Other Stuff

BOOM TIME FOR BRITISH CINEMA boom and bust happens in all industries, here's how it plays out in the UK film industry...Huffington Post May 2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-heffernan-/boom-time-for-british-cin_b_7198438.html 

Tell the story, tell the story, tell the story; a piece BAFTA (the British Academy of Film & Television Arts) asked me to write for them.

http://guru.bafta.org/blog/tell-story-kate-leys-script-editor

Climbing inside the story: what is it that I do?  A report on a Q&A for Women in Film & Television at the London Film Festival, chaired by the lovely Briony Hanson, Director of Film at the British Council.  (Please note there is a very strange photo in this link - I was ill!) 

http://www.wftv.org.uk/resources/reports-and-statistics/climbing-inside-story-kate-leys

Links and References

These are good.

ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE
William Goldman

ON FILM-MAKING
Alexander Mackendrick

THE CONVERSATIONS: WALTER MURCH & THE ART OF EDITING FILM
Michael Ondaatje

THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT: THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF FAIRY TALES
Bruno Bettelheim

THE POETICS
Aristotle

THE DRAMA OF BEING A CHILD
Alice Miller

THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
John Heilpern

TRUFFAUT/HITCHCOCK
Francois Truffaut

MOCKINGBIRD
Walter Tevis