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Purge 2020 and get ready for 2021 in this fun, creative recharge workshop with Rachel Davies. You’ll harvest the learnings from 2020 and start saying goodbye to this big year. Then get…

André Nemec, showrunner and an EP on the Netflix series Cowboy Bebop shooting in New Zealand right now, joins the Big Screen Symposium line-up for an In Conversation. André has written and produced…

Scott Ryan, creator, writer and star of the exceptional drama series Mr Inbetween, joins BSS for a live-streamed conversation. FX has renewed this crime drama for a third season which is currently in…

"A pulse of vulnerability beats at the heart of Sam Kelly’s outwardly imposing but unexpectedly touching debut feature." (The Guardian) In this case study, Savage director Sam Kelly and producer Vicky Pope talk about how they navigated the long…

The BSS 2020 programme will be live from next week! Have you secured your ticket to join us for two days of conversations, workshops, panel discussions and case studies at #BigScreen2020?  …

Get the most out of your Big Screen Symposium experience by catching up on all the fabulous work our speakers have created. Click the speaker whose work you want to…

Script to Screen and janda productions are thrilled to announce that new dates have been secured for the 2020 Big Screen Symposium. The BSS will now be held 4 -…

Six storytellers (Sebastián Lelio (Una Mujer Fantástica), Cole Myers (Rūrangi), Emma Slade (SWAG), Maru Nihoniho (Metia Interactive), Te Kohe Tuhaka (The Dead Lands) and Leanne Pooley (We Need to Talk About A.I) deliver mini keynote addresses based on our theme…

Writers dream up characters for actors to bring to life. Actors know what makes a good screenplay. So when an actor puts themselves in the screenwriting chair, their unfair advantage…