, regional film funding and short film competitions.
Her first short film, Like Buses, was funded through CenterFrame and she has subsequently secured funding for training, mentoring, schemes and resources.
She also works as a script reader, mentor and educator, and writes The Business of Screenwriting, a newsletter exploring the practical realities of building a career as a screenwriter.
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