Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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James McCarthy is an experienced screenwriter who has worked with Working Title, Element Pictures, Cloud Eight Films and BAFTA-winning producer James Gay-Rees. He currently works solo but has been part of a writing partnership with J Blakeson and in various writing rooms for TV drama series. At the start of his career he won the Carl Foreman Scholarship and is a member of the Writers Guild of America West and BAFTA. In 2020 he co-founded a production company called They’re Watching Us that has made a number of short films and is looking to shoot its first drama feature film in 2022. James describes his teaching style as “constructively encouraging”, looking to harness other writers’ unique inner visions with the hard craft needed to get their work noticed, sold and produced in the film and TV industries.