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Success Stories | The Writing StudioTriumphalthe craft of writing and the art of storytelling. Home Contact UsWell-nighUs Daniel Dercksen Success Stories Services Correspondence CoursesMucosaFilm Reviews South African Filmmaking Theatre The Beauty Of Incomplete Things DVD/ Blu-Ray Latest DVD Releases Latest Blu-Ray Releases Series Competitions Meditations Books for Writers TIPS Reading matter Links Search Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Success Stories If you want to add your name to our list of proud graduates, sign up for one of our Short Courses or Correspondence Courses and take your first step to success.  If you have completed a screenplay (or a play/novel) let us read your script and requite you translating on how to take the next step towards fulfilling your dream. It unchangingly rewarding to see words turned into whoopee without years of dedication, passion and willpower triumphal the art of storytelling and the craft of writing. Consuelo Roland,  a graduate of The Writing Studio, received tout for her Lady Limbo Novel (2012), and was Shortlisted for the Sunday Times FictionRibbonand received an Honorary mention for the Olive Schreiner Prize for her novel The Good Cemetery Guide.  Her latest novel Wolf Trap, typesetting II in the Limbo Trilogy is released on 25 October. 2017    Flipsideproud graduate of The Writing Studio, director-writer-producer Uga Carlini, changes lives in a profound way with the poignant documentary Alison, which  won the Best Documentary at the Asia Pacific InternationalMucosaFestival, without selling out at the Encounters InternationalMucosaFestival, and wowing crowds at its international premiere at Dances with Films Festival in Los Angeles.   Writer-director John Barker, a proud graduate of The Writing Studio, is turning politics inside out and upside lanugo with his wintry self-sustaining mockumentary Wonder Boy For President.     Henk Pretorius, who kick-started his career in 2008 by writing and directing the South African box-office hit, Bakgat!, moreover directed Bakgat 2  and produced Bakgat 3. Henk ripened and partially financed Bakgat, Hoofmeisie, and Wolwedans in die Skemer. In 2011 Henk took on the international mucosa festival spin and co-wrote and directed Fanie Fourie’s Lobola and most recently directed Leading Lady. Henk is the co-founder ofVisionlessMatter Studios, a successful production visitor based in the United Kingdom and South Africa and and co-produced Modder en Bloed that is released on April 1. Visit Website Sallas De Jager, who wrote the screenplays for the prestigious Afrikaans films Roepman and Verraaiers, co-wrote and produced Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux, produces and directs Free State, a forbidden love topic between a white girl and an Indian man during the  Apartheid system in South Africa, due for release locally on April 29. The mucosa has once made waves at InternationalMucosaMarkets and has been selected to screen at the 13th Chennai internationalMucosaFestival in India, and at the Pan AfricanMucosa& Arts Festival in February 2016. It will moreover be presented to international buyers during the Berlin and Cannes Festivals in 2016. Bonginhlanhla Ncube Director-producer Bonginhlanhla Ncube and screenwriter Carl Roddam, who attended several filmmaking and screenwriting workshops of The Writing Studio, released Safe Bet on March 11. Visit Website   Carl Roddam   Jasyn Howes wrote, directed and produced the experimental short mucosa A, Deadman. A short mucosa well-nigh a wounded man lost in a desert landscape. It will be screened from February 2016.  Watch this space.   2015 Riku Lätti and Jans Rautenbach in whoopee Shortly surpassing Jans Rautenbach’s death in 2017, an  exclusive Masterclass with Rautenbach and music maker Riku Lätti took place at The Artscape Resource Centre 0n 22 November, 2015.  Veteran filmmaker Jans Rautenbach and composer Riku Lätti, who collaborated artistically on the masterful South African mucosa Abraham.       2013/ 2014 Daniel Dercksen’s latest play The Beauty of Incomplete Things enjoyed its world premiere in 2014 Written, produced, designed and directed by Daniel Dercksen, The Beauty of Incomplete Things went through a miraculous 15-years transformation and minutiae process.  