Clare Downs

Biography

EXECUTIVE Co-Director of the Association of Independent Producers (1978-1980). Director of International Creative Affairs for the Ladd Company/Warner Bros (1981-1983). Director of Council of Europe’s FIRST FILM EUROPE (1989 -1990) PRODUCING THE DRESS (1985) BAFTA, Gold Plaque, Chicago. HIGH SEASON (1987) Best screenplay - San Sebastian Film Festival. Co-producer BORDERLINE (1993) Locarno. Best Director, International Film Critics Prize, Thessaloniki Film Festival. DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING Founder member of the Script Analysis team of EAVE - since 1989. Joint Head of Studies of the Scottish/Irish EAVE Regional programme (1993), EAVE Greek Regional programme (1994). Script analyst of the EAVE International Programme - TIES THAT BIND – EAVE Asia, and B’EST – Baltic Bridge East and West. EAVE ON DEMAND - Tbilisi, Georgia; Durban, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, Palestine, Armenia, Cairo. Senior/Visiting Tutor in Script Development /Producing at the National Film and Television School, UK, (since 1996), the MA scriptwriting/producing courses at de Montfort University (since 1999), the University of the Arts, London. Joint Head of Studies of the Southern African Producer training programme, AVEA (2000- 2005). Script consultant to FOCAL funded IFA-SC, the Independent Filmmakers Association - South Caucasus Training programme (2006 – 2009). Evaluator - Malta Film Fund since 2011. Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Script analyst for Jerusalem International Film Lab - since its inception 2011. SCRIPT CONSULTING/WRITING/MASTERCLASSES Clare has delivered numerous script-writing workshops, and Master classes in Screenwriting and in Development Strategies, internationally. She works as a consultant, evaluator, writing reports and working on individual projects with both film funds and filmmakers throughout the world. She has rewritten several screenplays in the run up to production. RECENT SCRIPT CONSULTATIONS The Kindergarten Teacher (Cannes - Critics’ Week 2014), Why Me? (Berlin – Panorama 2015), United States of Love (Berlin - Best Screenplay 2016), Mellow Mud (Berlin - Crystal Bear 2016), The Apprentice (Cannes - Un Certain Regard 2016), The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (Cannes Winner - Un Certain Regard 2016), Interchange (Locarno 2016), Wajib (Locarno, Toronto 2017), Suleiman Mountain (Pingyao - Best Film & Audience Award 2017), The Accused (Venice, Toronto 2018).