My Story and Career CV
‘A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song’
— Maya Angelou
It began creating characters with bears, rabbits and dolls, developing a vast world of nearly a hundred characters , acting out their many different stories with my sisters through seven years. We called it the ‘Animal Game’ and it took over our bedrooms, with cupboards for houses, and shops, schools, even a night club made from shoe boxes, a world populated by animal families, postmen, teachers, councillors, and the game eventually covered most of the top floor of the family house.
As you might guess, our parents were tolerant if concerned at times; then my mother was an avid reader, reading at least one novel a week. So I believe she understood. And I came to read some of her favourite writers, Iris Murdoch, Kurt Vonnegut, Somerset Maugham.
I read everything I could from everywhere .. Ferlinghetti, Calvino, Nolan, Beckett, Ionesco, Ginsberg, Montale, Robbe Grillet ….. My first published writing was at 17 in Lines Magazine, a poem, about a reader and his shifting emotion to the news of the Mai Lai massacre. I was thrilled to have more poems published alongside famous poets. I wrote every day, poetry, stories and articles, with further success. It all seemed clear, life was a nightmare, writing was a freedom.
Of course life was not a nightmare, things changed for the better. And thinking back, life is touched by chance, sometimes for the good, yet frequently and often unforeseen, it is suddenly shocking. What made sense before as a child playing out those characters was gone, there was an infinite number of new people and scenarios to attempt to survive, understand and write.
Paul is currently working on a number of feature film scripts and an Anglo-French documentary.
‘Nonsense and beauty have close connections’ – E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey
DANCING IN THE WAVES
Paul Gallagher
Mer Publishing Ltd
[ISBN 978-0-9555849-5-4]
Poems, plays and script.
A powerful reading of lives, relationships and emotions
– Gabriella Apicella, screenwriter
£6.99 available to order from contact page
Paul Gallagher / Curriculum Vitae
Academic Advisor & Lecturer Screenwriting
Board Director
Director
Associate Editor
Director
Script Consultant
Co-writer with Jaehee Choi
Writer – Short Stories
Writer – Articles & Poetry
Script Workshops
Seminar Lecturer
Writer/Reader
Co-writer – Play
Co-writer – Short film in pre-production
Co-writer – in pre-production
Script Workshops
Writer/Reader – Short Stories published by Storytails
Script Consultant feature film
Course Designer
Lecturer
Script Consultant feature film
Course & Workshop Tutor
Author
Script Consultant – Web Series
Script Consultant – Feature Film
Script Consultant – Feature Film
Tutor
Course Director
Executive Board Member
Tutor
Panel Speaker
As Euroscript MEDIA Programme Director
Feature Films produced:
As Euroscript MEDIA Programme Director
Feature Screenplays optioned:
Columnist
Writer and Editor
Chair
Panel Speaker
Course Director
Panel Speaker
Panel Speaker
International Film Jury
Funding Jury
Chair of LSW presenting org
Script Editor
Script Editor – Clocktower produced films
Speaker for Media N.Ireland
Course Director
Panel Speaker, Writing for film & TV
Speaker Disability Film Workshop
Conference Speaker & workshop
Speaker
Course Director
Lecturer Screenwriting on BA Humanities
Conference Speaker – MEDIA, Aberystwyth
Conference Speaker
Script in Performance – Tutor
Script Consultant
Seminar speaker
Conference Organiser and Panel Chair
Panellist
Workshop Writing Tutor
Theatre Workshop – Tutor
Mark Ezra talks to Paul Gallagher
Founder of Euroscript Ltd
Writer
Writer – Articles, poetry & stories
Co-writer – Articles
Magazine Editor
Script Consultant
‘So you want to be a screenwriter?’ – Lecture
‘Documentary Film’ – Seminar Chair
‘Writing for Film and TV’ – Seminar Panellist
‘Industry and the Script’ – chair
A view on serial killers’ – Lecture
‘Writing for the Screen’ – Panellist
Writer
Script Workshop – Tutor
Course Director ‘Writers, Directors, Producers’
‘The Films and Work of Philip K.Dick’ – Chair
Magic Box / Studio Drama Workshop – Tutor