It was inspired by Dercksen’s play Yes, Masseur that was staged successfully at David and Renaye Kramer’s Dock Road Theatre at the Waterfront in 1995 (now demolished, where the supplies market at the Red Shed is situated). Mutating into its final typhoon without myriad rewrites, as well as six reading with actors throughout South Africa that helped shape its future, The Beauty of Incomplete Things enjoyed its world premiere in Cape Town on January 24, 2014, and had a successful run at the Joburg Theatre in July 2014. 2013 Producer, screenwriter and filmmaker Sallas de Jager , a proud graduate of The Writing Studio’s filmmaking and screenwriting workshop in 2006/2006, is born raconteur and has been telling stories through music as a member of the famous Afrikaans group, Klopjag, since 2002. He is not only a magician with lyrics and music, but he has moreover established himself as a competent writer, director and producer and screenwriter of increasingly than 13 music videos, theatre productions and full full-length films, including Roepman, Verraaiers, Musiek vir die agtergrond and Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux.Sallas was moreover the producer and scriptwriter of the prestigious Boer War film, Verraaiers and with two films that are due for release in 2013, as well as two scripts that are currently in development, it is obvious that a unexceptionable future lies superiority for this storyteller of note. In 2011 the NFVF scheduled him as one of nine young writers to partake in the Spark workshops in Cape Town in 2010 and due to the success of his involvement, he was remoter selected as one of four writers to protract with the Sediba Masters program in 2011. Writer, facilitator and self-publisher Gary Hirson changes the world > A graduate of The Writing Studio’s workshop in 2007, Gary Hirson has just launched his 3rd developmental interactive typesetting for the youth – The Journey that’s Ours, marking his 4th typesetting in total. One stuff a photographic coffee-table typesetting –LanugoThe Line. “My goal is to inspire the youth into understanding and yoyo in themselves, and that their goals and dreams are worth pursuing. This I do by the way of my books, talks at schools and goal-setting workshops which I facilitate. I moreover believe that one must have the valiance of their convictions which has resulted in all of my books stuff independently published.(After my publisher went out of business) This has been washed-up using the self- minutiae tools which I write about. One of the most zippy self-sustaining training initiative in South Africa, The Writing Studio has been presenting workshops and courses in scriptwriting and filmmaking throughout South Africa during the past 19 years with the aim of developing the craft of writers and filmmakers. The 19 years saw the lineage of many new, original scripts that reverberate the unique voice of South African writers, with stories reflecting specific cultures, experiences and histories that embrace universal qualities. At present, The Write Agency has increasingly than 20 fully ripened screenplays. It has never been a increasingly fruitful time to be a scriptwriter in South Africa. The production of local films and international co-productions have increased drastically during the last few years and everyone is looking for South African stories. The Write Agency has representation in Los Angeles and the UK with two former graduates of The Writing Studio. Read increasingly 2012 Teaming up with PANSA >A significant gravity of creativity and innovative opportunities prestigious the art of storytelling and the craft of writing with The Writing Studio and the Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA) teaming up to present workshops, story and play readings at the studio in Woodstock, Cape Town. The first workshop ‘The Drama of Writing a Play’, took 15 writers through the steps of writing a play and culminated in a successful performance of scenes from their work during the last session. NFVF’s Sediba Spark undertow >Mary Gumsley, who is a graduate of The Writing Studio and attended several workshops, was selected as one of the participants in the NFVF’s Sediba Spark undertow One-on-One with producers > Daniel Dercksen did an exclsusive workshop for Producer Alan Lawson and his writers on their screenplay for ‘Code of War’, that was pitched to producers in Dublin in May 2012 and is