tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928914821219288722024-02-07T22:41:10.825+00:00Louise Pennington - novelist scriptwriter playwright ...Novels include: Jessica's Lover, The Stalking of Eve, The Diplomat's Wife, Sins of Angels, The Dream Breakers...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-38990112487397134672018-03-09T15:17:00.001+00:002018-03-09T15:21:22.614+00:00AFRAID...
Been a while, but am now back and working on a thriller, AFRAID, set in the the South Downs near Brighton. Have interest...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-47554352329750255852017-10-08T14:59:00.000+01:002018-03-09T15:24:35.057+00:00Leaving Baby...... up for consideration by award winning director Alain Kramer.
'A young guy looking for a one-night stand ends
up literally holding the baby...'
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-47222445585734358402016-07-12T15:54:00.000+01:002018-03-09T15:25:46.883+00:00THE LET...
A
beautiful,
narcissistic woman fools estate agents into letting her luxury properties then
walks away with the contents - until rent-boy Caleb gets in the way.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-47778555323941635552015-07-08T14:58:00.000+01:002015-09-21T09:56:59.776+01:00Oscar Moore..."Overdue congratulations go to Script Factory friend, Louise Pennington, whose screenplay Don't Stop Breathing was short-listed for the prestigious Oscar Moore prize.
Pennington's taut thriller sees a young woman unexpectedly mixed up in a crime. The screenplay was one of five short-listed from more than 200 submissions."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-64434914716166734872015-06-21T12:47:00.000+01:002015-07-17T15:55:44.106+01:00Dystopian...
SciFi-dystopian horror novel/screenplay on the go: The Other Place...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-63116722530092718622015-06-17T13:45:00.000+01:002015-07-17T15:46:49.169+01:00Short film, OCD, has interest...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-71139925623867645972014-11-17T13:40:00.000+00:002014-11-18T16:29:15.335+00:00Brighton screening...The Left-Hand Path was screened at the Komedia in Brighton at the weekend. Free drinks and popcorn helped give the evening a real buzz. Great feedback too...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-84909576390716747772014-06-25T13:46:00.000+01:002014-08-13T14:17:33.376+01:00The Bones of Love...You might call it a 'dark romance' - with the emphasis on dark...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-48213292198059156632014-03-23T23:00:00.000+00:002014-07-24T15:17:46.228+01:00The Left-Hand Path premier!So pleased with the short! Stand outs were the performances from Costa Chard (lead) and Brian Capron... Screening in Brighton coming up...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-52683030620346020652014-02-03T10:46:00.000+00:002014-02-04T10:49:09.840+00:00The Rocliffe Forum...
Rocliffe is a BAFTA-supported initiative that has connected scores of aspiring British writers and filmmakers with agents, development executives and established industry members such as Greg Daniels, Andy Harries, Sue Perkins, Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Mike Newell, Julian Fellowes, Phil Rosenthal, Elizabeth Karlsen, John Madden, Richard Eyre, David Morrissey and David Parfitt.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-64425096989306697972013-11-30T16:24:00.000+00:002013-12-04T14:04:41.567+00:00Supernatural horror...
