EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s National Film and Television School and local production company Popcorn Group have teamed up to launch a new writers prize for “stories with strong identities which look to shape the conversation around social and political issues in a thought-provoking way”.The inaugural NFTS Popcorn Award has been won by NFTS Screenwriting MA student Lily Seriki for her “Bridgerton-esque” TV pilot black-comedy Silly Girl, about gender, race and societal expectations in Regency England.The pilot follows two teenage girls who are meant to be mastering the performance of simpering femininity.
But Cecily is an autistic gynaecologist with no tolerance for pretence, and Olive is a mixed-race woman with explosive ADHD.
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