MA. London Institute
Writer – Competition Winner
‘Writers meet Producers’ – Chair
‘Writing for Film’ – Lecture
Head of Education
Tutor
‘Dangerous Liaisons’ – Film Analysis
‘Theory made Reality’ – Seminar Panellist
Founder
‘Writing Popular Drama’- Seminar Chair
Elected executive board Member
Script Workshop Tutor
Writer
Workshop Tutor
Presenter
Articles
Poetry
MA Screenwriting , Birkbeck College, London University
Twelve Chairs Films Ltd – Film projects in development
Euroscript Ltd
New London Writers
Storytails founded by Gabriella Apicella
Feature film – ‘The Bird Catcher’
Feature film – ‘Star Girl’ produced by Twelve Chairs Films
Including English Country Garden, The Train Departing From Platform 16,
Driving Away From Home published by New London Writers
Including Jump Baby Jump, A History of Last Love Letters, Hillsborough
Future Film Festival & Raw Shorts
Writing Project Proposals, Nottingham University
Poetry at Tea Box @ Richmond
One’s for Nothing with Elena Timplalexi
with Director Enrique Rovira
Anglo-French documentary with Director Christophe Rey
London Screenwriters Festival, Underwire Festival, Big Comedy Festival
Getting Into Heaven, The Arcade of Dr Morbius, Pictures of The Lost
‘Desiree’ dir. Ross Clarke, released 2016
Birkbeck, MA Screenwriting with Emma Sandon
Screenwriting, St Mary’s University, Twickenham
‘Starred Up’ wr. Jonathan Asser, released 2014
BA Screenwriting and Certificate
Script Development, Documentary, Comedy, Sitcom, Genres
Dancing on the Waves published
Bradfield Project – an online animation
Death of Dreamtime
Tarzan of NY with documentary maker Andrew Stevenson
London [International] Film School
Euroscript Residential Workshop, Roujan, France
New Producers Alliance
Screenlab NPA/SW Film Council Course
ICA
‘Little Ashes‘ [UK] – wr. Philippa Goslett. Release date –
‘French Fries’ [Gr]
‘Metro’ [Port]
‘Mermaids and Money Troubles’,
‘Small Time’, ‘Em’
Filmwaves
Screenwriter Magazine
Discussion UK Film Industry + Film Council
Edinburgh Festival – ‘Screenwriting & the film industry’
Residential Workshop, Convento da Arrabida, Portugal
N.Ireland Film Festival
Birmingham International Film Festival
Film & Documentary Festival, Familiciao, Portugal
First Take/Anglia TV Film Funding
‘Screenwriting 2000 Conference’ – N. F. T.
Optioned screenplays
‘Heart &Soul’ wr Lucy Floyd
‘Louisa’s Grandmother’
wr-prod Kita Casal-Ribero
‘Earth’
‘Hurt’
‘Being Frank’
‘Bob’
‘Rock and Roll’
‘Dove’
‘Perfect’
‘Be Alert’
‘Limitless Possibilities of Endless Repetition’
‘Something Fishy’
‘Bewitched’
‘Suitcase’
Belfast International Film Festival
Residential Workshop, Convento da Arrabida, Portugal
First Take, Cambridge
Connections
NBX Edinburgh Festival, UK
Avianna Film Festival, Portugal
Residential Workshop, Neapolis, Greece
University of London
MEDIA Wales
‘Training for a cultural Industry’ – Light House Media Wolverhampton
Link Theatre
‘ The Indus Civilization’ Documentary by Ilona Aranowsky
‘Training for a Cultural Industry’ – BFI Conference
‘The Writer – Producer Relationship’ L.S.W. & N.P.A.
‘Less is More’ Short Film Festival
Intermedia Festival, Nottingham
Tricycle Theatre
The Green Room Club
CEO, Euroscript, EU MEDIA programme
‘Maria’s Chrysanthemums’ feature adaptation commissioned by novelist
Published by Savvy, Horizon, Screenwriter and other magazines
For foreign newspapers and feminist magazines, with Ladan Lajevardi
Screenwriter Magazine
‘Home Run’- by Michael Dixon. For POW Productions.
Hertfordshire Literary Festival
The Green Room Club
Peeping Toms Club
The Green Room Club
London Psychology Society
Peeping Toms Club
‘Meeting Point’ poem published by Blackmore
London Institute MA course
Royal College of Art
L. S. W.
B.B.C.
Screenwriting and Documentary Research
2 x TV outlines BBC/LSW
P. A. C. T.
Kingston Moviemakers
London Screenwriters Workshop
Birkbeck College, London University
L. S. W.
L. S. W.
Script Reading Agency [later Feedback]
C 4 talk
London Screenwriters Workshop [LSW]
Ealing Literary Festival
‘Blue Dolphin’ screenplay optioned
L.S.W.
College Radio Station
published by Underground Press
published by Lines magazine and others
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