1st Prizewinner: £500, plus the Screenwriter's Handbook 2010 and a ticket to the next Prequel or Sequel to Cannes Film Networking Party in Poole in Dorset

A D Cooper of London, for her script 'The view from the window'. 

Born in Scotland, A D Cooper spent her early years in Surrey before moving to Poole to live on Brownsea Island at the age of eleven.

For many years, she's worked as a writer in advertising, creating all kinds of communications including corporate films, radio and TV commercials.

She started scriptwriting in the late 1990's and won the Women in Film and TV writers' initiative in 2000 with her feature script The Angel Mons. Since graduating from the MA in Screenwriting at the London College of Communications in 2003, she has had three features optioned and re-optioned.  She has also returned to the MA course to run workshops as an associate lecturer. 

Her experience as a rugby journalist included her own column in Rugby World. This helped secure the commission to script over 80 episodes of the sports entertainment show Ninja Warrior for Virgin TV/Pintsize Pictures, currently on air.  She has also published two joke books.

Away from writing, she played women's rugby to England and Scotland trial level and helped to run the inaugural women's World Cup in 1991. She now lives in West London and keeps bees in her back garden.

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2nd Prizewinner: £75 plus the Screenwriter's Handbook 2010 and a ticket to the next Prequel or Sequel to Cannes Film Networking Party

Martin Adams from Dorset, with his script 'Do you remember the first time?' states:

I always vaguely wanted to be a writer.  After being made redundant in 2005, I decided it was now or never and wrote full time for two years.  I wrote for 45-50 hours a week, until the money ran out and I had to get a real job.  I try to write twenty hours a week now, with varying degrees of success!

I have reached the semi finals of the British Short Screenplay Competition three times and won third prize in the Script_1 Competition.  In 2007 I won a place of the metlab scheme ran by the London Metropolitan University and the script I developed with them subsequently reached the semi finals of the Bluecat Screenplay Competition.  I have also reached the Quarter Finals of the Page International Screenwriting Competition, twice.

I have worked at the last three international Screenwriter's Festivals, as a driver and transport co-ordinator. 

3rd Prizewinner: £25 plus the Screenwriter's Handbook 2010 and a ticket to the next Prequel or Sequel to Cannes Film Networking Party 

Barry Staff from Surrey, with his screenplay 'The Third Degree' says:

After taking a postgraduate Diploma in Film Studies, Barry proceeded to write a portfolio of spec theatrical feature film scripts, currently nine in number, all now beyond first drafts.  'Eco-comedy' AGAINST NATURE was quarterfinalist in Hollywood's Page competition.  Neo-comedy ONE-LINER garnered an invite from the BBC to submit a next project to them.

Horror melodrama TRAILER was selected for the Screenwriters' Festival Scriptmart and, now with the director on board, it is to be discussed at a meeting with an established producer.  English western 'dramedy' THE WESTS was shortlisted as a six-part TV drama for C4's Pilot scheme and is in the process of being optioned as a feature film by another producer.  

The Sequel to Cannes Prize represents the first cash Barry has made out of 20 years of writing.  Aprart from tickling the keyboard, he likes to lie in a darkened room for a third of his life.