The Consultants

2013
Novelist, essayist and screenwriter. Author of the novels "Una lección de anatomía", "El libro de la realidad" and "Muerte de nadie". He and Juan Carlos Tabío are the co-authors of the screenplays "La Lista de espera" (Coral Prize, Havana Film Festival, 2000), "Aunque estés lejos" (2003) and "Horn of Plenty" (Third Coral Prize and Best Screenplay, Havana Film Festival, 2008). Since 2006, Arango has been a tenured professor at the International School of Cinema and Television, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.	Arturo Arango Screenwriter, novelist and essayist (Cuba)

David Seidler Screenwriter (United Kingdom)	Thanks to a childhood stammer, George VI became David’s boyhood hero and inspiration for The King’s Speech for which he was awarded the Best Original Screenplay Oscar and two BAFTA’s. His career commenced with dubbing scripts for Godzilla The Monster movies. He has over 20 credits to his name including: Tucker, directed by Francis Coppola, and has been nominated for Writing Achievement by the WGA three times (winning for 'Onassis'). Current projects include ‘The Lady Who Went Too Far’ for Bedlam Productions (The King’s Speech), a two hour pilot for a new NBC series ‘Kill George Washington’, ‘The Games Of 1940’ for producer Frank Marshall, and a bio pic about fashion icon Isabella Blow for Lady Gaga.

Director, script and performance consultant Lindy Davies is currently preparing a book on her Approach to Performance: a process which is generated by language and the structure of text. She was consultant to Academy Award winner Julie Christie: films include Red Riding Hood; Away From Her; Neverland and Afterglow, and consultant to Sally Potter on The Tango Lesson. She is script Consultant to Foundry Films, Toronto, the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, the Canadian Film Centre’s Conservatory, the Australian Film Commission’s Indivision Lab and the South Australian Film Commission’s FilmLab. Lindy also has taught scriptwriting to Writer/Directors in the Masters Course, V.C.A Melbourne.	Lindy Davies Actress, director and drama teacher (Australia)

Álex Montoya Director and screenwriter (Spain)	Sundance Alumnus and a Berlinale Talent Campus Alumnus. His short films have earned more than a hundred and sixty awards in film festivals worlwide.

Shawn Slovo Screenwriter (United Kindgom / South Africa)	Shawn Slovo’s first screenplay, “A World Apart”, directed by Chris Menges, won the Jury Prize and the Ecumenical at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, then the 1988 BAFTA Best Original Screenplay Award. Since then, she has been working both in the UK and US, with directors John Madden on “Captain Corelli's Mandolin”' (2000), Phillip Noyce on “Catch a fire” (2007), and Stephen Frears on “Muhammad Ali’s greatest fight”(2013).

Yves Lavandier is a dramatist, a filmmaker and a script doctor born in 1959. He studied film at Columbia University, New York, under František Daniel, Stefan Sharff and Miloš Forman. He has worked on a number of TV series and has written and directed puppet plays, several short films and a feature film: "Yes, but...", released in 2001. He is also the author of a renowned treatise on dramatic writing, "Writing Drama". Web site	Yves Lavandier Essayist, director and screenwriter (France)