currently in development. “Thank you for an illuminating workshop. For the insight that I now have in the lineage of a script; expressly the minutiae of a front page, log line and tag line. I am still the producer at heart but with the couple of movies that I am nudging forward with minutiae I know what I am looking for in the scripts,.” says Producer Alan Lawson, Birdfilm (South Africa) Playwright Neil Coppen >Writer-director Neil Coppen, who is a graduate of The Writing Studio, won the StandardWallYoung ArtistRibbonfor Theatre, 2011. As the creator of Tin Bucket Drum and Tree Boy, and Abnormal Loads, his latest play Little Foot was vicarious by The Market theatre and premiered at the Grahamstown festival surpassing running in JHB. He then heads for New York with a tour of Tin Bucket Drum. And for those who missed Abnormal Loads, Neil is working on the screenplay and we will be worldly-wise to see it on the big screen. Says Coppen: “Daniels workshop offers an insightful and inspiring introduction into the craft and art of storytelling.Unconfinedmotivation to help one uncork that rather daunting and solitary task of transferring ones story from the imagination to the page.” Filmmaker John Barker > Writer-director Johan Barker, a graduate of The Writing Studio, released his mucosa 31 Million Reasons. This is the fictionalised story well-nigh local detective Ronnie, who has illusions of stuff whilom the criminal matriculation and desperately wants to wipe up his act. Ronnie is given the opportunity to go legit by a security guard… but only by orchestrating the biggest mazuma heist in South African history. 2011/2012 Success for Consuelo Roland > Consuelo Roland, a graduate of The Writing Studio, received tout for her Lady Limbo Novel, and was Shortlisted for the Sunday Times FictionRibbonand received an Honorary mention for the Olive Schreiner Prize for her novel The Good Cemetery Guide. Adventure of Supermama > Producer-screenwriter-director and esteemed journalist Karen van Schalkwyk attended The Writing Studio’s writer’s workshop tropical on 10 years ago. She was so inspired by the workshop that she wrote her first screenplay, Ren in 2003. Karen then unromantic to The BingerMucosaInstitute with the screenplay and was selected to be one of writers for a five month screenwriting undertow in Amsterdam in 2004. In 2006 she wrote her short film: The Adventures of Supermama which was distributed in cinemas nationwide by Ster Kinekor Distribution. In 2007 her partners, Damon Berry and Ben Tjibe under their visitor Googelplex Productions, remoter ripened the screenplay with the NationalMucosaand Video Foundation (NFVF) on their Spark and Sediba Writer’s programmes in 2009/2010. In July 2011 the Supermama was selected as three South African projects to shepherd IFP-No Boarders in New York (one of the biggest self-sustaining mucosa markets in the world) in September where she will pitch the mucosa to a variety of investors, distributors and sales agents. The Adventures of Supermama will go into production in 2012. Ren is still a work in progress but will be produced as a film. Karen has worked on numerous projects and continues to strop her craft as a writer/director. Script Editor and mentor> Daniel Dercksen worked as a script editor and mentor during three months of one-on-on sessions, Marc Le Plat’s script on a famous South African musical icon is now ready for minutiae and doing the rounds in Los Angeles. Marc attended two of the workshops surpassing writing a typhoon of his script. “You know the drill. Months of slaving yonder over the computer from midnight to dawn, placing your notation in action-inducing settings withal with some scintillating dialogue when, suddenly, you can’t see the wood for the trees? The train has is running at speed but out of track. At risk of mixing so many metaphors, screen-writing can sometimes seem like swimming through a mud suffuse – you know where you want to go, but you often end up off course. Which is why I found the one-on-one sessions with Daniel Dercksen of the Writing Studio invaluable in helping me realize a typhoon of my script that not only has pace, but a specified structure, emotive expansion and fully recognizable characters. One-on-one sessions enable you to get to the heart of your story, realize and write any fundamental structural flaws and proceeds insight into your notation