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BSSC 2012 Early Deadline Approaches

kaosfi — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:36:58 +0000

BSSC 2012 competition is now accepting submissions.

Early deadline is Friday 11th May!

Enter now and save on the submission fee. But if you are not ready to submit do not panic the final deadline is 6th July.

BSSC 2011 Winners Announced

kaosfi — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:59:57 +0000

The Readers, the Judges, the sponsors and everyone at the British Short Screenplay Competition and Kaos Films would like to congratualte the winner and the runners up of the 2011 BSSC. Well done everybody! We would also like to take this opportunity and thank all those who took part in the competition. We are grateful to you for your support - Thank you!

The winner of BSSC 2011 is:

The Conversationby Jake Saunders

USA

First runner-up

Mean Creek by Dan Goforth

USA

BSSC 2011 Runners up

Brothers by Julian Worsley

Crux by Damien Mckeating

Felix McGuire I Hate You by Robyn Blakemore

My Enemy My Friend by Tal Gurion

Pye by Amanda Sarin

The Blood Hound by Max Klein

The Debate by James Cotton

The Hit by Kiri Huxford

The Maiden by Zee Razaaq

BSSC Finalists Announced

kaosfi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:50:35 +0000

Many, many congratulations to all the writers of the following screenplays which have qualified as the finalists of the BSSC. Well done everyone!

Brothers
Butterflies are Fairies
Cassiopeia
Crux
Felix McGuire I Hate You
Holly Cahoonas!
MEAN CREEK
My Enemy My Friend
Pye
Shiny Nickels & Dirty Dimes
The Blood Hound
The Conversation
The Debate
The God Particle
The Hit
The Maiden
The Word
Two Weeks of Summer

BSSC Semi-finalists Announced!

kaosfi — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:36:59 +0000

Kaos Films and the BSSC would like to congratulate the writers of the following screenplays who have all made the semi-finalists.

Angel
Beautiful Gun
Broken
Brothers
Burt’s Used Cars
Butterflies are Fairies
Cassiopeia
Coffee and Cordite
Connection
Crash On Forest Moon
Crux
Daisy
EGADS !
EVERGREEN
Felix McGuire I Hate You
Freddy’s Guest House
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
HAIL THE CABBIE
Holly Cahoonas!
Hope and Reality
IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION
Love In Vain
MEAN CREEK
Mission I Love You
My Best Friend’s Funeral
My Enemy My Friend
Natural Causes
Parker Knoll
Pye
Shiny Nickels & Dirty Dimes
Suddenly Last Summer
Tears In The Rain
The Allowable Hours of Hanky Pank
The Blood Hound
The colour of her scream
The Conversation
The Death of Rumplestiltskin
The Debate
The God Particle
The Hit
The Maiden
The Terrorist
The Word
Two Weeks of Summer

BSSC 3rd Round Qualifiers Announced!

kaosfi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:22:03 +0000

Congratulations to all the writers of the following screenplays which have qualified for the 3rd round of the BSSC.

