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Writers go on a crime spree as the Story Engine and Tyneside Cinema
celebrate 40 years of Get Carter
Newcastle’s historic Tyneside Cinema will be taken over by crime writers of all
genres for two days, as the annual screenwriting conference The Story Engine
returns to Tyneside.
The Story Engine takes place on Friday 11th March (evening) and Saturday 12th
March 2011 for what promises to be the crime spree of the year. Taking the
fortieth anniversary of the UK release of Get Carter as a starting point, the Story
Engine brings together the people behind that classic film in a special event with
Mike Hodges, its writer and director.
The Story Engine will also look at other major crime-based films and TV series:
Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy; C4's landmark Red Riding films, and ITV's
upcoming North East-based crime series Vera, to examine how the crime genre
continues to enthral filmmakers and audiences alike.
Writers can expect industry insights into the character, setting, structure and tone
of major crime series. Adaptation for screens large and small will be a major
theme, and the conference will ask what filmmakers can learn from the work and
working methods of crime novelists.
The event is aimed at all those engaged in creating fiction for the screen, be they
screenwriters, producers, or directors. Novelists, and fans of crime fiction in
general, will also find the programme of relevance to their interests.
Featuring case studies, panel discussions, screenings, and networking with
leading industry insiders, the aim throughout is simple: to help emerging and
established talent gain a better understanding of the art, craft, and business of
creating engaging stories for the screen.
The Programme:
Get Carter at 40: Writer and director Mike Hodges joins us for a unique insight
into the creation of this seminal British gangster film. Followed by screening of
Get Carter.
A Perfect Crime: Novelists Val McDermid and Denise Mina discuss how they
approach creating their unique brands of crime fiction.
The Bloody North: Mike Hodges and David Peace explore the importance of
place within the genre and discuss the problems of mixing fact and fiction.
Setting The Tone: Screenwriter Tony Grisoni outlines his approach to adapting
the Red Riding quartet into three films for Channel Four, and examines the
importance of tone within the world of crime fiction.
Commissioning Criminals: The BBC’s John Yorke looks at crime on television
and offers his own take on the genre.
Scandinavia Rising: Script editor Eva Ward and writer Antonia Pyk discuss their
work for Swedish production company YellowBird (makers of Wallander and the
Millennium films) and give us a unique insight into the company’s next large
scale venture: the production of six feature films based on the Annika Bengtzon
series of books by Liza Markalund.
Hidden Depths Ahead of the network premiere of Vera, ITV’s new North Eastbased
crime drama, we’re joined by creator and novelist Ann Cleeves and
screenwriter Paul Rutman to find out how they brought the books to the screen.
The Larsson Legacy: Eva Ward from YellowBird explains the complex process
of bringing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy to the screen. Followed by
screening of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Venue and Times
The event will take place at the Tyneside Cinema in central Newcastle on Friday
11 March (evening) and all day Saturday 12 March.
Please check Story Engine website (
and exact timings, and to book your place.
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About
DfC
The Inkerman Writers are members of Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up in 2010 to help save Darlington Arts Centre from closure.
Its members include representatives of arts and community groups.
DfC was established after the centre’s owner, Darlington Borough Council, announced that budget cuts meant that it would have to withdraw its subsidy from the Arts Centre.
Although the centre closed, the organisation remains active - more at www.darlingtonforculture.org
Publications
Welcome to the site created by the Inkerman Writers to showcase our work.
Based in Darlington, North East England, and having celebrated their tenth anniversary in 2013, members have enjoyed success in a variety of arenas, including winning, and being shortlisted and highly commended, in short story competitions, having novels published and publishing the short story anthology A Strawberry in Winter, which can be obtained by visiting the website www.blurb.com
The group's second anthology of short stories, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, can be obtained, cost £4.95 plus postage and packing, from
The Inkerman Writers’ latest book, Out of the Shadows, which was launched as part of the 2013 Darlington Arts Festival, is on sale. The book can be ordered direct from
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4204019-out-of-the-shadows
The group also produced The Last Waltz, a double CD of short stories, available by contacting deangriss@btinternet.com, cost £5 plus p and p.
Several of our writers wrote original one-act plays in a collaboration with the Green Theatre company, which were performed at Darlington Arts Centre early in February, 2012.
Darlington-based Inkerman Writers have produced their latest anthology of short stories, Inkerman Street, based on the demolition of a fictional northern street and the stories of the people who lived in it.
The book, which features a variety of stories ranging from horror to comedy, was launched to a large audience at the Darlington Arts Festival Literary Day on Saturday May 26 and begins like this:
“Inkerman Street is still and graveyard-hushed tonight, the terraced houses cold behind boarded-up windows, silent sentinels among a sea of wasteland. No one lives here now and tomorrow the bulldozers will move in to flatten the houses to make way for the Council’s Grand Plan.
“Although the people are long gone, the houses still have life. Peek into one of the bedrooms and see on the wall a painting of a seaside scene, brightly-coloured boats bobbing in the harbour, fishermen pipe-smoking in the noonday sun and seagulls wheeling high above the choppy waters. In the roaring silence of the night, you can hear the screeching of the birds and taste the salt air, acrid and herring-sharp at the back of your throat. It is an illusion; the bedroom is empty and the blooms on the faded wallpaper have long since wilted.
“The air in the houses is musty with neglect yet but a few months before, these were bustling homes filled with frying bacon and steaming irons, whistling kettles and playing children. The houses witnessed all these scenes for more than 150 years. Behind their curtains were enacted a thousand stories but tomorrow they will be destroyed because Inkerman Street is the last of its ilk.
“Now, on the eve of the street’s death, the people who once lived here have returned, gathering solemn and silent in the mist, the ghosts of the past come to pay final tribute….”
The anthology can be purchased at http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/7524452/bae89c993c98ec8c8b37b12d6b9b37ecced5dec3
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