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How to Write a Screenplay Shane Connaughton
   
Shane Connaughton  
Shane Connaughton co-wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay for My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day Lewis. Shane's other screenwriting credits include The Playboys, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright and Milo O'Shea, and The Run of the Country, directed by Peter Yates, starring Albert Finney and Antony Brophy. His record of the filming of the latter production was published by Faber in 1995 under the title of A Border Diary.

Shane is the author of two novels - A Border Station and The Run of the Country (published by Penguin), and he won the Hennessy Award for Irish Fiction in 1985.

He has written for stage and television, and worked as an actor, having trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Work In Progress
Shane has just finished adapting Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace for the screen, and is working on Half A Hundred, a film set in Ireland and London for Roger Donaldson.

Writers Tip
He offers this advice for aspiring screenplay writers based on his current work:

"Use your eyes and ears everywhere you go. Look. Listen. Go to the theatre. Learn how actors work. Write about something that moves you. Then you might move the world. Remember the Trojan War was a parochial affair. A squabble over cattle and maybe a woman. In other words, everything you need for a good story is right there in your village or town. Right under your nose… which makes it hard to see sometimes."



 
 
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