15 MINUTES IN THE LIFE OF JOE HAGAR
7AM
A CANTERBURY TALE
Abandoning Bliss
An Old Cry
Angel
ANIMALS
Arthur and Martin
Audrey, Fool of Grace
Beautiful Gun
Betrayal
BLACK AND BLUE
Blink
Broken
Brothers
Burt’s Used Cars
Butterflies are Fairies
Cassiopeia
CHOCOLATE BISCUITS
Christmas Ev.
Closing Thoughts
Coffee and Cordite
Combing the Lonely Sock
Community Spirit
Connection
Crash On Forest Moon
Crossing The Line
Crux
Daisy
Dead Hungry
DRIFTING
Earthly Power
EDWARD’S HEART
EGADS !
EVERGREEN
Felix McGuire I Hate You
Flaming Telepath
Freddy’s Guest House
Fresh Start Cleaning
Fullbeam
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
HAIL THE CABBIE
Hanging On
Hole in the Wall
Holly Cahoonas!
Hope and Reality
IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION
In The Dark
Joan
Jump, LOL
L.O.V.E
Lambert
Le Petit Sac Noir
Leaves of the Shepherdess
Linked
Love In Vain
Lucid
LUCKY WHITE ROAD KILL
MAIL ME, SHAKESPEARE
Marry Me
MEAN CREEK
Mission I Love You
Mr Winchester ESQ
Mr. Wiggles
Mrs Brown
My Best Friend, Her Boyfriend and Me!
My Best Friend’s Funeral
My Enemy My Friend
Names
Natural Causes
Nine Steps
No Answers In A Gun
No Offence
Notebook #11
Olde English
One Compulsive Day
Ortus
Over the Bridge
Parker Knoll
Prehistocio
Primulas’ are for Prudes
Pye
Reality Games
Red One
Rosarian
Safe Hands
Shiny Nickels & Dirty Dimes
Snow
Spare Change
Suddenly Last Summer
SWAP
Taking Pain
Tears In The Rain
The Allowable Hours of Hanky Pank
The Blood Hound
The box
The Chair
The Christmas Party
The colour of her scream
The Conversation
The Co-Pilots
The Death of Rumplestiltskin
The Debate
The Drowned Man
The Falconers
The God Particle
The Hit
The Hot Spot
The Maiden
The Other Line
The Palimpsest
The park
The Psychic
The Ridge to the River
The Surprise
The Survivor
The Tent
The Terrorist
The Trapper Boy
THE WALLET
The Word
There Can Be No Happy End
This Little Piggy
Truth Serum
Two Weeks of Summer
Vikings
Wasteland 2020
Watchers
What It’s All About
Wisdom of the Ancients
With Respect
Yom Kicker
YouTopia

BSSC 2nd Round Qualifiers Announced

kaosfi — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:05:58 +0000

The BSSC and Kaos Films are proud to announce the BSSC 2011 2nd round qualifiers. Our sincere congratulations to everyone!