in an intelligent, step-by-step fashion. As Miles Davis put it with regards to jazz: learn all the notes then just forget well-nigh them. What he was trying to say, I guess, is if you want to really learn to play jazz, get the structure right and then get lost in the music. Which is what I learnt in one-on-one sessions at the Writing Studio to to fully manifest my script.” Firelions > Writing Studio graduates Lisa Starr Jane and Nic Latouf have started a group in support or writers, filmmakers and performaers tabbed Firelions… Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre > Following three years of workshops at at the Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre in Kwa Mashu as part of their yearly Kwa MashuMucosaFestival resulted in the graduates to form their own writing and mucosa club, gathering a weekly understructure to protract sharpening their craft. 2010 From Page to Screen in two action-packed days > (reviewed by Gill Gimberg, Cape Town, October 30/31. 2010) Those of us who write tend to spend our days (and nights) scribbling yonder busily in our cells. It can be lonely: there’s usually nobody virtually to vellicate ideas off. And treating a dose of writer’s woodcut without a handy ‘nurse’ is right lanugo there unelevated frying in hell on our lists of favourite pastimes. What we need – often – is an injection of focus, inspiration and shared creativity. And The Writing Studio’s workshop, From Page to Screen, is just the thing to get those words and images circulating again. Writing for a visual medium such as mucosa or theatre is an art and, if you’re like me, you tend to overwrite considering you’re increasingly familiar with writing prose. That’s when you need a couple of actors, a first matriculation director and a cameraman at your disposal, to bring those words to life and show you how it should be done. Tall order? It seems not, with Daniel Dercksen’s passion for mucosa and theatre, training and facilitating skills, and the widespread generosity of four experienced directors and a hot-shot cameraman. We arrived on Saturday morning with sleeves rolled up and ready to work. And work we did. The first day was spent distilling the essence from our concepts. We went through the importance of choosing the right title, how to write a premise, how to bring notation to life, what exactly is meant by the theme of a script or screenplay and a lot more. In the evening, lightly armed with our typhoon top sheets, we went home to write our scenes. Big deal: a two to three-minute scene, with two characters. Should be easy enough. Well, it wasn’t, but somehow we all pitched up on Sunday morning at 10:00 – some increasingly bleary-eyed than others – clutching  our A4s and ready for the next hurdle. This turned out to be a pitch to the directors. The names were intimidating enough: Christopher Weare, Amy Jephta, Hennie van Greunen and Tara Louise Notcutt. I think we were all terrified, but they weren’t at all intimidating in the mankind and by 11:45 we were working with our directors and cameraman, Mark Chipps. By 12:30 the first mucosa was stuff shot and by mid-afternoon the filming was finished. Now we just can’t wait to see the edited films. The workshop gave us all the opportunity to co-direct under expert guidance, act in each other’s films, watch a professional cameraman in whoopee and learn, learn, learn. It was nonflexible work, but the joy of seeing your own script come to life is worth every waif of sweat. Writing a script is a tough journey, but with the right guidance, the odd reality trammels and some unadulterated fun, the end could be in sight. The WriteNotation> The Writing Studio introduced a new ‘The Write Characters’ workshop in Johannesburg. 10 writers were taken through the process of developing their premise, concepts and characters, and wrote a pivotal scene from their screenplay. The writers pitched their concepts to directors Bromley Cawood (Egoli, Susanna van Biljon), Henk Pretorius (Bakgat 1 & 2), Karen van Schalhwyk (Adventures of Supermama) and Christo Compion (Egoli, Susanna Van Biljon). 4 Concepts were selected and the directors put on the hat of teamleader, guiding the writers through the process of directing a scene from their screenplays (currently in development). The writers took on the role of directors and other witers in the group (and plane teamleaders) doubled up as actors. The scenes were rehearsed and filmed during the afternoon. 