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THE BRIT LIST 2016 – The Agency Nominations

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Congratulations to our following clients for making it on to this year’s Brit List.  A line-up of the best yet-to-shoot movie screenplays as voted on by the UK industry.

NINE VOTES
THE COMPETITORS by Ruth Greenburg
Producers: Escape Plan Productions
Genre:  Apocalypse Western
Summary:  A runaway prostitute falls in with a lone rider pursuing a stolen child through a brutal landscape.

SEVEN VOTES
BRIDE OR GROOM by Olivia Poulet & Lucy Brown
Producers: Stigma Films
Genre: Rom Com
Summary:  On the eve of their wedding weekend in Paris, newly engaged lovers Sophie and Philippe magically swap bodies and attend each other’s stag and hen dos, to eye opening results.

FIVE VOTES
BEATS by Kieran Hurley and Brian Welsh
Producers:  Sixteen Films
Genre: Coming of age
Summary:BEATS tells the story of Johnno and Spanner, teenagers living in a small, suburban Scottish town at the time of the 1994 Criminal Justice Act – a new piece of legislation which effectively outlawed raves, or “public gatherings around amplified music characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”.
BEATS explores adventure, imagination and the irresistible power of gathered youth.
Adapted from Kieran’s award-winning stage play of the same name.

FOUR VOTES
STOLEN TIME by Nick Whitfield 
Producers: Forward Films
Genre:  Time Travel Comedy Drama
Summary: Charlotte, a Victorian era petty thief, is catapulted to the 21st Century London.

THREE VOTES
EICHMANN by Matthew Orton
Producers: MGM
Genre: Historical Thriller
Summary:  Based on the true story about Mossad agents tracking down a Nazi war criminal in South America.

Full list can be seen here.

Published: 22nd November 2016