... screenplay in process. Not a gore fest exactly, more a ghost fest - The Conjuring for instance points towards a growing trend when it comes to the supernatural horror genre: a return to old-school, 'relatively' non-violent horror. So real creepiness is back on the agenda - and I mean real...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-20272161990702871742013-09-27T12:54:00.002+01:002013-10-03T13:16:05.965+01:00It's a wrap!Shooting of THE LEFT-HAND PATH now knocked on the head. A lot of hard work with great cast and crew has hopefully given us something special to push in upcoming film festivals. Three atmospheric locations really helped things along in more ways than one - except for a morning of torrential rain that threw things a bit but, at the end of the day, everyone got paid - and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-7443206817007043242013-08-25T10:32:00.000+01:002013-09-09T13:13:17.863+01:00Dream casting update...Casting at Rain Dance for THE LEFT-HAND PATH (see blurb below) proved to be more fruitful than we ever could have hoped. We now have on board the charismatic Costa Chard who is down to play ZAK and the lovely Brian Capron (New Tricks, Educating Rita, Coronation Street...) for TOM. The roles, of FAY and JESSICA, went to Therese Robinson and Terri Dwyer (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-73040635508423300662013-08-15T10:23:00.000+01:002014-02-04T10:48:41.085+00:00SHORT FILM...... retitled as THE LEFT-HAND PATH
It's actually a term for black magic practitioners. Belief systems that describe themselves as “Left-Hand Path” often invert much of the symbolism of more 'traditional' Right-Hand Path belief systems, utilizing upside-down crosses, or inverted pentagrams, or pentacles. Such belief systems will also cite sources such as the following Biblical passageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-29003078775638987792013-06-18T12:17:00.002+01:002013-11-01T16:20:27.289+00:00Developing the short...Visited Park Crescent gardens in Brighton that will provide some cool shots for THE LEFT-HAND PATH (adapted from Jessica's Lover, pictured) - and what a beautiful, almost wilderness, this green space is. Now there's a neglected basement to be found and an upmarket sitting room with marble fireplace to 'borrow'... Crowdfunding arrangements are up to speed and shooting Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-76992205905451108662013-05-17T12:13:00.003+01:002013-08-15T15:19:58.258+01:00eBooks ...With eBook sales taking off there is a feeling that publishers are still unsure which way to jump, but traditional publishing isn't going anywhere fast and is definitely holding its own... In the meantime two novels of mine have been republished in eBook format by Hodder & Stoughton : JESSICA'S LOVER (my short film, THE LEFT-HAND PATH, is based upon this - see blurbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-54714093335078181482013-03-08T14:26:00.000+00:002013-08-16T11:46:54.544+01:00JESSICA'S LOVER republished in...... eBook format! Things happen when Zak is around and not always nice things...
.It's an Indian summer - hot and sultry, brittle and oppressive, and in a Brighton crescent the heat is affecting everyone. Jessica's marriage is on the rocks; her husband is seeking solace in the bed of her sister, Fay. Beautiful Fay, who destroys everything she touches. Into this doomed triangle comes aUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-56006663644296665702013-03-08T11:07:00.000+00:002013-05-17T12:23:01.532+01:00Higher Education?Follow this link and see something new for performance: Higher Education with a laugh...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-35309734952590773062013-03-08T08:00:00.000+00:002013-06-20T10:58:51.536+01:00THE STALKING OF EVE...
"Gifted, charismatic and amoral, James Sanqui was thirty-one when he seduced his sister, Eve. She was sixteen. Ten years on, Eve is married and has made a new life for herself. In the process she has become adept at suppressing her dark and haunting past. Then her husband throws a party for Eve at the family's lake house. It is the beginning of a series of events that threaten toUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-62837780306855683882013-02-28T15:59:00.000+00:002013-03-11T16:15:55.265+00:00Fractured...
Fractured is now getting a reading at the Royal Exchange, Manchester...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-85778566387520087592013-01-17T16:05:00.000+00:002013-02-20T12:53:57.220+00:00Bricks and Bones...
Completed - edgy, erotic thriller with a few bells added on for good measure...
"... the remains that Phil had been unfortunate enough to discover as
he brought his demolition hammer smashing through the basement wall of 6 Clarion
Row had not only been bricked up and partially mummified, but had also been
bricked up alive. As he later told Beatty and anyone else who cared to listen:
“Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-73512961397442765492012-12-10T14:00:00.001+00:002012-12-10T14:00:55.100+00:00Launching titles in eBook format...'Jessica's Lover' and 'The Stalking of Eve' to be published in eBook format in the New Year...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-88020606881151843502012-08-29T14:58:00.001+01:002012-08-29T14:58:45.777+01:00The Thick of It again...The Thick Of It Again - otherwise known as the 21st century's answer to Yes Minister is up for a new series based on the Coalition. Thank God for creator Armando Iannucci... Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-24303470887642375962012-08-20T12:01:00.000+01:002012-08-21T13:59:38.716+01:00Tony Scott...Hard to take in about Tony Scott's suicide - loved 'Man on Fire'. He made the action movie an art form...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192891482121928872.post-86022984027949540512012-08-03T13:00:00.001+01:002012-08-03T13:07:48.504+01:00Just the clink of cut glass and talk of rich men’s pleasures...Reminds me of an ex who had a plane. "You should never feel sorry for a man who owns a plane... " Love that line from 'The Edge'... Anyway, re-reading ending of Bricks and Bones. I know I shouldn't, but can't help myself... (Yes, I know, Adrian!).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0