 | Julian Friedmann is Joint Managing Director of Blake Friedmann Literary Agency in London which represents 200 book and script writersworldwide. For a number of years before that he ran a small publishing company specialising in academic books, and before that he was Educational Editor at two companies in London in the 1970s, Angus & Robertson and Irish University Press. Friedmann was the first UK Coordinator of the European Union’s MEDIA Programme, EAVE, a producer-training programme (1990). He designed and set up the world’s first MA in Television Scriptwriting at De Montfort University in Leicester. In November 2001 he launched Britain’s only scriptwriting magazine, ScriptWriter. It is now online in its eighth year and has become Europe’s most influential scriptwriting website (www.TwelvePoint.com, a web-based resource for writers and those who work with them). The website covers all aspects of knowledge for professional scriptwriters, from law and business to script development, genre, audiences and markets. There are now more than 800 articles about writing on the website. The magazine and the website have received support from the UK Film Council. |
