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”.