Thursday 21st May | 18:00 BST
Hosted by Hannah Patterson, Playwright and Screenwriter, in partnership with BAFTA.

BFI NETWORK, Encounters Film Festival and Watershed, in partnership with partners including BAFTA and Channel 4 will be hosting a series of online Q&As with filmmakers live from their front room! Every Thursday evening in May we’ll be joined by a different guest; be inspired by their filmmaking journey, get advice on where to start on yours and keep your creative juices flowing!

This week’s host, playwright and screenwriter Hannah Patterson, will be joined by BAFTA nominated producer Farah Abushwesha, who created the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Competition. Farah has produced back catalogue of successful TV series and feature films that have aired on ITV (The Singapore Grip), BBC (The ABC Murders) and Netflix (Irreplaceable You), and is the author of Rocliffe Notes - A Professional Approach for Screenwriters & Writer-Directors and Rocliffe Notes - Low budget Filmmaking.

We’ll be discussing Farah’s approach to low budget filmmaking and how to think creatively when faced with limitations. We’ll chat about how to avoid writers block during lockdown, the best set-up for writing from home and ways to help stay feeling connected when writing in isolation.

#shortitout is brought to you by Encounters Film Festival, BFI NETWORK and Watershed as part of Depict 2020.