13th Parish Archive 2019

Jenny Lecoat Screenwriting Award

Jenny Lecoat Screenwriting Award – Winner ‘Kid’ by Claire Mockett (aka Moxie) This screenplay catapults you into an environmental dystopia of frightening conviction and imaginative detail, and manages to convey an epic yet character-led story within a very short time. In the year that Greta Thunberg has shown us the power and potential of female

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Winners of Script Competition 2020

The Parish is pleased to announce the winners this year’s Jenny Lecoat Scriptwriting Award 2020. The competition, which is established to encourage female screenwriting, is supported by Soroptimists International, Jersey and adjudicated by established local author Jenny Lecoat. First prize of £300 has been awarded to Germanophobia by Fran Greenwood. Jenny says of the work:

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Our Awards 2019

The first 13th Parish Festival Award winners 2019 The ‘Pomme D’Or’ Award for Best International Short Film’ Jury members: Martin Greene, Martha MacDonald and Ros Byrne-Shore Winner: Anthony, The Invisible One (Maya Kosa) Maya Kosa’s multi-dimensional short film inverts, transforms and challenges ways of seeing. With a patience which gradually allowed us in to an

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Film festival award welcomes ‘fem-powering’ screenplays

Disappointed by stories of female “victimisation”, a Jersey-born screenwriter has teamed up with an independent film festival to launch a new award celebrating scripts telling “a different kind of female story”. The 13th Parish Festival of Independent Film and Music is working with Jenny Lecoat, who wrote acclaimed Occupation drama ‘Another Mother’s Son’, to launch

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