48 HourMucosaProject > The 48 HourMucosaProject .. An international short mucosa competition took place in Johannesburg at the whence of October. From the 24 registered teams, 22 made it to kick-off, 20 made it to waif off and 12 made it on time! Three of the teams featured graduates of The Writing Studio. Produced and Directed by Bonginhlanhla Ncube (Mr. B), Written by Carl Roddam and Deon van der Merwe, Music by: Jollaine, Courtesy of Jollaine Music, Ascap. Wrong Call, received awards for Best Producing and The Most Hype and a nomination for Best Visual Effect. Others were Karen van Schalkwyk’s production visitor Googleplex Productions presented ‘The Goal’, Nic Latouf presented ‘There’s Something well-nigh Desmond Writer-director John Barker strikes gold with Bunny Chow > Writer-director John Barker, who attended The Writing Studio’s first workshops in Johannesburg and received tout for his topnotch full-length Bunny Chow, has two features going at the moment ‘The Umbrella Men’, and ‘Jack Nimble’, an improv mucosa set in JHB. Writer-director John Barker ‘s Bunnychow is wowing audiences Writer-director Henk Pretorius makes an impact with Bakgat! > 26-year-old filmmaker Henk Pretorius, who is the writer-and director of Bakgat!, the first Afrikaans full-length mucosa primarily produced for a youth market, attended one of The writing Studio’s first workshops in Pretoria in 1998. Pretorius’s sequel to Bakgat was released in 2010 and was a huge success. Henk Pretorius talks well-nigh Fanie Fourie’s Lobola  Henk Pretorius talks well-nigh Bakgat Henk Pretorius talks well-nigh Bakgat 2 Writer Gary Hirson Gary Hirson , who attended The Writing Studio’s weekend workshop for writers in 2007, took a unvigilant step forward and self-published his children’s book, ‘The Magic That Is Ours’, causing a sensation in bookstores. He has just released his second typesetting The Power that’s Ours.  See 2013 2008/ 2009 Director Stephen de Villers >Stephen de Villiers, who attended The Writing Studio’s MasterMatriculationfor Screenwriters for the Talent Campus at the SithengiMucosaand TV Market in Cape Town in November 2006, as well as a Workshop For Scriptwriters that took place in Durban in December 2007, completed his studies in directing at the AFTRS in Sydney. Three Cigarettes enjoyed its premiere at this year’s Durban InternationalMucosain 2008. In 2012 Stephen was selected to uncontrived Durban screenwriter Janet van Eeden’s A Shot In The Dark, which starts filming in August 2012.Volatilityscript selected for Sithengi Writers’ Forum > Lynette Peckover’s script for volatility that was selected for the Sithengi Writers Forum in 2005 has now been published as a typesetting ‘The Sacred Rainbow’. Lynette Peckover, who attended one of our courses in 2004, is proud to have her typesetting released on www.Raiderbookshop.com – It can be found in the “Adventure” genre and is moreover misogynist on Amazon and Kalahari.net “I took your very good teach and spent last year searching for a publisher.Withoutsending to 52 publishers and teachers in the UK and USA I got wonted on my 53rd try! I was unswayable not to requite up and didn’t superintendency if I sent to a 100! This is the 1st in a trilogy and they have well-set to do all three.” Peckover’s son, L D Hinds, has moreover been published by the same publishers and his story can be viewed also, under the “Mystery” genre. It’s titled “The Hidden Dream” – theoretically not worldwide to have a mother and son published at the same time by the same publisher! “Am grateful for all the teach and tutorship you gave me and teach all aspiring writers to not requite up. All it takes is focusing on your dream and yoyo in it! “ Workshops at Kwa MashuMucosaFestival > During a week of intense writing and creativity at the Kwa MashuMucosaFestival in KwaZulu Natal, The Writing Studio took a group of learners through their paces of writing a screenplay for full-length mucosa and ended up with three short scripts that are now ready for development. 