13 Stations
15 MINUTES IN THE LIFE OF JOE HAGAR
7AM
A CANTERBURY TALE
A CHRISTMAS VISIT
Abandoning Bliss
Adalbert Street
Afghanistan 2026
An Old Cry
Angel
ANIMALS
Apologies
Arthur and Martin
Ash
Audrey, Fool of Grace
BABYCAKES
Back to Front
Beautiful Gun
Bert & Bob
Betrayal
Birch
BLACK AND BLUE
Blink
Broken
Brothers
Bubbles
Burt’s Used Cars
Butterflies are Fairies
CARDBOARD
Cassiopeia
Centre Stage
Charlie’s Cup of Tea
CHOCOLATE BISCUITS
Choked
Christmas Ev.
Clean-Up On Aisle Five
Clones
Closing Thoughts
Coffee and Cordite
Combing the Lonely Sock
Coming In
Community Spirit
Connection
Crash On Forest Moon
Crescendo
Crossing The Line
Crux
Daisy
Dead Hungry
Did You Order a Pizza?
DREAM DATE
Drift Away
DRIFTING
Earthly Power
EDWARD’S HEART
EGADS !
Escape the Fate
EVERGREEN
Faith
Father Saul
Fear & Trembling
Felix McGuire I Hate You
Flaming Telepath
Freddy’s Guest House
Freed from Society
Fresh Start Cleaning
Fullbeam
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Godforsaken
Good Bargain
Graceland
Gran in a Caravan
Grief Encounter
HAIL THE CABBIE
Half Past Midnight Run
Hanging On
Happy Returns
Hell in a Handbasket
Hit and Run
Hitting It Off
Hole in the Wall
Holly Cahoonas!
Homage
Hoofman
Hope and Reality
Human
Hungry
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
I’m OK and You’re OK, Computer
IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION
In The Dark
In the Fields
In waiting
Incisor, or, a dentistry metaphor of the banking system
Joan
Jump, LOL
Kaleidoscope
KASHIFAH
Keybored
KNIGHT RIDER: After Dark
L.O.V.E
La Chevelure
Lambert
Last Ride of The Carver
Last Stop
Le Petit Sac Noir
Learning the Game
Leaves of the Shepherdess
Linked
Live With The Question
Lock House
London
Los Quitados (The Taken Ones)
Love
Love in the Bang Bang
Love In Vain
Love Kills
Lower Ground
Lucid
LUCKY WHITE ROAD KILL
Lunchtime
MAIL ME, SHAKESPEARE
Marry Me
MEAN CREEK
Mind the Envy
Mission I Love You
MONKTON
MOVIE MAGIC
Mr President
Mr Winchester ESQ
Mr. Wiggles
Mrs Brown
My Best Friend, Her Boyfriend and Me!
My Best Friend’s Funeral
My Enemy My Friend
MY SON THE HIT MAN
Names
Natural Causes
Nazi
Never too late
Next to Godliness
Nine Steps
Nine-Eleven-In-Ten
No Answers In A Gun
No Offence
No, Thanks
Notebook #11
Olde English
One Compulsive Day
One Down
One for the Road
One Night Only
Online Kills
Ortus
Over the Bridge
Parker Knoll
Peacock
Performance
Petra and the Wolf
Pink Elephant
Pipe Dream
Plasticine
Polo
Poor Little Rich Kid
Prehistocio
Primulas’ are for Prudes
Pye
Reality Games
Red One
Reginald
Render me innocent
Renovation, Renovation
Rescue
Rings
RIPPLE
Rosarian
Safe Hands
Sex, Drugs and Sausage Rolls
Shiny Nickels & Dirty Dimes
Sleepover
Snow
Spare Change
Star Stricken
Stop it Jack!
Sudden Boy
Suddenly Last Summer
SWAP
Swimming with the Fishers
Synthesizer
T R U S T
Taking Pain
Tears In The Rain
The 38th Parallel
The Allowable Hours of Hanky Pank
The Artist
The Assassin Bug
The Backup
The Balance
The Blood Hound
The Board Meeting
The box
The Boy With Two Hearts
The Brother
THE CATCH
The Chair
The Christmas Party
The colour of her scream
The Conversation
The Co-Pilots
The Death of Rumplestiltskin
The Debate
The Detour
THE DICK CLUB
The Drowned Man
The Empty Chair
The Falconers
The Garden Party
The Getaway Vehicle
The Glass Tears
The God Particle
The Good King
The Gospel According to Schlyman
The Green Door
The Guest
The Hit
The Hot Spot
The Hunter
The Interview
The Invisible Woman
The Last Escape
The Lie
The Lonely Heart of the Apocalypse
The Lost
The Maiden
The Memory Palace
The Mouse
The Nest Adventure
THE NIGHT GUARD
The Other Line
The Palimpsest
The park
The Park
The Pen
The Psychic
The Ridge to the River
The Sunflowers
The Surprise
The Survivor
The Tells
The Tent
The Terrorist
THE THIEF
The Thinking Bulb
The Trapper Boy
The Twelve Minute Murder
THE WALLET
The Wide
The Wolf
THE WOLF BROTHERS
The Word
The Young Reverend
There Can Be No Happy End
This Little Piggy
Throw Away Society
Time to Go
Tolerance
Toys and Violence
TREVOR’S CHAIR
Truth Serum
Two Roads Diverged
Two Weeks of Summer
Vigilance
Vikings
War Is Over If You Want It
Wargames
Wasteland 2020
Watchers
What A Beauty!
What It’s All About
WHAT WILL BE WILL BE
White Van Nan
Why Not?
Wisdom of the Ancients
With Respect
Wrapped
Yom Kicker
YouTopia

BSSC 2011 Qualifiers Announced

kaosfi — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:56:54 +0000

The following screenplays have qualified into the first round of BSSC 2010. Congratulations to everyone who entered the competition this year.

