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Hot news from The Scotsman today, March 25th 2010!
Rosy Barnes has been selected for a film development programme aimed at redressing the gender balance in British film making - see below the extract from the paper:
'KATHRYN Bigelow's Oscar victory was a historic first for a woman director but across the film industry only 7 per cent of directors and 12 per cent of screenwriters are women, it is claimed. Now Edinburgh is being touted as ‘a hotbed of new female screenwriting talent’. Film writer Laura Anne Anderson and comic novelist Rosy Barnes are two of ten women chosen for the UK-wide film writing programme "She Writes".
The scheme is backed by The Script Factory training centre and Birds Eye View, a festival for women film-makers. Barnes is to pen a screen adaptation of her own comic novel Sadomasochism for Accountants, which our review placed in the mould of PG Wodehouse or Tom Sharpe. In it a character named Paula recruits the exotic clientele of a South London fetish club to claw back her accountant ex.' The Scotsman Thursday 25th March 2010
Photographs from the launch of Sadomasochism for Accountants held at the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden in February 2009
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