Programming

SUMMIT
Write. Produce. Connect.

UK actors Ruth Wilson, Vicky McClure and producer Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor will be among the speakers at the inaugural Global Screen Creators Summit organised by The Writers Lab UK & Ireland, a development and marketplace programme for women and non-binary screenwriters aged over 40 years old.

The ‘Write Produce Connect’ Summit will introduce screenwriters, who participated in the European and UK lab programmes, to industry executives through panels and pitch meetings.

Further speakers include Kaos showrunner Charlie Covell; author Anne-Marie Imafidon; Katherine Butler, Sky Studios’ director of commissioning drama; David Kimbangi, Film4 senior commissioning executive; Rocks producer Ameenah Ayub Allen; and Element Pictures producer Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann.

It is produced in partnership with Content London, Lee & Thompson, Women in Film & TV (WFTV UK and WIFT Ireland) and Drehbuchforum Wien (Screenwriters Forum Vienna). It is supported by Sony Pictures Television, Gaumont, Screen Scotland, All3Media International, ORF, The Austrian Film Institute, and 5 Acts Productions.

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