10p²……Maybe?
13 Stations
15 MINUTES IN THE LIFE OF JOE HAGAR
7AM
A CANTERBURY TALE
A CHRISTMAS VISIT
A Day at the Races
A fine day for it
A Healthy Fear of Guns
A Stranger Found Him
Abandoning Bliss
Adalbert Street
Afghanistan 2026
Albert
All the Best Stories
An Apple for Aphrodite
An Iceberg from Kinshasa
An Old Cry
Angel
ANIMALS
Apologies
Arthur and Martin
Ash
Audrey, Fool of Grace
BABYCAKES
Back to Front
Beautiful Gun
Bella
Bent Nose
Bert & Bob
Best End
Betrayal
Bewildering Beauty
Birch
BLACK AND BLUE
Blink
Bonfire Night
Brian Smith (Deceased)
Broken
Brothers
Bubbles
Burrows
Burt’s Used Cars
Butterflies are Fairies
By any means necessary
Cadenza
CARDBOARD
Care?
Carmine
Cassiopeia
Celebrate
Centre Stage
Charlie’s Cup of Tea
CHOCOLATE BISCUITS
Choked
Christmas Ev.
Christmas Events
Clean-Up On Aisle Five
Clones
Closing Thoughts
Coffee and Cordite
Combing the Lonely Sock
Coming In
Community Spirit
Connection
Crash On Forest Moon
Crescendo
Crossing The Line
Crux
Cynthia
Daisy
Daylight
Dead Hungry
Dead Kids Playing
Deadend
Death of Life
Did You Order a Pizza?
DJ Did Nothing
Do U Eat Meat?
Don’t Make me Laugh
DREAM DATE
Drift Away
DRIFTING
Dry Ink
Earthly Power
Edie
EDWARD’S HEART
EGADS !
Eindrine’s Cure
Escape the Fate
EVERGREEN
Exit
Faith
Famulus
Father Saul
Fear & Trembling
Felix McGuire I Hate You
Finding Courage
Fishing
Flaming Telepath
Fly Away Bird
Foolish Love and the Schemes Thereof
Freddy’s Guest House
Freed from Society
Fresh Start Cleaning
From A to Z
Fullbeam
George’s House
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Godforsaken
Going To Waste
Good Bargain
Graceland
Gran in a Caravan
Grief Encounter
HAIL THE CABBIE
Half Past Midnight Run
Hanging On
Happy Returns
Hell in a Handbasket
Hit and Run
Hitting It Off
Hole in the Wall
Holly Cahoonas!
Homage
Hoofman
Hope and Reality
Human
Hungry
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
I’m OK and You’re OK, Computer
IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION
In The Dark
In the Fields
In waiting
Incisor, or, a dentistry metaphor of the banking system
Joan
Johnny’s Drugstore
Jump, LOL
Kaleidoscope
KASHIFAH
Keybored
KNIGHT RIDER: After Dark
L.O.V.E
La Chevelure
Lambert
Last Ride of The Carver
Last Stop
Le Petit Sac Noir
Learning the Game
Leaves of the Shepherdess
Linked
Live With The Question
Lock House
London
Los Quitados (The Taken Ones)
Love
Love in the Bang Bang
Love In Vain
Love Kills
Lower Ground
Lucid
LUCKY WHITE ROAD KILL
Lunchtime
MAIL ME, SHAKESPEARE
Marry Me
MEAN CREEK
Meat Your Maker
Mind the Envy
Mission I Love You
MONKTON
MOTHER LOAD
MOVIE MAGIC
Mr President
Mr Winchester ESQ
Mr. Wiggles
Mrs Brown
My Best Friend, Her Boyfriend and Me!
My Best Friend’s Funeral
My Enemy My Friend
MY SON THE HIT MAN
Names
Natural Causes
Nazi
Never too late
Next to Godliness
NINA
Nine Steps
Nine-Eleven-In-Ten
No Answers In A Gun
No Offence
No, Thanks
Noose
Notebook #11
Olde English
One Compulsive Day
One Down
One for the Road
One Night Only
Online Kills
Ortus
Over the Bridge
Parker Knoll
Peacock
Performance
Petra and the Wolf
Pink Elephant
Pipe Dream
Plasticine
Polo
Poor Little Rich Kid
Precious
Prehistocio
Pride
Primulas’ are for Prudes
Prince of Plum Street
Pye
Reality Games
Red One
Reginald
Render me innocent
Renovation, Renovation
Rescue
Rings
RIPPLE
Rosarian
Ruth Masters
Safe Hands
Salsa For The Terrified
Sex, Drugs and Sausage Rolls
Shiny Nickels & Dirty Dimes
Sleepover
Snow
So Tell Me What You Love About Me
