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15 Lessons Screenwriters and Filmmakers can take from ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’.
Addressing forgiveness, Martin McDonagh’s writing and execution goes beyond Seven Psychopaths and In Bruges to reach new heights in this blockbusting dark comedy.

After AFTRS
‘Think of a memory. Something important to you. Go on. The first thing that comes into your head. Allow the memory to come to you. Go deeper into it. In the next ten minutes, I want you to write about it. Consider the images, colours, textures, rhythms and sounds that you associate with that moment. Go.’
Jonathan Ogilvie, Film Director and Tropfest Winner
AFTRS Screenwriting Course, 2018
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Sunday League – A Feature Film Screenplay by Peter Boydell
When the manager of a rough Sunday League football team dies, a vicar steps into his boots and begins a journey to reclaim his joy.

Sunday League – A ‘Save The Cat’ Experiment
When the manager of a rough, local, Sunday League football team dies, a repressed vicar steps into his boots and begins a journey to reclaim his joy in life.

An Excerpt from ‘The Local’ – A Feature Film Screenplay By Peter Boydell
Four teenage boys skip school and play gangsters, but when a tetchy, Greek kebab shop owner flips, the boys get involved in something dark. Continue reading

It’s About A Guy Who…
Wandering the many markets of Chiang Mai, Pai and Luang Prabang with Hazel and Collette as they perused jewelry, purses, trinkets, bronze statues of Buddha, candles, harems, hand-made cosmetics and Eastern ornaments, I felt a little out of place. This was not my scene. Continue reading