British Council Launches Radio Playwriting Competition

The British Council together with BBC world has recently launched an International Radio Playwriting Competition 2011. To join, you must create an original 60 minute radio play with up to 6 central characters. Two winners will each receive £2500 sterling and a trip to London to see the play being recorded and to attend a prize-giving evening. Contest is open worldwide so you better make that play stand out.

Contest Requirements:

• Open to anyone who is over the age of 16 as of March 31, 2011 who is not normally a resident of the UK. This may include anyone living/working in the UK on a temporary basis (up to 12 months) at the time of entering the competition. Professional and previously published writers are eligible to enter, but this is not a requirement of entry.
• Enter individually or as part of a group

Contest Mechanics:

1. Write a radio play of approximately 60 minutes’ length on any subject of your choice
2. Categories
• English as a first language
• English as a second language
3. Entry Guidelines
• Adaptations of novels are not eligible
• Must not have been professionally produced in any medium
• Must not be entered in any competition during the course of this contest
• Minimum of 50 pages of A4 paper
• Maximum of 75 pages NOTE: A rough guide is a minute per page; read and time your play before you send it
• Maximum of six central characters (up to 3 small “doubling” characters who don’t have more than a few lines each)
• Must be accompanied by a short synopsis which outlines the complete story of the play (no more than 400 words)
• Must be written substantially or entirely in English
4. One entry per person
5.  Download application form
6. Submit application forms together with your entry via email to radioplay@bbc.co.uk or mail to
• British Council
  10th Floor Taipan Place
  F. Ortigas Jr. Road
  Ortigas Center, Pasig City
7. View complete contest mechanics

Contest Period: October 16 - March 25, 2011

Contest Prize:

• Best play written with English as a first language - £2500 sterling and a trip to London to see the play being recorded and to attend a prize-giving evening
• Best play written with English as a second language - £2500 sterling and a trip to London to see the play being recorded and to attend a prize-giving evening
• Best radio play to be written from the following geographical areas: The Americas; Europe; Africa and the Middle East; South Asia; Russia and the Caucasus; Asia and Pacific - digital or short wave radio EACH
• All writers whose plays reach the judges' final shortlist - BBC goodie bags EACH

For more information, log on to britishcouncil.org

Be Part Of A Group Of Writers For Children

Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting (KUTING), a private, non-stock, non-profit organization of Filipino writers for children, is inviting all writers who are at least 18 years old and interested in writing for children to apply for membership. The KUTING orientation seminar will be held on September 18, 2010 (Saturday) from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at Room 309, CAL Building, UP Diliman, QC.

Application Requirements:

• Four (4) copies of a sample work (published or unpublished) intended for children (18 years old and below) in Filipino or English; the written work can be any of the following:
  - one fiction or non-fiction manuscript (not more than 12 pages or one chapter of a novel)
  - five poems
  - one TV/film script
  - one 1-act play
  - one comic script/book
• The sample work should be set in Times New Roman, 12 points, double-spaced on a letter-sized bond paper with one-inch margin on each side.
• 2x2 recent photo (two copies)
• CV/Resume
• All requirements should be submitted in a legal-sized brown envelope during the KUTING orientation seminar on September 18, 12:00 noon. The applicant’s full name must be boldly printed on the upper right-hand corner of the envelope.
• For inquiries send an e-mail to membership@kuting.org.

Screening:

• Applicants must attend the KUTING Orientation Seminar. During the seminar, an applicant must:
  1. Fill-up an application form.
  2. Go through a writing skills assessment exercise
  3. Pay a non-refundable Processing Fee: P150(for orientation kit, snacks, etc.)
• A maximum of twenty (20) probees will be chosen from the applicants.

Japan Film Festival at UP Diliman

The Japan Foundation, Manila, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, the Shangri-La Plaza Mall (EDSA), and the UP Film Institute (Diliman), proudly presents Eiga Sai 2010 featuring contemporary films. 


After the successful screenings at the Shang Cineplex Cinema 4, Shangri-La Plaza, the film festival now moves to Gaisano South City Mall, Davao (July 23-25), Ayala Center, Cebu (Aug 3-8), and UP Film Institute for its final series of screenings, which will run from August 18-21.
The films include Takita Yojiro’s "The Battery - Future in Our Hands” (Batterii, 2007 Suo Masayuki’s “I Just Didn’t Do It” (Soredemo boku wa yatte nai, 2007), Ichikawa Jun’s “How to Become Myself” (Ashita no watashi no tsukurikata, 2007),  Tsutsumi Yukihiko’s ”The Bandage Club” (Houtai kurabu, 2007), Ogigami Naoko’s “Glasses (Megane, 2007), Hirosue Hiromasa’s “Fourteen” (Juyon-sai, 2007), Matsuoka Joji’s “TOKYO TOWER Mom & Me, and Sometimes Dad” (Tokyo tawaa Okan to boku to tokidoki oton, 2007), Yamamoto Nizo’s anime film “Miyori in the Sacred Forest” (Miyori no mori, 2007) and Yamamura Koji’s “Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor” (Kafka Inaka isha, 2007, nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award 2002).


ADMISSION IS FREE. Click here for detailed screening schedules.

Schedule of Dulaang UP's 35th Season

Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (Dulaang UP), the University of the Philippines' official performing theatre arts group launches its 35th season with the theme "Return Engagement: Plays Deserving a Second Look" on July 22, 3:30 pm at its improved home, the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theatre, 2nd Floor, Palma Hall, Diliman, Quezon City.

The season will restage various DUP productions, among which are:

Orosman at Zafira on August 11-29

A musical hailed as 2008's first great production with Dexter Santos as director and original music by Carol Bello;

Shock Value..Take 2 on September 14 –October 3

A new chapter is added in this exciting comedy that mirrors the wacky and controversial truth about showbiz life with Floy Quintos as playwright and Alexander Cortez as director

Isang Panaginip na Fili on November 24-December 12

Another powerful and compelling post-modern musicale of Rizal's El Filibustersimo and nominated as 22nd Aliw Awards Best Musical production under the direction of Floy Quintos with Cj Javier providing the music

Amphitryon on February 16 to March 6

Filipino translation by Jerry Respeto based on Heinrich Von Kleist's play with Josefina Estrella as the director.

For further details, please contact telephone numbers (632) 9261349 and 9818500 local 249 and Telefax (632) 4337840.