SOLIDER LOVE
Some Legends Never Die
Sousveillance
Spare Change
Star Stricken
STATUS DOGS
Stick in the Mud
Stop it Jack!
Stray Dog
STROLLING
Sudden Boy
Suddenly Last Summer
Superstitious
SWAP
Swimming with the Fishers
Synthesizer
T R U S T
Taking Pain
Tears In The Rain
The 38th Parallel
The Address Book
The Allowable Hours of Hanky Pank
The Artist
The Assassin Bug
The Backup
The Balance
The Blood Hound
The Board Meeting
The box
The Boy With Two Hearts
The Boys
The Brother
THE CATCH
The Chair
The Christmas Party
The colour of her scream
The Conversation
The Co-Pilots
The Corner-shop
The Death of Rumplestiltskin
The Debate
The Detour
THE DICK CLUB
The Drowned Man
The Empty Chair
The Falconers
The Figure
The Fisherman’s Daughter
The Garden Party
The Getaway Vehicle
The Glass Tears
The God Particle
The Good King
The Gospel According to Frank
The Gospel According to Schlyman
The Green Door
The Guest
The Hit
The Hot Spot
The Hunter
The Inspector
The Interview
The Invisible Woman
The Last Escape
The Lie
The Lonely Heart of the Apocalypse
The Lost
The Maiden
The Making Of Much Ado About Nothing
THE MAN WHO LIED
The Memory Palace
The Mouse
The Nest Adventure
THE NIGHT GUARD
The Other Line
The Palimpsest
The park
The Park
The Pen
The Point of Balance is the Heart
The Psychic
The Ridge to the River
The Sunflowers
The Surprise
The Survivor
The Tells
The Tent
The Terrorist
THE THIEF
The Thinking Bulb
The Trapper Boy
The Twelve Minute Murder
THE WALLET
The Wide
The Wolf
THE WOLF BROTHERS
The Word
The World Is Not For Me
The Young Reverend
There Can Be No Happy End
This is Daniel Merlich
This Little Piggy
Through The Eyes of a Grown-up Child
Throw Away Society
Time to Go
Tolerance
Toys and Violence
TREVOR’S CHAIR
Truth Serum
Two Roads Diverged
Two Weeks of Summer
Urban Voodoo
Vigilance
Vikings
War Is Over If You Want It
Wargames
Wasteland 2020
Watchers
What A Beauty!
What It’s All About
WHAT WILL BE WILL BE
What Would Charlie Sheen Do?
White Van Nan
Why Not?
Wisdom of the Ancients
With Respect
Wrapped
Yom Kicker
YouTopia

Watch BSSC Winner The Handyman

kaosfi — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:06:48 +0000

Due to the huge demand for the BSSC winning DVDs we came to the conclusion that we just cannot cope with the production needs. So we have released the 2002 BSSC winner THE HANDYMAN on youtube. Written by Wisconsin writer Tom Beach, this multi-award winning film stars the gorgeous Greta Scacchi and is directed by Simon Rumley.

The Kaos Films youtube channel is kaosfilmsuk or just click on this link The Handyman Available to view now.

We’ve removed the option to leave comments because some dunderhead gave away the ending - but feel free to let us know what you think by emailing us.

Don’t forget the Kaos Films Showreel is available to view in the Screenning Room - click on the tab above right.

View Kaos Films Showreel

kaosfi — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:05:34 +0000

Kaos Films showreel is now being screened in the Screeningroom.

Just click on the Screeningroom tab above on the right.

Please feel free to send us your feedback.

BSSC Final Deadline 31st July

kaosfi — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:07:01 +0000

The BSSC early deadline is now closed. Well done to everyone who managed to get their submissions in by midnight last night.

Don’t panic if you didn’t. The Final Deadline for the competition is 31st July 2011. Plenty of time!