Our fingers and toes are crossed for WFT members Sinead O’Loughlin, Sarah Fenelon and Jennifer Davidson as they take part in this year’s Script Pitching Competition at the Galway Film Fleadh. This event will be live-streamed, and will take place on Sunday, 12th July at 12.00. Finalists will pitch their idea live online as a 90-second ‘Elevator Pitch’ to a virtual panel of industry judges and an audience.
A full list of this year’s finalists are:
Emmet McMullan ‘Insurrection’
Conor Dowling ‘The Chosen’
Stephen Murphy ‘The Follies of Herbert Lane’
Alice McDowell ‘Rainsong’
Sarah Fenelon ‘The Darlington Academy for Young Girls’
Thomas Ryan ‘Fred + Ginger’
Sinead O’Loughlin ‘A Better Forest’
Jennifer Davidson ‘My Brilliant Embarrassing Dad’
Brian MacIntyre ‘Riptide’
Ross White and Tom Berkeley ‘Songbird’
The winner will be announced at the online Awards Ceremony and will receive a cash prize of €3000. Further information can be found here.