Climate Spring to partner with The Writers Lab 2025, with Gillian Anderson and Marie Kreutzer among speakers

We're delighted to announce that Climate Spring will be partnering with The Writers Lab UK and Europe 2025, with Gillian Anderson, Corsage director Marie Kreutzer and Netflix’s Mona Qureshi among the speakers and mentors for the 2025 edition.

The lab, for women and non-binary screenwriters over 40, launches in September a media law firm Lee & Thompson in London for eight screenwriters from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Austria. As part of this year's offering to lab participants, Climate Spring will be providing extensive climate narrative support for all participating screenwriters, and work with one writer to develop a climate-focused script.

The 2025 edition will also feature a new virtual panel/speaker series alongside the lab that will focus on women creators making waves in the industry. Speakers include Anderson, Kreutzer, Qureshi, director of scripted series, Netflix UK content and Censor director Prano Bailey Bond.

The Writers Lab will help participants develop projects, meet with producers and includes possible job placements in writers’ rooms.

It launched in 2015 with a US edition, expanding to the UK in 2021, and Europe in 2022, and is produced by Untamed Stories’ Julia Berg and The Writers Lab co-founders Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon. It is supported by Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman.

Previously announced partners include Screen Ireland, Women in Film TV Ireland (WFT Ie), Lee & Thompson, Screen Scotland, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Gaumont, Sony Pictures Television, All3Media International, The Austrian Film Institute, ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and Drehbuchforum Wien (Screenwriters Forum Vienna).

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Images: RICHARD PHIBBS / PAMELARUSSMANN / TIM P. WHITBY/BFI / PETER SEARLE / MARK CHAPMAN / NETFLI

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: GILLIAN ANDERSON, MARIE KREUTZER, JOY GHARORO-AKPOTOJOR, MONA QURESHI, PRANO BAILEY BOND, SALLY EL HOSAINI.