2007 Screenplay optioned for Hollywood > Prolific Cape Town scriptwriter, Dennis Venter, who attended one of The Writing Studio’s first workshops for scriptwriters, and writer of Home Affairs, Interrogation Room, Stokvel, Madam & Eve, has optioned his screenplay The Fubars to Hollywood-based Original Content Productions. The Fubars will mark the directorial debut of Nick Powell, who started his career as a stunt director and later move to second unit director (Braveheart, The Bourne Identity, The Last Samurai, Cinderella Man, The Hours, Magdelene Sisters). The mucosa title is the name of a wreath turned wall robbers. It stands for ‘fucked up vastitude all recognition’. In this visionless comedy, the band’s name becomes all too real when they decide on robbery to fund their careers. Original Content’s Jim Thompson, producer of the upcoming Diamonds in the Rough and War starring Jet Li and Jeremy Statham, describes the thriller/black-comedy script as twisted, funny and original. Venter is a published tragedian and his career as a television writer was launched on the Penguin sitcom SOS. He has been involved as a writer on Going Up, Stokvel, Madam & Eve, Charlie Jade, Brothers in Law, Shooting Stars, Interrogation Room, Divers Down, Kululeka, Fela’s TV, Home Affairs. Gary Hirson self-publishes children’s typesetting > Gary Hirson , who attended The Writing Studio’s weekend workshop for writers, took a unvigilant step forward and self-published his children’s book, ‘The Magic That Is Ours’, now causing a sensation in bookstores. “The workshop enabled me to write and read my work without feeling insecure well-nigh my abilities, says Hirson, a professional photographer, businessman and wannabe writer with a keen interest in the magic of creativity. This is his first published work. Through this typesetting he hopes to help children understand the power of their imagination, and help them realize that they can manifest anything they set their minds to.See 2013 2006/ 2007 New play tours to London > Alistair Moulton Black, who attended one of our workshops for scriptwriters, co-wrote the play Sylvia’s Ball with Oliver Stephens. Sylvia’s Ball is a tribute to two-face Alistair’s mother, Sylvia, who made a miraculous recovery from terminal exenterate cancer by combining volitional and western forms of healing. The play captures her journey using mobile phones and pointed questions creating a 15 minute documentary traversing and weaving through a story unfluctuating to us all. Sylvia’s Ball previewed at The Universal Hall, Findhorn Scotland in November of 2006. It has since toured to London, performed at the Landor Theatre, Clapham North, to Buxton Opera house and the ‘paupers pit’ and then then at the 2007 Grahamstown National Arts Festival and at the Obz Café Theatre. Sylvia’s Ball is a refreshing mix of upper energy physical theatre and suggestive documentary. This is storytelling that will leave you questioning what it ways to live on a planet suffering from environmental cancer. Masterclass at Talent Campus at SithengiMucosaand TV Market > Daniel Dercksen was invited to present a Masterclass for the Talent Campus at the SithengiMucosaand TV Market in Cape Town in November 2006, and facilitated a ‘Directing Actors’ workshop with well-known two-face Eriq Ebouaney. In December 2006 he was invited to present a second week long workshop at the Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre in Kwa Mashu as part of their yearly Kwa MashuMucosaFestival. Afrikaans short mucosa script a winner at Moondance Festival > Liezel van der Merwe’s short mucosa ‘Vis’ is one of the winners in the Moondance 2006 Festival. Liezel attended our scriptwriting and directing workshops, and ripened the script through The Write Agency. 2005 Selected for Sithengi Writers Forum > Lynette Peckover, who attended one of our courses in 2004, was selected to shepherd the Sithengi Writers Forum. “As a rookie script writer, I’m very excited that my script for volatility ‘The Rainbow’ has been wonted by the Writers Forum,” says Lynette. ” “I’ve unchangingly believed in my story which is unique to Southern Africa. It’s a quest by two San Bushman and their unprepossessing friends to avenge the slaughter of the Eland antelope, and during their journey they are faced with many obstacles. Only their weighing in the Gods and themselves helps them unzip the outcome. I am passionate well-nigh our ethnic peoples and finger that not unbearable is known and appreciated well-nigh them; hence my wish to promote an sensation of their place in our new South Africa’s history.” “Many thanks to Daniel for firstly the workshop I attended; and secondly for the