Filmmaker Talks: The Writer/Director & Producer Relationship

Script Salon invites you to a candid conversation between filmmaker Flavia Casà and special guest, Creative Producer Thembisa Cochrane. Join us for a unique evening discovering how a Producer like Thembisa Cochrane chooses which projects to take forward, identifies a strong Writer/Director voice, balances artistic taste and market viability, and guides writers from script development through to delivery. We are priviledged to host Thembisa, a producer whose body of work has screened at Cannes, Sundance, the BFI, among others. You can catch The Colour Room on Now TV. Hear first-hand from her industry expertise in all things producing - and take away valuable insights on how to get your script production ready. • 50 minutes of honest creative exchange • 20 minutes protected for your questions • 20 minutes of drinks and discussion Get to know Thembisa ahead of the event: Thembisa is the co-founder of Caspian Films, producers of Us Among the Stones (63rd BFI London Film Festival) and the film The Colour Room directed by Claire McCarthy and starring Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game). She also works in association with Spier Films, for whom she produced the international co-production The Harvesters (2018) in selection Cannes 2018 and worked as an executive on films like An Act of Defiance (2017); Young Ones (2014) starring Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon and Elle Fanning; and The Salvation (2014) starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green. Thembisa is looking for entertaining stories with quality performance-driven drama at their heart and supported by genre elements strong enough to give them international commercial appeal. Thembisa also develops international theatrical productions and co-productions.