News
PAL’s Annual Report 2008-09
We have decided to stop hiding our light under a bushel and publish our Annual Report.
PAL goes to India for the first Children’s Film Lab
Our brand new Screenwriters Lab for the development of Indian feature films for children and family audiences took place in December 2009. The 10-day residential was held in the beautiful hill station of Metheran, outside Mumbai.
Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning screenwriter for Slumdog Millionaire writes,
“I have always been a huge supporter of the PAL Screen Labs. I have taken part in them as writer, tutor, and visiting speaker and cannot speak highly enough of a process that both refines the script and the screenwriter in equal measure. The guiding principles of PAL Screen Labs mean that the writer not only walks away with a much clearer vision of their project, but most importantly, also with a vision of how they can pursue their life and their writing career. PAL doesn’t just improve a single script, it nurtures the writer for the next script and the one after that. I was so excited when I heard that PAL were setting up a new Lab programme in India. There are a million new Indian stories to tell and just as many ways to tell them. This is an incredible opportunity to make films that reach beyond the ambitions of Bollywood, to tell real stories about real people that can still move, provoke debate- and make money at the box office! I can think of nobody better to nurture this amazing potential than PAL Screen Labs”.
Writers for Indian Children’s Film Lab announced
The Indian Children’s Film Lab will focus on the writing, development and production of high quality children’s films. For the first time in India this programme will offer a unique opportunity for developing talent specialised in writing and film production for a young people’s audience.
The Lab will take place in Matheran, near Bombay, from December 4-14 December 2009.
Training Observatory website launched
We are delighted to report that the Training Observatory website has now gone live. The Training Observatory is an information network for professionals working with the arts with children and young people in volatile and challenging contexts. It grew out of PAL’s Volatile and Challenging Lab programme which began in 2005.
Creative Scotland - have your say
Perspectives, a new on-line discussion forum, has just been launched. It describes itself as an evolving dialogue with Scotland’s creative communities to strengthen the purpose of and ambition for Creative Scotland, the new national development body for the arts, culture and creative industries.
Creativity: Luxury or Lifeline?
PAL delivered a workshop at CapeUK’s conference, Creativity: Luxury or Lifeline? Survive and Thrive in a Changing Educational Landscape, held at the National Media Museum in Bradford on 30th September 2009.
PAL’s New Website
Welcome to our website. It is a work in progress and there is bound to be the odd glitch, but we hope that we have achieved our principle aim: to be clear and accessible.
The Art of Enquiry
To mark our 20th year, PAL held the first in a series of one-day Labs, called The Art of Enquiry on 29th June 2009 at our home in the Siobhan Davies Studios.