Oscar Moore prize winnerLindsay Shapero is adapting Tibor Fischer's award-winning novel Under TheFrog for American director/producer Steve Shainberg (Secretary).
The film, which is currentlyin development, will be produced by Shainberg and directed by US-basedHungarian director Dezso Magyar.
Under the Frog is a black comedy set against the backdrop of theHungarian uprising of 1956.
Shapero won the inauguralOscar Moore script writing competition in 1998 for her script Bitten By AZebra, a story about Yugoslav immigrants who had fled to London from thecountry's civil war.
The Oscar Moore Foundationwas established in 1997 as a charitable foundation administered by ScreenInternational, in memory of its former editor-in-chief Oscar Moore who diedof an AIDS-related illness in 1996.
The deadline for submissionsto the The Oscar Moore Screen-Writing Prize 2004 is 5pm, 6th December 2004. The genre for 2004 is thriller.
In addition to £10,000development funding (co-funded by The Film Council), the winner also receives aplace on a residential writers workshop run by Arista and a professionalreading of their script by The Script Factory.
The prize will be awarded at the annual Oscar Moore Film Quiz Evening to beheld early in 2005.
To obtain an application formplease click here.
For other enquiries pleasecall Sade Sharp at Screen International on +44 (0)207 505 8080 or
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