Phil Parker is the director of NyAC, a new film production company founded in 2006 to create a series of original, feature films. NyAC’s first five projects - Bait, Almost Jamaica, The Reluctant Orator, Innocent and Relative Desire - are currently being packaged for production in 2009 -10.

Phil is one of Europe’s most distinguished independent development consultants and has run a successful training and development consultancy, pH Screenplay, for over ten years. Clients include Aardmann Animation, Mob Films, Berlin Brandenburg Medienboard and numerous independent producers and screenwriters. Recent projects include the Oscar and Bafta winning '`Wallace and Gromit- Curse of the Ware Rabbit'; the award winning 'El Greco' and 'Terry Prachett's Hogfather'.

In 2008 'The Pearce Ssiters' scripted edited by Phil won BAFTA for best short animated film, amongst 36 other awards. 'San J' written by Joanne Leigh, and developed by Phil was selected from 2000 other screenplays to win the UK's prestigious 'Red Planet' award.

Phil is a consultant for PRIME(Berlin) working on feature film projects from across Europe. In 2007 'Prima Ballerina' from Denmark was packaged for Disney and Trust Films.

In 2008 Phil ran courses for North West Vision, and Norther film and Media and lectured in Cologne, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona and Sao Paulo.

2005 saw Phil create a low budget genre programme for Northern Film and Media involving eight new feature film writers developing screenplays. This programme was repeated in 2007/8.

In 2004 Phil script-consulted on a pan-European project developing eight feature and TV movies working with amongst others, Mogens Rukov (w.Festen) and five german film companies, including X-Filme.

In 2003/4 Phil designed and produced an ‘Introduction to Screenwriting’ course for the UK Film Council. This programme involved training over 50 tutors, who have since taught over 2000 adult students throughout the UK, who have won numerous awards. The course will go online at the Skillset website in 2009.

Phil was the founder, and the course director (until 2004) of the MA Screenwriting course at London College of Communication (formerly London College of Printing) part of the University of the Arts London. This is the most successful screenwriting course in the UK with over 180 credited screenwriters from its 250 graduates. Screenwriters from the course have won a Palme D’or, several BAFTAs, RTS awards, numerous short film festival awards, including Berlin and Toronto,, and been Oscar© nominated.

‘The Art and Science of Screenwriting’ (4th edition – Intellect Books, 2006) written by Phil is a new approach to writing and developing screenplays. Based on ‘The Creative Matrix’ this developmental theory combines six key elements of narrative - story, theme, dramatic form, plot, style and genre. This comprehensive approach is now in use by screenwriters, development executives, producers, and is widely taught throughout Europe on Masters’ programmes. ‘The Art and Science of Screenwriting’ was published in Spanish in 2003, and German in 2005.

phil.parker@phscreenplay.com