guidance he gave in putting my story into the correct format. We are all fortunate to have the wealth and wits you provide, and your transferral to the industry, which to a new pupil can be very daunting! As you stress in your workshops, you have to believe very firmly in your stories!” Screenplay ripened through NFVF > Lucky Ndlovu was sent by the NFVF to shepherd a workshop in Aucklandpark. This was followed by the CorrespondenceUndertowfor writers. Lucky’s short script ‘Silent Death’ was successfully evaluated by The Write Agency and is now in development. “I was truly inspired by the workshop in a sense that I am now in a position to write, structure a proper and sellable screenplay. The way Daniel took us through out the whole session I felt like I was doing a full time script writing course. The knowledge that I now possess is greater and I will definitely make use of the tools he gave us. With people like us (script writers) he encouraged us to go and watch a lot of movies and that I found it great, considering this gives us creativity to the extent that we will view the movies in flipside manner. In future, this will make me not to miss any of his workshops and alimony up inspiring people.” Workshops at Kwa MashuMucosaFestival > Daniel Dercksen took 20 writers in rural KwaMashu in KwaZulu Natal through the paces of stuff a scriptwriter. At the end of the week the group completed the first drafts of nine short films that are currently stuff evaluated for future development.PolityTheatre Play > Marlon Parker attended one of our workshops. The Writing Studio helped him in fleshing out his polity theatre based play ‘The Adventures of Henry and Charlie “Vrinne Forever” and transfer it to mainstream theatre in Cape Town. says Marlon Parker .”Many thanks to Daniel for firstly the workshop I attended; and secondly for the guidance he gave in putting my story into the correct format. We are all fortunate to have the wealth and wits you provide, and your transferral to the industry, which to a new pupil can be very daunting! As you stress in your workshops, you have to believe very firmly in your stories!” 2004 Screenplay in competition at Sithengi Festival > Daniel Dercksen’s screenplay for the full-length mucosa ‘Tjommies’ was in competition at the Sithengi Writers Forum, and received unconfined response from potential producers and developers, and is currently in minutiae 2003 Screenplay selected for Sithengi Wrires Forum > Brenda Alford’s script ‘The Mendi’ (that ripened out of one of our workshops and through one-on-one sessions) , was selected as one of 14 script to be presented at the Writers Forum at the 8th International SithengiMucosaand Television Market in Cape Town. ‘The Mendi’ won the ribbon for BestWhoopeeat the SithengiRibbonCeremon and Brenda was given a FinalTyphoonby Dr Eubulus Timothy of Eubulus Productions, who expressed interest in reading the script. “I was one of 14 script writers selected to present scripts to producers at the SithengiMucosaFestival in 2003, ” says Brenda. “The Mendi won the ribbon for Best Action. I must say a big thank you to Daniel and the Writing Studio for all the help and time spent with me to get this script into shape.Moreoverthe unvarying update of information to alimony us writers up to stage with what’s happening in the market place. I would never have known well-nigh Sithengi if it had not been for that fateful e-mail you sent… I moreover found the workshop motivational and at times I still refer when to the notes or when needing inspiration, flip unshut my notes and read an excerpt.” 2001 Screenplay for Moondance Festival > One of the scripts that was ripened through The Writing Studio with blood, sweat and tears during a period of three years, ‘Phumzile’s Beads’, was a finalist in the renowned MoondanceMucosaFestival – the epical screenplay of , written by Marian Shinn, is now stuff read by producers in New York and Germany. “Without guidance from The Writing Studio on the structure of the story and the discussion of ideas it is unlikely that my script would have got as far as it did…”, says Marian Shinn. Copyright © 1999 – 2017  Daniel E. Dercksen/ The Writing Studio Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogleRedditPinterest 2000 - 2018 © The Writing Studio & Daniel Dercksen. All rights reserved. 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